I love the first set honestly, the leathery look is one of my favs

I'd love to get some recommendations for dungeon crawlers, most of my experience with the genre is like. Etrian Odyssey and watching a playthrough of Stonekeep

I do hope that you can do the one fuckhuge pull at the start though, bc that's so fun

I'm adding input lag in return

The photocells bit I'm not sad about losing but the cramped tunnels, winding paths, slowing ground, and egg sacs felt right to me

I'm the one person who actually dislikes the Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak changes *because* they made it a smoother experience with less annoyances.

Really wondering how Dzemael Darkhold and Aurum Vale will change with 7.4

I *do* miss Aurum Vale's Coincounter not having aoe markers but it's not a big deal they're gone

A stopgap solution could be a simple as "Pot chests in South Horn have a chance to drop 1x of the upgrade mats"

I'm suuuper looking forward to North Horn, seeing all the cross sections of 5th Astral Era civilizations we've never seen before

Rise's irl pov

It's by no means a fully perfect solution but RL2 already has stat scaling the more you play and gather gold, so even if you're having trouble with the first game clear you can just. Grind out a little more stats trivially. (Tradeoff being how ppl feel about rogue-lite gameplay in general)

I like the way Rogue Legacy 2 handles finetuning scaling options as framing that entire menu as "House Rules". It's not the default experience, but you can crank the difficulty down or even up depending on your preference

Don't even have to be like crazy punishing in terms of damage output or mistakes, just having something more