Nethack deaths

2006-05-13 06:41:55

I've just started (over) playing Nethack... I had played a bit when I was younger, but never got past lvl 12 or so...  Now, I just keep dying, but I have basic gameplay covered.  It's impressively hard!

I just died 5 times today.. Soldier ants, Black puddings, An Incubus, A Shopkeeper, and an arrow trap

If you feel like it, talk about your Nethack or other Slash'EM / *Hack variant deaths here...

Nethack deaths

Reply #1 – 2006-05-13 07:38:32

I've only tried NetHack, ADOM, Angband, and Rogue, in that order. My favourite was ADOM.

In ADOM, I've been to the places clearly visible on the world-map, but I've never gone very far.

Nethack deaths

Reply #2 – 2006-05-14 06:12:37

I LOVE Nethack. I never ascended, the most far I got was The Quest level of Valkyrie, usually I have no problems finishing Gnomish Mines & Sokoban, but then things get tricky.
In old Amiga days I was playing some other rogue games, like Larn, Moria, ADOM, Angband, and Zangband, but Nethack is the best IMO.
There's an incredible tileset for Nethack - Absurd.
Also, spoilers are a must.

Hmmm, my most Yet Another Stupid Death (YASD) was when I was wielding cockatrice corpse (you can instantly petrify enemies with it), in gloves of course, but I was burdened so when I tried to walk down the stairs to next level, this is what happened:
You fall down the stairs.
You touched cockatrice corpse.
You die.


There was one more YASD - my pet (tame dog or cat) stepped onto a polymorphing trap and changed into Arch-Lich (one of the most powerfull creatures in the game). That was great, through many levels my Arch-Lich was instantly killing all the nasties (including Shopkeepers  ) and I was on a good way to ascend with such a pet, but then Umber Hulk showed up. I was so self confident that I didn't check in the spoilers what kind of creature an Umber Hulk is. Now I know that it's a relatively weak creature, but its attacks are confusing, so when my Arch-Lich attacked Umber Hulk, he got confused (confused pets may attack their owners), and on the very next turn my confused Arch-Lich has cast a Death or Disintegrate spell on me. Oh well.

Nethack deaths

Reply #3 – 2006-05-15 00:19:56

Love the story, rutra80.

Nethack deaths

Reply #4 – 2006-06-06 12:22:43

http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php

If you like reading about YASDs, here's a nice webcomic.

Nethack deaths

Reply #5 – 2006-06-07 21:32:46

I definitely LOVE NetHack. It's so great that “devTeam thinks of everything”! For real, see how I died on the 21st of January, 2005 (oh, the date has no meaning here ).

Watch every string in console carefully:



And if you didn't understand how did I manage to die, check this screenshot telling the reason:



LOL, I find this quite funny!

About NetHack, I also very much like the idea of bones. If a vampire kills you, you may find yourself as a young vampire in the next game while playing another incarnation. And he may kill you too. (I hope my English makes sense)

And, beware! I highly disrecommend using spoilers. It is much more enjoying to discover the specific features of the game by yourself.