Hardcore Permadeath Challenge (Inspired by Barry)

Inspired by The Many Death of Barry, doing pretty much the same thing ans seeing how long I last
Original thread - http://www.gaslampgames.com/forum/discussion/183/the-many-deaths-of-barry#Item_11

My episodes will be listed seperately on this thread :

Jon I - http://youtu.be/3Xr97KH9EnY
Jon II Part I - http://youtu.be/V9k1O7Ndtbs
Jon II Part II - http://youtu.be/xY0rRlmfzFo
Jon III - http://youtu.be/S-TEWxtsQyk
Jon IV - http://youtu.be/HtDJkYuAvuA
Jon V Part I - http://youtu.be/jBHd_C-Z-Wo
Jon V Part II - http://youtu.be/jkxfh0-qkCw
Jon VI Part I - http://youtu.be/sM55AD5Gt0A
Jon VI Part II - http://youtu.be/J6Jv06V2UEQ
Jon VII - http://youtu.be/8mrOy-zSzxc
Jon VIII Part I - http://youtu.be/IhdJERdG2IU
Jon VIII Part II - http://youtu.be/LFcq4893C_M
Jon VIII Part III - http://youtu.be/vWjOV8Tth2w
Jon VIII Part IV - http://youtu.be/ahe6TgCuvCM
Jon VIII Part V - http://youtu.be/aGiOgTt3moI
Jon VIII Part VI - http://youtu.be/nQ5N7sVtaUA
Jon VIII Part VII - http://youtu.be/AgKBsG8OYM
Jon VIII Part VIII - http://youtu.be/GxYPFGsV8M
Jon IX Part I - http://youtu.be/aBpgceBfGeU
Jon IX Part II - http://youtu.be/-hwgGIv47CE
Jon IX Part III - http://youtu.be/hR2umf_pWQo
Jon X Part I - http://youtu.be/oqCuSjHvBGM
Jon X Part II - http://youtu.be/Qsie7F1HwVA

 

Part III is up (see above) I havent tried wit the new patch yet, qanything I need to be aware of before filming?

 

Part IV is up. Its not going to take too much of your time haha

 

Jon V Part I is up, getting better at this Part II will be up shortly.

 

Haha, random skills! If you could win the game like that it'd be something else!

Something Ive noticed you ought to do... When facing multiple enemies you need to position yourself in narrow one tile space so you only receive attack of one enemy at a time. Also stops up the gap so u can use a crowd control spell against that one enemy and block the rest of them (especially helpful when retreating from monster zoos).

Im on permadeath going rogue at the moment. Non-random skill though of course.

Got a good skill loadout (psionics, dual wield, maces, artful dodger, assassination, smithing, archaeology) and am doing ok after spending a lot of time on the first levels spawning enemies (rapid fire spacebar) and leveling up.

I wouldnt record it because in order to do well and survive you have to spend loads of time just spawning enemies and cycling through item modifiers with archaeology ability, crafting items, etc.

 

dude you totally forgot to loot the bookcase lol, the flipflops were behind the case XD

 

Jon V Part II is up, enjoy

 

Annnd Jon VI Part I is up too (keeping the momentum going, wonder how many Jons there will be before we kill Dredmor, and how many people are hardcore enough to watch my vids till then )

 

It's good that you're posting these up fast, so i always have something to watch .

 

Well Pecka, its your lucky day because I've just put up Jon VI Part II

 

Jon VII is up (it wont take you long to watch, lol)

 

You should use doors and close them if you see to much enemies and such.Jon VII could have survived longer if you closed the doot at 5:49-5:50.

 

So I splurged today and uploaded EIGHT more videos! Please enjoy

 

Liking the series so far! Have some tips, free of charge:

1) When you have a character with low Trap Sight or Trap Affinity, use Click to Move instead of the arrow keys or WASD. Left-clicking on the screen will cause your character to walk to that space. You can stop movement (if you see enemies, for instance) by hitting spacebar or pretty much any menu hotkey (I for inventory, etc). While your guy is "auto-walking", the AI will avoid traps like the plague, even if you can't even see them yet. It's a huge help on the lower levels when food is low and HP is low and Trap stats are low, but the quantity of traps encountered is most definitely NOT low.

2) The Zodiacal Wand, in case you get a Wand character again, cures Curses on your character. Basically, it removes most any debuff that isn't disease/acid/poison. Not terribly helpful, but that Wand + Necronominomics might help take the edge off the curses you inflict on yourself.

3) If you ever get a skill like Knightly Leap or Norweigan Axenado that only works on specific squares, you can hold down right-click to see the "radius" of the spell displayed in yellow and red on the dungeon floor. Mouseover where you want it to go off and then let go of right-click to execute.

4) You completely glossed over the Bronze Breastplate on that Crafting Jon character (Jon V I think it was). You made the useless Bronze Greaves and you could have replaced your Robe with some actual armor.

That's all for now. Gotta see how this "Jon VIII" character is going to do

 

Additional Tips:

5) You can heal your pets by picking up food/potion items and dropping them onto your pet.

6) Learn what fungus can do. You could have avoided a couple of your deaths with a handy Inky Hoglantern or Greedy Blungecap which you sold instead of saving.

7) Save your mana for tough situations, then spam spells like crazy to win those situations.

8) Use more Happy Dancing!

 

I cant watch the new videos getting "Not Found" Error

 

Ditto. Jon VIII vids aren't available.

 

ARGH sorry I put up the wrong links! Jon IX is now up, please enjoy and Im sorry for the problems with the links.

 

I want to second the "Use your Fungi dammit!" sentiment. Fungus are like alternate Potions - the only one that's bad is Mudwen. As for the others:

The Inky Hoglantern makes you invisible for about 7 rounds.
Fairywodger gives you moderate Health Regen for several turns.
Lobstermane Fungus gives you a little Stubborness and Armor Absorb for 5 hits.
Grunge Ear gives you 1 Resist All for about 80 turns.
Night Cap is a Mana Potion in fungal form.
Fell Truffle gives you some minor melee buffs for a dozen or so turns.
Plumber's Agaric gives you 3 Burliness (pretty useless TBH) for 50-ish turns.
Azure Mob Bonnet adds 3 Sagacity for a bit.
Greedy Blungecap gives you lifesteal for a dozen (or so) turns, but I'm not sure if it stacks with Vampirism.
Lastly, you can "eat" an Odious Puffball to acquire 3 Puffballs, which are thrown weapons that create a large Confusion Gas cloud.

Great run with Jon VIII, though. Very entertaining vids

Advice for next time: don't pick a choke point to fight the Zoo in that has a dead-end behind it. Blow up the map and look for a good place to flee to before you start moving or fighting anything. Also, if you flee a few rooms away and then find a choke point, some of the monsters will forget about you and stay in the Zoo, meaning you'll get a breather at some point.

 

2nd part of Jon IX is up!