Morrigan Stark
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Huh? Slow? It's anything but. Combat is very fast paced, and the character can dash pretty quickly (and can eventually chain three dashes). It's one of the last games I'd ever call "slow"...
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Valdis Story: Abyssal City on Steam
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Huh? Slow? It's anything but. Combat is very fast paced, and the character can dash pretty quickly (and can eventually chain three dashes). It's one of the last games I'd ever call "slow"...
Sentenza
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Patch notes:
Update v1.0.0.22 contains a number of optimization improvements, bug fixes, and some new content. Those of you who were using the IGPU beta can now use the main branch as this update should resolve most of those issues. Changes in this version are as follows.
Fixed
Various retry bugs.
Scene bug when Finding Reina playing as Wyatt.
Divine decoy consumed double the mana cost displayed when leveled up.
Fate Roulette buffs now properly scale with Finisher level.
Bug that prevented Warp Blade from activating properly.
Bug that displayed incorrect blocking sprite on some enemies
Bug that set [R] as skill cancel for Keyboards
Many of the issues on devices with integrated graphics.
Bug with assist not working if the mana heater in Ishk breaks down.
A crash that could occur when some enemies bumped into spike traps.
Arrows now properly activate Black Blessing and Holy Order.
Changed
Tunnel Vision Attack damage max increased to 30.
Tunnel Vision stats to +2 Agi / +2 Luck.
Highlander Hood headcount max reduced to 75.
Highlander Hood stats to +2 Str / +2 Int.
Fate Roulette will overwrite previously existing Fate Buffs.
Increased accuracy of [Lucky Storm] from fate Roulette finisher.
+1 Agi on Templar Bracer to +1 Mana Steal.
Fighters Bandages now also grants weapon effects to Punch/Kick.
Cleric Vestments special to [Spells gain 0.5 S.Ruin for every 1% of Max Mp missing].
Removed level bonus from Goibniu mode scoring.
Bonus points added for individual time/combat/potion Boss ratings in Goibniu mode.
Placement of Deadmans Fury in the Ziggurat. Added new treasure to the ziggurat.
Life Blade doesn't drain Hp if [Focus Mode] is active.
Added
Various optimization improvements
Sound to dialogue scroll.
New Boss the Feral Manawar.
New Boss True Anemone.
Mesmer now also offers Forget Training to re-assign stat points.
Option to enable Direct Input gamepads from main menu.
New enemy type Demon Widow.
PandaPedinte
Member
Nice update.
God damn, simply surviving through Eye of Myrgato fight on Hard is a pain on my Int caster Reina, not to mention S-ranking it.
Tried all types of tactics, but in the end, breaking the runes with the staff and then spamming Power Geyser with the reckoning affliction and the anti-demigod accessory brought the quick victory I needed. 1k+ damage per hit, and this is the first fight where I straight up had my healing spell equipped instead of any damage buffs. Even with buffs my melee damage was way too low in this particular fight to get results
Tried all types of tactics, but in the end, breaking the runes with the staff and then spamming Power Geyser with the reckoning affliction and the anti-demigod accessory brought the quick victory I needed. 1k+ damage per hit, and this is the first fight where I straight up had my healing spell equipped instead of any damage buffs. Even with buffs my melee damage was way too low in this particular fight to get results
PandaPedinte
Member
Any tips in how to beat the Spider thing in the Ziggurat? That thing is kicking my ass with her stupid stuns, and one of her attack can send you flying through the room so you may end landing in the room.
Yeah, I don't know. I booted it up again, moved around a little, and closed and uninstalled it. I don't know why, it has all the elements that I should like about a game - it's basically the game I've been building in my head for ages - but I just don't enjoy playing it. I don't really know why.
Ah well.
Ah well.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Do you have vsync enabled somewhere?
OK, looks like I fixed it now. I don't know if the system reboot or disabling MSI Afterburner did the trick, but I won't complain about it.
It's too late to give you any hints probably, but I'll leave this here for other people:
The widow mini-boss in Ziggurat is easily interrupted by even your weakest spells. First kill the closest gun-wielding demon, then stay in one place. Whenever the widow lowers to the floor in order to attack you, cast a side spell and a few attacks before she goes away. Rinse and repeat until dead. She shouldn't get a single opportunity to attack once the demon's dealt with.
If you've been to Engineer's Palace, infinite her to death with a few quick hits followed by Lightning Chain
linko9
Member
Fancy seeing this topic, I actually played through this a few weeks ago. I ended up liking it quite a bit. It's a well done Castlevania-style game that manages to be have its own feel in terms of gameplay and aesthetics. It took a while to click with me, but once it did, the control of your character just felt really good. It's one of those games where you really feel accomplished in learning how to play it well. There are some rough edges, and probably too many superfluous elements, but overall a really tightly produced game. Hope the devs keep making this sort of game.
The graphics option lowers the framerate to 30 if you set it to low, so that's also a possible reason.
PandaPedinte
Member
Thank you!
Hey, anyone know the best way to strengthen my character? I have to get the valdis mark and divine dust. I finally figured out I have to beat two bosses to get the keys to reach the respective areas...but the jump in difficulty for the bosses is insane. I literally do a few points damage to one of them (blue one).
The game has had its hard moments up until now, but overall difficulty has been rather moderate to easy. There is no way i'll be able to beat these latest bosses, though.
thanks
The game has had its hard moments up until now, but overall difficulty has been rather moderate to easy. There is no way i'll be able to beat these latest bosses, though.
thanks
The blue and red Eye bosses? They're optional superbosses.
The only boss that you need to beat to get a key (Demon Key) is guarded by a rematch with previous bosses you've fought before, they're in the mines.
Angel Key is just guarded by a bunch of angels in the sewers.
lol. Shit. When I was looking at the map I noticed that the area those bosses were in glowed with corresponding colours, so I assumed they had the keys. Thanks.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Valdis Story is getting another awesome update real soon!
http://endlessfluff.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/valdis-story-update/
http://endlessfluff.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/valdis-story-update/
PandaPedinte
Member
Valdis Story is getting another awesome update real soon!
http://endlessfluff.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/valdis-story-update/
Thats cool some day ago I was thinking when the one of the new characters could be releasing.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
You know what would be nice.
If YouTube worked so I can actually listen to the music.
Oh yeah, can't wait until they have Twitch. :\
Got it for 2.5$ at the GOG summer sale without really knowing much about it.
I just beat it and I have to say that this is a superb Metroidvania game that does some things better than the best of the genre. The combat mechanics are the best I've ever seen in such game, the music is phenomenal and the graphics are top notch!
The only gripes I had with it is the platforming which is a bit stiff and unreliable(nothing game breaking though), and the last hour of the game which had some bad boss designs(no one likes a boss that heals itself!!) and a couple of difficulty spikes!
Go get it!
I just beat it and I have to say that this is a superb Metroidvania game that does some things better than the best of the genre. The combat mechanics are the best I've ever seen in such game, the music is phenomenal and the graphics are top notch!
The only gripes I had with it is the platforming which is a bit stiff and unreliable(nothing game breaking though), and the last hour of the game which had some bad boss designs(no one likes a boss that heals itself!!) and a couple of difficulty spikes!
Go get it!
Vladyn still at playtesting phase apparently, but most importantly, they revealed Zack Parrish's new song Exhume. I have a feeling the new boss is going to be wonderfully creepy
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Can't wait for the new character. More excuses to play this is always a good thing
This really is one of the best games in it's genre
It'd be a bad move to weasel out of kickstarter promises. They revealed plans to make a 3rd and 4th character when they had reached 20k (8k original goal), and they got funding up to 49k with the campaign
mentallyinept
Banned
I backed this on kickstarter, I was not disappointed with the final game.
Some of the platforming puzzles are just brutal, that or I just suck. :-/
Some of the platforming puzzles are just brutal, that or I just suck. :-/
robotzombie
Member
i make so few topics that it is really weird when one of them gets bumped...
that being said, I was just talking to my friend the other day wondering about when the hell the other two characters are coming
that being said, I was just talking to my friend the other day wondering about when the hell the other two characters are coming
Valdis Story on sale at GOG. Either $6 by itself or $8.21 in a bundle
That's great. can't wait to play it again. Hope more people who haven't played it give it a chance as well.
I'm just glad that with that update (and some much smaller bugfixes) EndlessFluff Games will be able to properly wrap up Valdis Story as feature&content complete and move on to other projects. There's talent in that small (2-person?) team and I'd like to finally see it not honour bound to updating a game that released 18 months ago.
uncredited male
Member
Patch? Patch! Patch!
Awwwwww. Dammit.
Soon.
Awwwwww. Dammit.
Soon.
HalfwayOrb
Member
I have it on my Steam account untouched since last year. Maybe it's time to play it.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
holy shit time to reinstall
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Holy shit @ those additions... really nice for a free update. :O I gotta revisit this game, I beat it with Reina a while ago but barely played with the dude (forgot his name).
Been waiting for this for a long time. I love this game.
Not having played in about a year, Vladyn was a bit confusing. He starts in the second town and his first boss is the poison bubble guy. But he's neat. More pet-focused than I was expecting.
Gilda seems a lot better for people coming back to the game after a long absence, since she starts in the same place as the other two characters. She's a lot of fun - very close-range combo-oriented like Reina, with lots of mana management and swapping between magic types mid-combo.
Not having played in about a year, Vladyn was a bit confusing. He starts in the second town and his first boss is the poison bubble guy. But he's neat. More pet-focused than I was expecting.
Gilda seems a lot better for people coming back to the game after a long absence, since she starts in the same place as the other two characters. She's a lot of fun - very close-range combo-oriented like Reina, with lots of mana management and swapping between magic types mid-combo.
Oh woooow, Gilda changes a lot of systems in this game that Reina and Wyatt had in common
Instead of a block, you get a guardbreaking, launching, magic burst that takes mana and changes you magic souls on the fly. So it's basically an attack and a soul switch.
In fact, every one of her moves take mana if she has any, but to counter that, the button you press to use magic on other characters, actually charges mana on her instead.
Reina was a hybrid. Gilda is a straight up melee mage. She also has some interesting skills on the melee tree that make her stronger as she hoards specific types of monster drops in inventory, up to 25 pieces. Stuff like Polished Stones and whatnot.
Instead of Up/Side/Down/Air, she has Light/Heavy/Switch/AirHeavy. She has no separate spells as far as I know, everything is built as part of her melee move set.
She starts with poison and unholy element souls. Kinda gives her a disadvantage against demons but on hard it's not too bad.
This is what you can do with her after getting first Skill Cancel, apologies for Gifcam ruining it with visible greenscreen
I do the soul switch midair and change from unholy to poison. Even my basic melee changes element
Instead of a block, you get a guardbreaking, launching, magic burst that takes mana and changes you magic souls on the fly. So it's basically an attack and a soul switch.
In fact, every one of her moves take mana if she has any, but to counter that, the button you press to use magic on other characters, actually charges mana on her instead.
Reina was a hybrid. Gilda is a straight up melee mage. She also has some interesting skills on the melee tree that make her stronger as she hoards specific types of monster drops in inventory, up to 25 pieces. Stuff like Polished Stones and whatnot.
Instead of Up/Side/Down/Air, she has Light/Heavy/Switch/AirHeavy. She has no separate spells as far as I know, everything is built as part of her melee move set.
She starts with poison and unholy element souls. Kinda gives her a disadvantage against demons but on hard it's not too bad.
This is what you can do with her after getting first Skill Cancel, apologies for Gifcam ruining it with visible greenscreen
I do the soul switch midair and change from unholy to poison. Even my basic melee changes element
I'm thinking about going Luck-build with Gilda. She already has so many direct Luck-based skills in her trees, and skills based on hoarding monster drops, AND she lacks any heals so I'm sorta relying on Angel/Demon/Feral Souls dropping to recover it a bit.
Edit: btw, Gilda can totally bypass the platforming part of the ice boss fight because of her innate double-jump. It further trivializes the already easy fight, not to mention her incredible airtime with air comboes
Anyway, new update, mainly addressing the bugs introduced by the content patch
Edit: btw, Gilda can totally bypass the platforming part of the ice boss fight because of her innate double-jump. It further trivializes the already easy fight, not to mention her incredible airtime with air comboes
Anyway, new update, mainly addressing the bugs introduced by the content patch
I felt kind of forced into Int because of her skill that adds 1/4 of your Int to all your other stats, though early on I put some points into Luck for her hoarding skills (respecced later). That skill also applies before Jester's Watch. She heals from the leech skill in the same tree. S-ranking all the bosses on Godslayer wasn't all that difficult with that setup, except for Eye of Myrgato. IIRC I topped out around 180 Mag putting all my points into Int and 150 putting all my points into Luck, with Jester's Watch equipped.
Vladyn seems a lot more flexible between Agi and Luck, although presumably Luck explodes as you keep going because of his Ancient Coin skill. I don't know if his minions scale with Int, but they're pretty strong too.
S-ranking Myrgato consistently is tough on any build
I gotta give major props to Endless Fluff for remaking a lot of the early enemies and tweaking a lot of the old areas. For one, saving in Guardian Temple doesn't cause you to get stuck there until you beat the boss, you seem to be able to walljump back out
The remade demon ranged units have caused Abandoned Gardens and Guardian Temple to become much tougher than before, which I think is not the best direction to take since they are already tough enough pre-patch. I think they could have tweaked the enemy placements to make them a little less clever and effective.
2 flamethrower demons next to each other is a bit much because they're basically guarding each other with high damage multi-hit attacks that cause burn affliction
Oh sweet! It took forever but it finally happened. Glad the devs stuck by this despite the burnout. Hope they can move on to new projects now, I've liked all the games they've made.
Say, how does Teachings of the Lifeblade work now? I remember annihilating everything with my full AGI near-infinite Focus mode Reina build.
Say, how does Teachings of the Lifeblade work now? I remember annihilating everything with my full AGI near-infinite Focus mode Reina build.