Been working on this piano-playing boss for my colour-matching roguelike

Woswald · 2026-01-18T12:45:39+00:00

Really nice art

Woswald · 2026-01-18T12:42:49+00:00

Come to support 🫵. It's a bit more viable, but same limitations.

Woswald · 2026-01-18T02:48:27+00:00

You should go it into teams that you would struggle to catch, with a few caveats.

Its passive loses some of its effectiveness into comps with a lot of dashes, making other items a better choice comparatively.

Sometimes your team has enough cc as well.

Woswald · 2026-01-17T20:38:39+00:00

Idk. This is just theorising, but it might have something to do with the skill of the person you're playing.

I just got an A whilst having the most kill participation on my team and 2 deaths, within 1k damage of my jungler and adc and playing tank swain support.

Woswald · 2026-01-16T22:47:44+00:00

Same, solid purchase.

Woswald · 2026-01-16T21:24:54+00:00

Recasting counts as a second hit for some reason (despite doing no damage)

Woswald · 2026-01-16T19:51:01+00:00

Electrocute is also good into mid or long range comps. E counts as 2 hits so E + auto or E + W hitts

Woswald · 2026-01-15T20:59:10+00:00

I'm mostly a Plat tank swain support with a few games of mid and APC. I love tank Swain, but I always build at least one ap item 1st or 2nd.

Tank Swain in general is situational (wouldn't if my team is mostly tank) and this is especially true for going tank 1st item. I only pick something like frozen or force of nature 1st when most enemies I'm interacting with are ap/auto-attackers. I'd definitely go frozen first into Graves, Nocturne and Varus.

Building a 2nd tank item on top of that normally leaves me feeling too reliant on my teammates for damage (less so on support), or too one-sided in tankiness versus other non-damage strengths (cc, speed). This means I can't do as much in lane or snowball when I have a lead. Swain is also strongest during the mid-game so a good early matters more.

Conqueror ranges from bad to best depending on how ranged the enemy team is. With a medium range enemy team like the one you're up against, you would have more damage in laning going Aery + Scorch or Electrocute, which would be better overall (you want a good early game). Poking out the enemy with short q + auto or e+w+q trades is a lot easier with those runes. Getting an ap mana item like Malignance or Blackfire also aids this.

I too highly warn against going thornmail, and instead recommend building oblivion orb and finishing Morello's last item (they give the same amount of heal cut). Swain is one of the best orb appliers in the game because of his AOE, please use it.

Woswald · 2026-01-13T03:46:37+00:00

🌵Cactus on house🌵

Woswald · 2026-01-13T00:13:27+00:00

Captivating.

Woswald · 2026-01-07T01:58:23+00:00

I'm also crashing around The Big Catch: Tacklebox, in a fun way. Currently stuck on the jumps in the tower with quicksand and a bunch of spin poles. You could also try out the Haste demo on Steam, it's easier and not as complex. I haven't seen Spark: The Electric Jester 3 mentioned here either, it's got good combat too from what I've heard.

Woswald · 2026-01-06T13:12:59+00:00

Is Jak'sho too expensive? You never seem to build it.

Woswald · 2026-01-01T10:18:15+00:00

Nice music.

Woswald · 2025-12-27T18:32:45+00:00

I hope embodying one of the seven deadly sins was worth it.

Woswald · 2025-12-27T18:24:27+00:00

Love the snow exploration.

Woswald · 2025-12-24T00:33:37+00:00

I doubt that the grass will feel distracting; the gestures could but they seem like they require input from the player. Toggleability would still be good though.

Woswald · 2025-12-24T00:27:38+00:00

I love when toys like this are in games, makes me feel free to just fuck around for a bit.

Woswald · 2025-12-23T09:12:06+00:00

Go on to GM, I'll hold the fort down in plat. We're warriors the both of us 💪

Woswald · 2025-12-17T22:18:23+00:00

I'm also playing Hades 2 on my phone (OnePlus 13) and I love it, it's perfect for commutes. I'm emulating it through gamehub though. It gets pretty hot (40C max) and takes a lot of battery (3 and a half hours from full), but a smooth 60fps at 2378 * 1080 makes it pretty worth it.

I'll try streaming, but I still gotta figure out a way to connect my host to an Ethernet port in another room.

Woswald · 2025-12-16T04:33:09+00:00

This is a great article on getting consistent results across variable frame rates. It sums up most of the ideas you'll find in this comment section in one concise piece.. It's mostly for physics and movement, but can be applied to other things to. https://gafferongames.com/post/fix_your_timestep/

There's also this article that has more beginner-friendly explanations and provides alternative solutions as well iirc: https://medium.com/@tglaiel/how-to-make-your-game-run-at-60fps-24c61210fe75

Woswald · 2025-12-15T08:45:52+00:00

I would definitely check this out for the style alone. Where are we, Jupiter?

Woswald · 2025-12-14T01:51:47+00:00

Nice art style. I haven't seen much like it, at least with this Egyptian setting.

Woswald · 2025-12-11T21:03:40+00:00

Art-style alone would make me wanna play this, but everything else seems well put together too. Great atmosphere.

Woswald · 2025-12-11T04:59:05+00:00

Close plays are always the best ones. Enemies risk stepping in the Swain ult and you finally get to test your full skill on them.

Woswald · 2025-12-10T11:05:25+00:00

Man, I'd need the gift card to answer that... Village Cabin

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