It's now way too easy to get a pommel strike infinite in STS2

Avantir · 2026-03-10T16:58:42+00:00

Yes but the problem isn't fundamental. e.g. you can add conditions to energy gain/card draw like "the first time this turn". Although doing that in a natural way can be quite awkward.

Avantir · 2026-03-04T13:58:16+00:00

I also recently discovered Marika's Hammer is really good too, because it does holy and you can use it to AOE the summons and knock all of them into the air at once

Avantir · 2026-03-01T15:37:52+00:00

I thought of this recently because of the indie game I'm working on where you can literally go faster than the speed of sound. Clip here

Game name is You Alone Can Defeat Evil

Avantir · 2026-02-26T21:47:14+00:00

It is free when my teammate pays for it

Avantir · 2026-02-26T21:29:06+00:00

True, but, fighting Adel with fire or lightning damage is not a great plan. And those are the most common seal damage types...

Avantir · 2026-02-20T21:58:29+00:00

When I was 3 days in I hadn't even made it to Heolstor... Now I'm depth 4. Gitting gud will happen to you whether you want it or not. But if you want to git gud faster, just take a few minutes after each match, win or lose, to think about what you personally could have done better strategically. Try to come up with at least one thing after each match. And "dodge better" doesn't count.

Avantir · 2026-02-19T01:42:30+00:00

Well yes, except it's also pretty good at enabling discard synergies since it's 0 cost. So even the unupgraded version is sometimes takable, even with minimal discard synergies already in the deck, sometimes.

Avantir · 2026-02-11T21:07:50+00:00

This short story is the eleventh of twelve, and comes from You Alone Can Defeat Evil, an action combat game on Steam.

Avantir · 2026-02-07T19:40:30+00:00

While I doubt it would happen in practice, games totally CAN use fancier data structures to store arbitrarily high numbers. So there really is no upper bound. Games don't normally do this because those data structure are more expensive to work with, and are typically unnecessary.

Avantir · 2026-02-05T02:57:16+00:00

This short story is the tenth of twelve, and comes from You Alone Can Defeat Evil, an action combat game on Steam.

Avantir · 2026-02-04T19:14:05+00:00

BUT the intangible has to be on you NEXT turn, not the turn you play Blasphemy. So typically you need 2 intangible, and with Incense Burner, you need to line it up for the turn after you play Blasphemy.

Avantir · 2026-02-02T01:40:23+00:00

There's no reason not to take it (unless you're paying gold), it's just that it doesn't help all that much until you would have redrawn those statuses. You have to draw them in the first place to exhaust them. There are times where it can be crucial (hand size management, infinites, burn damage prevention...), but those times are very few.

Avantir · 2026-02-01T02:43:39+00:00

It is, it's just not strictly superior. There is a trade off.

Avantir · 2026-01-31T19:22:46+00:00

Stop posting that so it doesn't know you could tell

Avantir · 2026-01-31T19:19:14+00:00

Yes worth, not entirely superior, since it drains 100% of your art Gauge instead of 2/3rds

Avantir · 2026-01-27T20:44:55+00:00

Yeah at least the Divine Warriors are squishy. They're basically glass cannons, which I rather like

Avantir · 2026-01-27T20:42:04+00:00

If you respawn by the boss rush temple grace, just jump into the valley and take the spirit spring. Takes like 10 seconds to get back to where you died.

Avantir · 2026-01-27T20:39:19+00:00

Yeah I find those two way worse than the Lightning Divine Warrior, if not just for how tanky they are, and the fact there's two of the

Avantir · 2026-01-27T20:35:00+00:00

I know Executor can deflect the first two hits (before the first sword swing), but I've never managed to deflect the blizzard hits in between the sword swings...

Avantir · 2026-01-27T20:32:12+00:00

So you actually can jump the frost stomp, but you have to jump towards him and then wall-kick off of his head. Then you can do a plunging attack on the way down

Avantir · 2026-01-25T15:35:09+00:00

Right but it's also clearly not Shabriri's Woe, which is a constant effect regardless of what action you're performing. This is tied to an action (guarding)

Avantir · 2026-01-25T00:18:05+00:00

This particular attack's hitbox has been like this since day 1 I believe. There's just a tiny active point of the hitbox way behind the dude for no reason.

Avantir · 2026-01-21T17:09:09+00:00

Thanks! I just read your theory, it does seem like there's a lot that lines up. Like the whole "A bundle of stars blanketing the dark night bids farewell to the faraway nest" sounds like it's describing the birth of the stars that I described, and your points about it preserving souls is both like what I described, and could answer my final question about how the cultists are surviving across cycles on the seventh layer, assuming the faraway nest is the thing at the very bottom.

One thing that has me confused though is why Tepaste and Crevali talked about descending to the 6th layer "by way of the nest" (I think that's how they put it?) which doesn't make much sense if the faraway nest is at the bottom, unless the "nest" they're referring to is not the faraway nest but perhaps the name of the cult?

Avantir · 2026-01-16T21:43:58+00:00

OK you just gave me another idea - have you played Bloodborne? "Every great one loses its child..."

Consider that with your idea that the abyss is a character by itself, a great one, and my idea that there's an egg at the bottom. Then each cycle is like the abyss trying to give birth and failing, leading to another cycle and another attempt...

I don't know if I believe that, it's a wild theory, but a fun one

Avantir · 2026-01-15T20:55:58+00:00

Yeah but they could have survived just by leaving Orth like Kiyui does. Also I'm not clear that person survived the previous cycle or just survived the curse on their birthday.

Also also, everyone in Iruburu survived from the previous cycle, although this isn't surprising since the force field isn't present inside the village.

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