![]() Once you get these things, or at least most of them, The first half of the dungeon is your playground. ![]() Here, I see a squad of "Mordor orcs" coming through the doorway.Ģ. The intelligence delivered by telepathy and a blindfold was vital to my ascension. Of these, poison resistance is probably the most important, so you don't have to worry about what you eat, and thus don't have to worry about starving. Immediately work towards these at the outset. A character with greater than 17 strength or dexterity, more than 70 hit points, less than -10 armor class, telepathy, poison resistance, a blindfold, a decent stock of throwing weapons, and a unicorn horn is essentially invincible for the first 25 levels. I've been thinking about what I'd say to ensure that 2012 Chet really gets the game, and this is what I've come up with:ġ. I wish I could send comments back in time to myself. Reading over my old NetHack postings makes me cringe a bit. Many commenters had been explaining these realities about the game for the entire year, but there's a difference between "knowing" something and "getting" it. These strike me as insane the same way that ever ascending at all struck me as insane a month ago.) (Maybe if I kept at it, I'd get so good that I'd have to play with " conducts" like never eating meat or never killing another creature directly. It seems absurd to say this only a few weeks after comparing myself to a monkey who would never ascend given infinite time, but now that I've won, now that I know how the entire dungeon maps out, now that I realize what's possible and how to do it, I think I could ascend (in this version, at least) at least once every 20 characters. Today, I accomplished it while screwing around just to take screen shots for this posting. Last year, blithely getting to character level 10 and dungeon level 13 would have seemed unthinkable. Now when am I going to die?" But now that I've won, and I can "see" the game in its totality, it doesn't seem that hard. My brain rendered every new achievement as, "Okay, I've reached the highest level I've ever achieved. While I was doing pushups, every time I hit a new record-10, say-my mind interpreted it as "the most I'm able to do right now, and perhaps the most I'll ever be able to do." But when I hit that goal of 20, 10 just became "the halfway point." Essentially the same thing happened in NetHack.
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