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Mola_Ram 18 Mar 2020 09:26:28 22,783 posts
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I always go for it, because I enjoy the challenge of balancing the adding of cards for fights coming up in the short term, versus the looming question of "will this deck beat the heart?"

Sometimes I get the balance right, sometimes I don't, sometimes I get lucky and sometimes even a good deck gets unlucky. That's part of the magic of roguelikes for me.

Totally understand if people don't want that from the game, but yeah... I always try to kill the heart.

Duffking 18 Mar 2020 09:42:22 16,523 posts
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I don't really find there's much of the balancing act with the heart, if I want to go for the heart I just decide at the start of Act 3 because by that point I should have basically completed my deck anyway.

Murbs 18 Mar 2020 09:42:56 24,691 posts
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Don’t get me wrong - I’ll still go for the heart and have beaten it with all 3 characters (can’t wait for the Watcher!), but until I get to A20, the first time I pass each rank it will probably be over 3 acts.

So far - A8 Ironclad, A2 Silent, A3 Defect.

Occasionally I’ll drop to A1 for the lols. And to keep a decent W/L ratio naturally ;-)

Edited by Murbs at 09:43:43 18-03-2020

TechnoHippy 21 Mar 2020 11:47:02 16,311 posts
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Finally the Heart is dead! I thought I was a goner when it took my Defect's health down to 13 in the second hit, but some timely orb boosts put me on enough frost to survive everything else it thew at me.

Rogueywon Most Generous Forumite, 2016 21 Mar 2020 12:14:34 8,024 posts
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A18 now on the Defect. Shit gets very, very serious past A15.

Murbs 23 Mar 2020 21:08:10 24,691 posts
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Switch users get the update downloaded! We have Watcher

yegon 23 Mar 2020 21:17:39 6,455 posts
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YES!

Nice timing for myriad reasons, heh.

oldskooldeano 24 Mar 2020 01:18:45 2,983 posts
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Xbox has it too. What with this and Disney+, three weeks of self isolation is going to be a doddle!

Mola_Ram 25 Mar 2020 02:55:32 22,783 posts
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Lol, just started on the switch after the update, smashed a Defect run, killed the heart and everything, and thought "wow, this is a lot easier than I remember it being!"

Turned out I didn't have the "do ascension" box checked.

Mola_Ram 25 Mar 2020 02:58:28 22,783 posts
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Oh by the way, Biased Cognition + Orange Pellets is just *chef's kiss*

yegon 25 Mar 2020 16:29:27 6,455 posts
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Old news for PC players, but playing Watcher feels wildly different, which is impressive.

Only had a couple of (unsuccessful) runs with her so far, already strikes me that she has the potential to be massively OP whilst also as fragile as gossamer if the cards don’t fall right. Love it!

Edited by yegon at 16:30:03 25-03-2020

Rogueywon Most Generous Forumite, 2016 25 Mar 2020 16:30:39 8,024 posts
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Made it to A20 as the Defect last night. Double Act 3 boss, on top of all the other penalties. Bloody hell...

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