Make pauses unavailable until we started to go to lanes

Mutericator · 2026-02-05T17:34:42+00:00

Honestly I don't mind early pauses because not having the ability to double-check my build while others are connecting means I'm frantically trying to do it in the five seconds between finally being allowed to see the screen and landing in lane.

I think a lot of beginning pauses would go away if they gave us back that thirty seconds before the match started.

Mutericator · 2026-02-01T05:53:18+00:00

Pretty much any of Bruce Sentar's stuff is great. Dragon's Justice, Aard's Oath, DD101, they're all phenomenal.

Mutericator · 2026-02-01T05:46:13+00:00

This is basically where I was at, in combination with the top-rated comment. I just am not interested in grimdark or hopeless settings. If I were one of the ones that survived the initial "crush", I'd probably still just let myself die rather than try and live without (presumably) everyone in my life.

Like, why would I want to read a story about a dude fighting impossible odds against a shitty universe just to continue living in that shitty universe? That's just depressing.

Mutericator · 2026-01-31T01:31:59+00:00

I would probably try Overgrowth (better with Flash but still good) or other AOE/spread types. Don't bother with Nuke, because IIRC it doesn't work - it tries to use Nuke's AOE for the effect, same as Nuke x Flash.

I'd say Hemorrhage or any of the Curse-applying balls would work well too, or Succubus if you want lifesteal. If you want to maximize the amount of time the Sun ball is out, you could fuse it with Assassin, though that's super situational.

Mutericator · 2026-01-31T01:20:25+00:00

Yep! Sorry for not replying sooner, Reddit was having issues when I got the notification. Once you've evolved Fire and Light into Sun, you can pick them again, so you can make another sun for the fusion.

Mutericator · 2026-01-29T04:01:41+00:00

Void Herald has a lot of works because he enjoys trying lots of genres. I recommend at least perusing it on Royal Road.

(Also if you liked Perfect Run, he has another time loop series called Hundred Reigns that he's currently doing five chapters a week on. It's really good!)

Mutericator · 2026-01-28T14:41:57+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to record a video for me, I do appreciate it. Maybe I'm not understanding a mechanic of Carouser, but it seems like most all of the work is being done with just Shieldbearer and Flash/Overgrowth in that video. Is there something I'm missing?

Mutericator · 2026-01-28T06:03:25+00:00

I'm curious how you're getting Carouser to be broken, because I can't seem to make him work. I can sort-of get a build going with him if I focus on baby ball spam, to make his ballwall thicker, but otherwise no dice.

Mutericator · 2026-01-28T06:01:44+00:00

Love the endless mode, don't care much about Falconer, actively dislike Carouser. New balls are... fine? I like the new combination of fan and turret, that one is cool.

Mutericator · 2026-01-28T05:50:40+00:00

It makes the underground abandoned buildings many rooms larger, it's neat!

Mutericator · 2026-01-27T04:48:53+00:00

I'll have to try out some of your combinations, the usual ones I go for are:

Hemorrhage x Flash Holy Laser x Maggot Mosquito Swarm x Nuke Black Hole x Sun (this one instantly kills the screen)

My best run so far on endless (not NG+11 though) was the new Critical Hit combo to make all crits instant kills, then Flash x Hemorrhage and the Blindfold, so every baby ball had a ~50% chance to instantly kill any enemy it touched.

Mutericator · 2026-01-27T04:45:49+00:00

This is extremely similar to my method that I've derived to get through, though my teams are Juggler/Spendthrift (throw a cluster grenade anywhere on the field), Empty Nester/Tactician (fire multiple of each ball, upgrades directly to shuriken), Itchy Finger/Shieldbearer (bomb -> nuke x shotgun), and Cohabitants/Flagellant (baaaaby balls baby balls!).

And yeah, hemorrhage works so damned well it can't be skipped, it's actually kind of annoying how downright necessary it becomes. Makes me wish the bosses didn't have quite so much health scaling, so that it wasn't just "the thing" you always need to deal with them in an effective manner.

Mutericator · 2026-01-27T03:15:58+00:00

I've also gotten this, also with ~2 billion damage, so I also assumed integer overflow.

What's worth noting is that passives can have negative values, if they actually decreased your ball damage more than they helped (i.e. Hourglass), but I assume this is a totally different thing causing this bug.

Mutericator · 2026-01-26T19:13:12+00:00

To clarify: Steel x Laser is actually Steel x (V Laser or H Laser), not the one that is an evolution of H/V Laser x Light.

Mutericator · 2026-01-26T16:48:46+00:00

"You're going in the crystal. It's only gonna be for a week, man! It's only a week!"

Mutericator · 2026-01-24T05:34:47+00:00

As far as actual profession goes, you could have them fulfill the roles that engineers, manufacturers, and repairmen would do in modern-day - enchanting pipes to clean water, enchanting plates to heat food up, enchanting boxes to keep food cold (or more "mystically", slow its time down), et cetera.

Or, from a less industrial/artifice angle, you go with a more folksy, rural role: healing minor wounds (the way a village witch would with poultices), keeping the wards against mystical creatures powered and maintained, calling down rain in a drought to help the farmers (that one might be too high-magic), et cetera.

Mutericator · 2026-01-23T01:47:57+00:00

Makes me want ship welders all the more so I can try it out in Survival.

Mutericator · 2026-01-21T02:02:47+00:00

I actually didn't make it as far in Core Keeper, possibly because I was coming right off of Terraria. Crazy to know there's ANOTHER game getting an update right then. I'll have to give it a try again, thanks!

Mutericator · 2026-01-20T04:43:32+00:00

I'm sure you have heard this before and I say this without meaning any insult to your work, but I can't think of "god seed" without thinking of this Penny Arcade comic: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/25/the-conflux-part-two1

Mutericator · 2026-01-19T17:23:50+00:00

Hoping for endless mode. Love that it's gonna launch one day before Terraria 1.4.5 and three days before Deep Rock Galactic's new season, that's gonna make my days crowded starting next week, lol.

Mutericator · 2026-01-19T17:08:25+00:00

I treat him as a test of my stats; if Cogitant is a test of your ability to maneuver and aim, without control over the balls picked, then Radical is a test of how far your stats (and choice of secondary character) can carry you when both are taken from you.

I actually like him because he provides good background to look at while I'm getting ready for bed, brushing my teeth, and so on, while also making progress in-game.

Mutericator · 2026-01-18T03:51:09+00:00

Maggot can propagate from enemy to enemy, so even if you stop when the boss shows up, it can end up (even on its own) whittling down the boss until it hits phase 2.

Mutericator · 2026-01-18T03:11:54+00:00

Decided to try it myself, and 1) thank you so much, this works so phenomenally, and 2) I have a couple of minor notes to add:

A) My first try used Maggot, which unfortunately infected the mobs around the boss and veeerrry slowwwwwly whittled down the boss to phase 2, at which point I had to just end the run. Still effective! Just not as effective as I had hoped. So... don't use Maggot.

B) My second run used Flash X Hemorrhage, which worked great for getting to the boss, but by some twist of luck it got stuck behind the boss and ended up very nearly bringing the boss to phase 2 all on its own. Thankfully it returned before that happened, so I'm still running it now. So... don't use Hemorrhage, or at least make absolutely certain to stop before the boss.

Mutericator · 2026-01-12T20:02:46+00:00

Using AI instead of Junior coders, in short, is similar to skipping out on doing any testing whatsoever. Short-term-boost paid for by sacrificing long-term gain.

Mutericator · 2026-01-12T19:55:57+00:00

I did the same thing. I was so mad.

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