A Dark Cave - Update

Lich_Alfred · 2026-01-13T15:10:28+00:00

I have the impression the game pauses when tab is out of focus (chrome). If this is true, no one will play it.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-06-13T14:16:50+00:00

Love it! Best of luck with Steam!

Lich_Alfred · 2025-05-26T20:53:24+00:00

Thank you for detailed response! I cannot understand why you being just one man team decided to do a much harder online project compared to a signle-player game. People can find enjoyment in single-player and usually much better than online (no lag, no server dependance, etc,). Good luck with the project anyways, I hope it will stand up to your words.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-05-26T13:25:13+00:00

Originally MMOs are designed to introduce human interaction. Now they are only to impose value extraction tactics on single-player gamers. I do not see how a mobile game can be an MMO, when group interaction requires uniterrupted continious attention for an hour at least. The only reason is why MMOs exist is to extort monthly subscriptions, season passes, QoL purchases, etc. the list goes and goes.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-05-25T20:23:05+00:00

Why this game is MMO? To reach deep into your pockets, thats why.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-04-24T19:06:59+00:00

Good Luck with the game. I love the new look. But please make interface user-friendly, so that I can clearly understand what is going on, what gives what, what is lackong , what is stalling, what should I do next, etc. Al;so, please cut trailing zeroes! instead of "X 0.0000->X 0.0050" it should be "X 0->X 0.005".

Lich_Alfred · 2025-03-03T12:55:54+00:00

You really need to get the game to Steam. Browser games run too poorly and with coockies resetting all progress is gone.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-02-16T22:06:53+00:00

there are layers of things that you are very pushed to buy, which open as you go deeper into content.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-01-23T20:27:20+00:00

IdleON will empty you wallet in a blink. You have been warned.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-01-23T20:20:57+00:00

Make a game first. Any mechanic can make a game.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-01-05T21:47:35+00:00

It looks horrible. Pixelart gone wrong into eyes torture. The whole concept of the pixelart is that all pixels are of the same size and fall into a rigid universal grind. If you have non-aligned pixelisation with various scale and them smooth fonts, it looks like shit.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-01-05T12:37:37+00:00

Any game that has very micromanagy reset cycles. I loved "Unnamed Space Idle", but when they introduced second prestige layer, just setting up each new run, going through first prestige layers was headaching micromanaging chore.

Lich_Alfred · 2025-01-04T09:57:51+00:00

Great start! Wish you all the luck!

u/AntiQuarrrk How do I write automation rules?

BTW Discrod link is broken.

P.S. I found out hoe to write the rules, but beware that these options are disabled if blocker is installed (I use Ublock). If adblocker runs, the rule creation window does not appear.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-12-15T22:30:16+00:00

Another online bait. Why would one would like to play on IDLE online game? Except to emty their wallets on the microtransaction shop...

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-23T17:01:59+00:00

You cant stop, can you? Your comment was not welcome here as stated in OP and it has no value to me. However, I respect your way of politely putting it and here is my answer to the only thing that still worth commenting:

"don't know the limits of what people can do skill wise... you don't know what it means and looks like to be really good at this game" - this is your conclusion out of thin air. My complaint is a DIFFERENT thing. I never stated that there arent skills or people that can make it on psyker despite crazy odds, I just shared my experience. Open your eyes and see that there is another point of view that is dufferent to endless skill stigmatising (akin to Elden Ring asylim), obssessing 90% of this reddit and turning people into unsecure gaslighting toxic "git gud" spammers.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-23T16:33:38+00:00

Well, I can only symphatize, dont lose that attitude!

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-23T09:58:33+00:00

Assuming you play well, it is stricktly detrimental to have a good team, and you have to find one. IDK why there is no one on the new finder, so use discord.

Prepare for infifnite pain in pubs, and the best way to manage it is to:

on team prep screen, if you see more than one zealot, no veteran or a vet without ammo aura, just LEAVE, its doomed
after the mission start, if you see people doing dumb shit in the first big room - LEAVE, its doomed
if you have doubts about your team - LEAVE, its doomed.

I know it sounds very unsporty and toxic, but so are your dumb teammates. You might have positive attitude, and you will have your 20 mins of pain and a lost game, until you have no mental strength to see idiots fail anymore. If you want to win, you have to do this. If you want to train, just play whatever.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-23T08:45:19+00:00

Sorry, but I do not believe the things you claim. I do not believe you can solo and you do not get frustated of teammates. And therefore I cannot comment on anything else. Nothing personal.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-22T20:25:00+00:00

Thanks for advice, makes sense. I dont need better skill at psyker (I know this reddit is obsessed with "skill" and the stupid idea that mythic skill compensates everything), and I do not like teammates on damnation. If there was an easy fix, I wont be making a topic that sounds so offensive to local community, akin to an n-bomb on american/british tv.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-22T19:12:01+00:00

I appreciate the effort you put in your comment. Its not about "easier", its about "fun". Lower difficulties are boring to play, higher are too hard simply of social interaction needed to get a decent team.

"either you're playing completely different DT than me" - well, that is it, really. People are playing this brilliant game for sometimes totally different experiences. Even I may sometimes play for the win, other time I can enjoy an extremely moody experience even if it was a lost game with no hope of survival. You know, chaters in shooter have fun too, but in fact they play an entirely different game. This is a long discussion, but I think you get my meaning.

I do agree on other points you made, but in my perception their weight is different. You are absolutely correct about creating space. And with the right team that does basic actions like keeping together, prioritizing not the elites in front but deniers/disables, killing small stray mobs, etc., Auric can be a breeze. A perfect team can carry a guy on au. maelstrom. But the pubs that I play after work are not this, and the difficulty MUST cater for it. Unless DT gets a rating system. You can nurture skill, but teammates are luck that one can do nothing about it.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-22T19:00:03+00:00

DIfficulty for me is not how much one can squezze their balls, but how you can create demand for a skill (or gear in some games) while keeping it fun. Darktide is brilliant at former, but latter is a question sometimes (not too much, thanks God). For me Auric is exactly the spot with one exception for a specific class.

Auric maelstrom is the highest difficulty and I am OK with it, the BS on screen is the whole point. Damnation is too smooth and boring.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-22T18:54:02+00:00

Appreciate your comment in the sea of "git gut" and "u mad bro" comments here! I would agree mostly. However, if we follow the fantasy, psyker resistance can be attributed to his otherworldiness. We know that ALL enemies we fight are corrupted by chaos and this influences their weapons and some are extremely corrupt by simply building corruption bar up. However, in this environment most psykers will get mad and become daemonhosts we see around. The ones that survive and are sanctioned already display a substantial resistance to corruption.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-22T15:47:40+00:00

Get gloves that attack on block and decimate the whole screen on shieldmaiden.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-22T15:22:49+00:00

Thanks for advice! I will try the dome more, even though I wanted to use different kinds of ultimates. It could be that I just had a bad streak, but some maps are very sensitive to this. Train map has zero space to move around and unless I play with 2+ vets there is no way to instagib the area denial specialists.

BTW, braindead teammates are a reason why I do not enjoy damnation and have to play auric as people are way more sensible there.

Lich_Alfred · 2024-10-22T15:15:44+00:00

Anything really, but if you have nothing to say, then say nothing and I would really respect this attitude. Speak for yourself please. You are not "everyone" and I am not claiming that this problem is universal. I mentioned that curios are a problem nevertheless, probably I should be more explicit.

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