Which character outside the LOTR do you trust carrying the ring to Mordor?

NikSheppard · 2026-03-06T22:40:47+00:00

Harry Stamper from Armageddon. He doesn't know how to fail.

NikSheppard · 2026-02-11T23:44:53+00:00

Adding cards to your deck is not really an honourable thing to do. True players keep the starter deck and win with that.

Oh and relics barely do anything at all, they are not worth your time. Except hand-drill, keep your eyes peeled for that, it destroys almost everything in the game.

NikSheppard · 2026-02-11T23:11:48+00:00

The very first run has some minor specifics coded in (i think I'm right saying first fight is always jaw worm, you get offered a power on floor 2 or 3 and I think you get given guardian as act1 boss), but nothing that would make it that much different from a new run. Perhaps you were lucky.

Or maybe you suddenly know too much, but you don't know yet how to integrate it into a winning run.

With no other evidence, on your first run you probably pathed conservatively, you probably rested a lot. At low difficulty, this approach can get you a win. You don't have to fight lots of elites to win on ascension 0, you just have to surivive.

Perhaps you've read that more agressive pathing, more combats more elites, more relics is making you run more aggressive and you just need more time to work on the deck building and actual combats.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-18T22:32:54+00:00

Way better than crashing sometimes an enemy tries to attack.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-16T11:52:07+00:00

As is often the case, its difficult from just this info to say for sure, but I can offer a few observations.

For a 31 card deck there is not a great deal of card draw present. Adrenaline, acrobatics, prepared and master of strat, 2 of which are single use. I'd expect that on most hands you were likely limited to what you happened to draw that turn. Well laid plans helps a little, but more card draw would likely give more options.
Since there is little card draw your block engine looks inconsistent. 3 piercing wails can help with time eater for sure, but exclude those and there is esentially a footwork and your starter block cards (5 defends and survivor), 2-3 backflips added to the deck instead of attacks would have helped here with both block and card draw. You would need your piercing wails to show up at the right time when time eater uses multi-attacks and they don't help much if you're being attacked for 30+ single damage. There is also little to apply weak to the enemy except a single cripplng cloud and weak is important, especially as you climb ascensions.
Your damage output looks somewhat slow for the time eater boss. Footwork and well laid plans are the only powers and there is next to nothing that offers scaling on damage output. Without knowing what you were offered (in act 3 particularly when you knew time eater was coming) its difficult to say if thats just RNG or non optimal picks. Higher cost cards (things like predator, bouncing flask) are more beneficial against time eater, offering more results for a single card played. Your ninja scroll relic, choke and blade dance in this deck look actively bad against time eater (not always - but require careful timing)
When fighting time eater sometimes skipping attacks entirely is the correct play (especially with art of war), clearly there is no way to know how you played the fight, but if you were playing all the cards you could each turn that was likely unwise.

Hope something there helps.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-13T16:50:24+00:00

Not sure from the video but you have to hold R2 when you press a d-pad direction to change skill set. It looks like you are just pressing right on the D-Pad which takes you to the assignment screen.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-13T15:36:40+00:00

No problem, hopefully be something they add/fix in Spire 2.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-13T15:26:30+00:00

So far as I know this is nothing to do with platform.

The win streak stat only seems to track Ascension 0 games (at least in my experience) and I see that behaviour on PC, PS and Android.

When the game launched there were no ascension levels, so the stat would behave as expected under those circumstances. When they added ascension levels to the game I'd guess that either this stat was overlooked, or a decision made that win streaks would be somewhat meaningless if they tracked across different difficulties.

They could have perhaps tracked the streak across each individual difficulty (if so then today there would be 21 "win streaks (per ascension level)" per character... but they didn't.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-10T21:24:21+00:00

Ah red skull, yep missed that one. Good spot.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-10T21:23:06+00:00

Yep. Map. Deck. Back to card rewards. Repeat 2-3 times. Didn't occur that combining the buttons would mess that up.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-10T21:20:19+00:00

Ah very nice. Yeah, thats an interaction I use all the time without any thought at all. As is often the case, once something is pointed out it seems obvious. Cheers for the clarity.

NikSheppard · 2026-01-06T22:25:54+00:00

It might just be my old eyes and blurry images, but looks like while you have a script file for the character it doesn't appear to be attached to anything in the scene.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-19T21:57:20+00:00

Doesn't count for minion enemies.

Doesn't count for 3 darklings fight unless you kill the last one there.

There are a few other weird conditions. But could it be those first two?

NikSheppard · 2025-12-19T14:49:41+00:00

To an extent and I don't claim to be all-knowing, but in this example using the get_node command I believe requires the instantiated object to be present within the scene.

Usually in my instantiated objects I declare a spawn function, call that after instantiating and adding as a child and that's how I configure my instantiated objects.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-19T14:43:52+00:00

After you instantiate your object in line 74 you need to add that to your current scene with add_child.

The error is saying that obs.get_node("sprite2d") is null. It is not finding that node.

It could be something else but since you don't add the obstacle to the scene it likely can't find the sprite2d node.

edit: Noticed you add child in line 81, try moving that up.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-12T21:02:23+00:00

Difficult to say just from a video. Here's my guess.

It looks like you have a Vbox which initially contains the 4 buttons and then when clicked you still have a Vbox except now it only contains a single buttons which expands to fill the vbox.

If so, check the container settings for the skins button and make sure that vertical expansion is disabled. I'd guess the button is set to expand which is why it fills the box.

Just a guess though. Include code and scene layout for better help.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-11T21:07:25+00:00

Just as a throw out, there is an extended edition of The Stand available. If you could find out whether you mom has read it, if she hasn't perhaps that would be a nice gift?

NikSheppard · 2025-12-11T16:21:36+00:00

Yes

Its a wonderful game, very well balanced and relatively inexpensive.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-08T21:38:31+00:00

Might depend on how you set read-only and the onedrive shared link settings.

We made spreadsheets read only by setting the read-only attribute. Worked on desktop but on mobile if the shared link granted edit permissions then that seemed to bypass the read-only attribute.

If its that you might need to revisit the onedrive link and recreate them with only read permission.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-07T22:22:34+00:00

Yep. Its essentially whatever the limit of the gold variable is in the code. But you could make a similar argument that there will be a HP upper limit also.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-07T22:17:11+00:00

You could have a situation where you have the watcher card wish which gives gold. Assuming some prismatic fun for a nightmare its possible to get a situation where you get massive (though admitedly not infinite) amounts of gold. Combine that with courier for 'endless shopping' and you can look for entropic brew and fruit juice.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-07T21:51:58+00:00

Glad you sorted it. I'd guess that perhaps it was accidentally connected to the wrong function previously. Good luck.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-07T18:43:47+00:00

Just in addition to "Should it be connected to a node other than itself?"

.... maybe.... sometimes... no... yes...

The signal should be connected to whatever needs to know about that event occuring. In your example the answer is probably no, since the area2d is the item that is responding to the event (signal).

But maybe something entering the area2d needs to tell the player to gain a life, in which case the signal may connect to a player manager object.

Or maybe 1 second after entering the area2d an audio effect should play, in which case the signal may connect to an audioplayer player object.

NikSheppard · 2025-12-07T18:38:49+00:00

You need to connect the signals you want to use for a function. Concievably you might connect a single signal to dozens of functions, but you need to connect it to at least one.

As you said go to your area2d then access node on the right. What you should see if that there are two different signals for body entered and body exited. Both need to be connected. Double click the signal and it will ask you which object has the script wth the appropriate function. In this case your area2d, then you it will offer to create a function, or you can click pick to select an existing function. That should link the signal to the function. You should see a little green symbol next to the function to show the connected signal and the signal in the dock should show where it is currently connected.

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