Poll of the Day > UnderMine and random characters/names

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I cannot tell you how important it is to be able to pick how your character looks, their gender, and their name. My God. I had the perfect cute girl brunette in red with a cool name and she died. Then I learn it randomizes it every time.

Just my luck. Now I can't even remember the name or the seed and the share video doesn't have the info anymore on PS4. Grrr!

Just let us pick our own look. This was so infuriating on early MMOs like EverQuest when you wanted to be a halfling, but only had a few choice of classes per race.

It's like things start austere and slowly get more free over time. The every once in a while a hardass comes along and takes us right back to his prison.

Let.
Me.
Be.
Me

omg stop making me some doodie head with a mustache! I don't want to actually LOOK like a miner. I want to be a cute girl!

Ah, so this is like DwarfFortress where every character has a randomized look and backstory?

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Ok so after trying 100 times, I figured out that if you click play right as the character in the line is coming up to the mine, it will choose that one, but randomize the name. So now I'm just getting a name that doesn't sound wonky.

My God, I'd give anything to be one of those people that doesn't care about this stuff. This and my ocd has made start characters in games take soo long. Hell, I restart Elder Scrolls games like 10 times before I get one I like. I'm so damn picky it's ridiculous.

Straughan posted...

Ok so after trying 100 times, I figured out that if you click play right as the character in the line is coming up to the mine, it will choose that one, but randomize the name. So now I'm just getting a name that doesn't sound wonky.

My God, I'd give anything to be one of those people that doesn't care about this stuff. This and my ocd has made start characters in games take soo long. Hell, I restart Elder Scrolls games like 10 times before I get one I like. I'm so damn picky it's ridiculous.

I hated making characters in oblivion. The lighting was awful. Id ger out of the prison so many times to realize my character looked like shit.

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Ive played many dozens of hours of Undermine and at no point has this bothered me in the slightest

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mooreandrew58 posted...

I hated making characters in oblivion. The lighting was awful. Id ger out of the prison so many times to realize my character looked like shit.

Yes, I can relate. I had to have just the right tan. I wanted a brown but reddish tan on my He-Man type guy. I'd get out of the sewers and pan around in 3rd person to make sure everything looked right.

At least I'm not the only one lol

Mead posted...

Ive played many dozens of hours of Undermine and at no point has this bothered me in the slightest

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Finally got one I want after getting back home. She could be a bit more tan, but I can fix that later with a mirror. Luna is a cute name. A lot better than the dumb rando ones like Laydy or Jullilia or Magan or Skyan or Doreb. Like wtf. lol Evice Elizphine and Erope were others. Just no. I take pride in my little characters. I like them to look a certain way. Now I just have to figure out how not to die. I backed the save up just in case.

https://i.imgur.com/oWueKQV.jpg

You know you can use the mirror to change the appearance, right? As for the name, theres actually a chart that is used to make the names
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Lokarin posted...

Ah, so this is like DwarfFortress where every character has a randomized look and backstory?

they dont really have backstories at all I dont think on Undermine. Theyre all just fodder peasants drafted into the mines one after the other

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Which was pretty accurate back in the medieval age. They would get you to wear pocket less trousers and if you had silver dust in your pants in anyway, you could be punished. Working in previous metal and gem mining has a pretty horrible history. In some respects it's still practiced that way today. Any gold processing plant is sealed and strictly enforced when it comes to what you can bring in and take out of there. They won't even let you have a speck of dust. Greedy bastards.

What the hell is up with this game? I just crafted some popcorn and that little thieving slime bastard took it after it popped off of Wayland. Wtf is up with this game and penalties. Hell, it's almost as bad as Darkest Dungeon. And they've got that survival ice town game where you mostly die too. Wtf is up with these sadistic games lately? I almost feel like I'm back in the old NES days where when I died I had to start all over.

At least it's not taking a quarter each time. Geez.

Is this game preparing me for the dreary future earth where we all live in Stalinkas and thank our government for our daily pittance of breadcrumbs? lol just shoot me now if so

I think they do the stealing mechanic to keep players from buying certain item combos together to break the game or to just add extra challenge to obtaining the item

Like many other roguelites though the game is about as exploitable as it is difficult. I remember I had a few runs where I got that popcorn power up along with the one that makes gold explode when it hits the ground, which is just one of many really wild combos that can really bust the game open

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Straughan posted...

Yes, I can relate. I had to have just the right tan. I wanted a brown but reddish tan on my He-Man type guy. I'd get out of the sewers and pan around in 3rd person to make sure everything looked right.

At least I'm not the only one lol

Yeah like once I was trying to make a dark seducer using a dark elf since the armor was obtainable and that took so many attempts to get the skin color right

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I also would like why the hell I have some fascination with mining and gold? Precious gems too. I've never been a miner. My family weren't miners. Yet I love Minecraft and any mining type game. And why the hell am I like a moth to the flame for gold? It's just a yellow orangey metal. I think there's something programmed in us to love gold or something.

Part of it is probably that so many precious metals and gemstones look very visually unique compared to other things in the world. They are attention grabbers just on their objective appearance and few things glimmer quite the way that gold does.

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You can only take the first crafted item into the mines with you. If you craft more, you can find it in the mines, but you cant take it in with you on that run. So, its better to craft one items and one potion each run. And try to get the ones that go well with each other
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Yeah, I got over myself and learned the game. Reminds me of Crypt of the Necromancer, only easier. If I had to change anything, I'd add the ability to make a mining team you could do extra things with as well as a canary room.

I'd love if they would add some secondary fun rpg maintenance elements into the game like mobile games have. I like harvesting, crafting, feeding pets, gearing things. They could add all that kinda stuff to this game and sell you cosmetics and monetize the game.

No real complaints though. I can just tell I'll probably get bored of it quicker than I'd like to. Trying to make it to Tales of Arise before I buy anything else.

Straughan posted...

Crypt of the Necromancer

I think you mean Crypt of the Necrodancer.

And theres are both Roguelikes, so yeah

I wish have added multiplayer. Haha. Thats what I would change. Either way, its really fun
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I even told myself to make sure I didn't let autocorrect or anything make it mancer instead of dancer. I literally thought about it and still just ...

Anywho, I'll probably do it again. Even on this post to make myself look even more foolish. But yeah I got past the first boss and got into that keyed dungeon. Got about 2 to 3 levels of upgrades now.

Omg I just beat that boss with all the lightning orbs. Holy shit, that was intense.

Yeah that boss can have a lot going on

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I finally died on the next healer/knight guarded entrance where a bunch of bugs shooting green poison killed me. I had like 20k 20 relic 10 curses. Found Arkanos' book and got a new pet.

Bought the two health item more effective upgrades new bombs and some other stuff. The only reason I got that far was because I gave some bard all my cash (1007gp at the time) and he offered me 3 circles of relics. I chose the meat cleaver one that randomly drops meat on kill. I knew that would keep me alive.

I probably lost and refilled my health bar 10 times that run.

I get some good combo runs. Like when I had the cleaver, the stove, and the Buddha statue all together, and stuff like that

And weirdly enough, the pet I normally use for runs in the canary. And I have almost all of them
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Once that canary is level 3, those pilfer slimes get told real quick they're wearing the wrong shoes for this dance club. I still bat them out of the park for a home runs to keep up my practice. A couple of the bomb ones actually opened secret tunnels for me last run.

Now Im bummed this game is leaving gamepass. Guess I need to just buy it

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I bought it for $19.99 on PSN
Marenian Tavern Story before it for $9.99

For some reason I am back on 2D games and Minecraft again. I never can figure me out.

Straughan posted...

I bought it for $19.99 on PSN
Marenian Tavern Story before it for $9.99

For some reason I am back on 2D games and Minecraft again. I never can figure me out.

Have you tried out Hades?

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No, not yet. I'll check it out. I saw the ad for it. I'm trying not to create a backlog again. I abandoned my old one and pretended not to care. It's working so far.

Edit: Just pre-ordered it for the 13th after watching the IGN review. Yeah, that will be worth $25 easy. I see it came out on the Switch almost a year ago.

They just released a 1.02 update for Playstation's UnderMine. Single patch note that says, "Fixed an issue that could cause lost progress when loading back to the Hub."

Reminds me of an issue the PlayStation Forager by HopFrog or whatever where you could get far then when you'd exit a building, the damn game would crash and you'd reload as if you just started a new game and the save file was already overwritten. So you had to constantly back up your save for a long time.

I can only imagine how pissed the few people were that lost their progress on this game. I imagine a few of them had some good runs right before. Totally gone.

Hell, that'll make some people quit on the spot. Glad that never happened to me with this game.

Tbh, while losing a save is never fun, it might not have been so bad for this game
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Well, considering it took me 3 times to figure out how to beat the 3rd boss. I guess the practice does stay with you. I still hate those summoners, the rock throwers and the first time that damn knife guy who disappears and reappears. Omg.

Watching someone play this would kinda spoil it. At least for me. I wanted to watch a no hit run, but didn't want to see the bosses before I got to them myself.

The third boss is the hardest for me. The 4th boss is the easiest (Probably because of all the items I have). The last boss depends on the items. If I have a bunch of good bomb stuff, I can usually do pretty well. Like 3o seconds well... Haha...
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Welp, I had a good run going with my favorite relic Mjolnir with super throw speed, I diededed to the final boss. He had like 1 HP left too.

https://i.imgur.com/YmQlsEL.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/KcdsJ1x.jpg

Bomb power ups are best for the last boss. Like having the bomb suit and using bombuska or something
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Ok, I did what you said and beat it. It literally took one of those Russian doll bombs on his face and that baddie daddy had all he could handle. I had that relic where it adds to bomb damage permanently with each bomb kill and by the final boss, I had like +385 lolol


https://i.imgur.com/tV4QMzw.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JW4IxBY.jpg
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It took me 48 tries to beat the game. What a loser. I should just delete it and not be allowed to see the rest. I bet when I was a kid I could've done it in 20 runs. Imagine getting worse at video games and being a gamer your whole life.

https://i.imgur.com/NRWyPoZ.jpg

Straughan posted...

It took me 48 tries to beat the game. What a loser. I should just delete it and not be allowed to see the rest. I bet when I was a kid I could've done it in 20 runs. Imagine getting worse at video games and being a gamer your whole life.

https://i.imgur.com/NRWyPoZ.jpg

I feel that. Attempted the original pokemon games a few years back and was shocked I was able to beat them as a kid.

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Straughan posted...

Ok, I did what you said and beat it. It literally took one of those Russian doll bombs on his face and that baddie daddy had all he could handle. I had that relic where it adds to bomb damage permanently with each bomb kill and by the final boss, I had like +385 lolol


https://i.imgur.com/tV4QMzw.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/JW4IxBY.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6RFNghS.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/sY9vhfw.jpg

Yeah. One of the easiest ways to beat him. Now you still have to to the final battle. Against the last boss.
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I did another run and got some weird combos of relics and ended up rich by the end. More than half a million gold. Those rocks to gold bombs are insanity in those brick puzzle rooms. I swear the pilferers just stand there in shock hahaha.

https://i.imgur.com/HJzEKKM.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/QgNMs9u.jpg

Aaaaand I bought everything now. I guess I don't need to worry about gold anymore.

oh and yeah I beat Din. Took me 3 tries. Those stupid hands.

There is another reason to worry about gold. Its for the pilfer king or queen or whatever
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Link, do you have any advice on how I should handle the pilfer rapport buff from the 100k tribute fountain? It's used for that final room, but I hear that if you die and lose it, you can't get the buff ever again. So one attempt per save file unless backed up and scummed. Somehow that sounds false to me. Why would the developer only give you one chance for something like that? That's just going to piss people off. That can't be true. Can it? Either way, I hear I should do other stuff in othermine first before beating the bog.

The internet really is confusing. People give shitty advice and you really have to go to someone who isn't dumb. Reminds me of all the superstition over the secrets in Remnant I'd hear over the mic in multiplayer. Humans love making shit up whenever they can't clearly see something. I'm amazed how we go back to our caveman roots and invent all kinds of juju about how some video game world's secrets work. /rant. Sorry, I needed that.

I cant be sure, but I think you can get the rapport again on a different run. I know it cant be on the same run. Though, technically, the game saves after each floor. So you could quit and reload if you lose it. The best thing to do is to wait until you are close to the floor to pay the tribute. And watch which relics you have. And you lose it if you attack any of the pilfers The thing is, even if you lose the rapport, you can still enter the bog as long as the tribute is paid. The rapport is for something in there, though

And there are some things you should do in the other mine first. Though, it is much harder, and hard to get those things, as well Like the shield and the last two familiars
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@Mead

I have to thank you for recommending Hades. It's a very well made game. I wish these types of games were made in the NES era. It would've made replayability so much higher.

Cool Im glad to hear you dig it!

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Ok so finally beat Hades. Took me 25 tries. Half as many as UnderMine, but I think it's definitely harder. The only reason I won was because of the weapon being turned into a critical machine gun. And getting 200% base from a distance. It was sickening. Theseus didn't know what to do with himself.

https://i.imgur.com/EqG06NT.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/QR3Wcaq.jpg

I gave all my nectar to Artemis. Or Artemis' thighs. I gave Dusa a lot too. Everyone only got 1 so far. I was going to choose Meg, but I liked Artemis a bit more. Oh andy favorite weapon is the fists one, but I survive longer with the bow. Makes sense I guess. Don't bring fists to a gun fight.

You should definitely work on Meg and Thanatos
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