Universal Dungeons of Chaos UNITY EDITION (by Volker Elzner)

yeah, it crashed... anyway, i'm on iOS 7 so luckily had a backup of the savegane file from a week ago that i've just replaced.

 

Bug with Priest and Heal?

I just promoted both my Cleric and my Monk to Priest status. However, it doesn't appear to register when they cast Heal in combat (for the purposes of advancing the skill). They do advance when it's cast outside of combat. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

Here are screenshots from within a combat where HEAVE casts Heal, but isn't listed as using any spells in the Fight Statistics
http://imgur.com/a/aDHMP

It appears to affect both of my priests.

 

Good God, I love this game to bits. I've been playing for days now.

Great job on the world building. I've found some really neat little places that are so much more than just caves filled with baddies. I love how just as I was starting to think the game was too easy I stumbled onto the dragon youngling.

The tactical nature of combat is great too. I basically won that encounter with tactics despite only being like level 6 or 7.

This game is must own!

 

I feel like the UI is perfectly fine from a functionality perspective. I've never had any problems figuring out how to do something with it, and I'm pretty sensitive to that sort of thing, as you could tell if you read my posts in the Lost Portal thread.

As for my background, I played later Might & Magics and Ultima's on both PC and the SNES, along with various other now old school CRPG's. Honestly I don't love this game because it makes me feel nostalgic, like i'm playing those older titles. I feel like this game is a very satisfying open world tactics-driven party-based dungeon-crawler RPG in its own right.

The optional little dungeons I've seen so far are interesting and relevant to my progress in the main quest. The tactical nature of battles means this isn't just a game of my stats versus some NPC enemy's stats - like I said, I basically took that dragon youngling apart, I believe, using superior tactics (tight formation, strategic use of buffs/heals, general party dynamics, etc) rather than brute force after grinding ants or something like that, although I guess I could have done that. I do appreciate the auto-battle feature so I can do other things while my AI driven party cleans up trash mobs. You might want to consider different speeds for this, as the faster auto-battle can resolve the two puny wolves I encounter just east of the starting mountain area, the better.

The only other suggestion I can think of would be to implement an "undo" button for the last player action in battle. I'm playing on my phone and I lost count of the number of times I've tapped the screen to fire off an arrow at an enemy from afar only to end up taking one step forward towards that enemy instead. Either that, or adjust the tap zones for each tile somehow.

Again, I'm really glad I listened to the folks who left the small pile of glowing reviews on your game's iOS page instead of shying away from it because of the primitive looking graphics. The UI does look bad in screenshots, but it's much tighter and cleaner on your screen when the game's actually running before your eyes.

Keep working on it. I'll more than likely join your next Kickstarter and buy any future titles you put out, Volker.

 

I played the Ultima games up to VII back in the day, and I'm really enjoying this so far; got it late last night and am only level 2.

I could be wrong, but I would swear in those old games that it was possible to equip a character with a sword, shield and bow or sling, and it would let them automatically attack from a distance with the bow or sling, and then switch to the close combat weapons when an enemy was next to the character. In fact, that was a way to neutralize an enemy archer; get next to him and force him to switch to a sword.

 

I'm not sure how the coding would work, but couldn't you just set a rule where undo was an option if the turn after the last previous action was manual and it wouldn't be an option if the next action was toggled AI?

It would probably be easier to just fidget with the touch zones per tile. LOL

And yeah I mean an in-fight speed toggle that I could just toggle to fastest before setting my party to fully AI controlled to kill those wolves/rats/etc while I pour myself a cup of coffee IRL.

That's a great idea. I've got a bow that my fighter could use laying around right now that I'd slot in for something like this. It would certainly make for a broader range of strategies as my characters could be more flexible.

 

yeah, also AD&D series by SSI had a system to swap weapons(range/melee/magic)during battles, as the original AD&D rules.

It would also be nice to see walls or columns to cover characters flanks and/or back, all could become more strategic.

 

I finally got to play some of Dungeons of Chaos. These are my thoughts so far.

I really like this game a lot! I love how you can learn new abilities from mentors found throughout the land. The game takes a realistic approach to developing new skills. The more you use a technique or spell ,the stronger it gets. If you want to learn the shield bash skill, someone will teach It to you for a price. Complete a quest for a Mage and he will impart his knowledge on to you. Come back with enough money and he will make the spell stronger. Once you level up ,you get a few points to increase stats or to learn new skills. Hmmmm, do I learn that Identify spell or put more points towards that combined party skill that helps you find hidden areas?

For those that Don't want to fight the easy turn based fight, an auto fight feature can be used. I do use this from time to time , but prefer to make my own choices. Just don't forget to camp to regain health and mana after a tough fight or you may be in for a rude awakening. After a battle ,you may be rewarded with weapons , armour etc. It's always fun to look for that next item to boost the team members. With a little searching, I even found a great weapon against the undead.

I have only scratched the surface of this game but, this is going to stay on my IPad for a long time.

Thanks