Meritous

[Cletis]

http://www.asceai.net/meritous/meritous_logo.jpg

http://www.asceai.net/meritous/scr/screen1_full.png

http://www.asceai.net/meritous/scr/screen3_full.png

http://www.asceai.net/meritous/


i searched and didnt see anything on it.

idk if rpg section or what but im having alot of fun lol

[Not Kuno]

It reminds me of Nethack.

What type of game is it?

[Cletis]

theres no real story from what im seeing

you go around in the rooms.. 3000 of them apparently. move with wasd or arrow keys. hold space to hold charge. and release your psi circuit. kill the moster things with your emp charge. some take alot more than others.

can upgrade your shield.. charge up rate.. or cooldown.

it seems like corny 80's music to me ^^

[Not Kuno]

After playing it for a few hours I can say... I don't really like that game. It starts off fine then gets to a point where it's impossible to get upgrades. If you die you lose a ton of money and upgrades cost an even larger amount of money.. I cant see how you can really win considering the enemies run out and still give you shitty money. Kinda dissapointed since the game was kinda fun, I was wondering why I could never pass 5mil and its because I'd drop to like 2m every time a boss beat me (and now needing 8 mil more for next upgrade :/).

[Cletis]

holy shit i only been playing for 50min lol

[Not Kuno]

I played from when I first posted till when I replied again so.. 4 hours? It's kind of fun, but I don't like how impossible it is to get upgrades. I had like 75% of mobs killed and they just get ALOT harder and all upgrades require so much more money. Ung. Definatly needs some tweaking.

[crazyrabbit]

Kinda sucks when you go into a room and stand right on top of a mob and lose a heart instantly. After i brought the 3 weapons to their places i lived like 10min only, because the jump in power from mobs is just stupidly high. Will try it again but this time going to kill as much mobs as posible before doing anything with the weapon artifakts.

[Not Kuno]

Finally beat this game. It said 2 weapons were still unrecovered at the end. Arg gdi.

Either way, the 3rd fight of the alien guy was harder then the last boss. His 4th form kept killing me instantly, but the last boss was alot easier. :/ Also at the very end when you get the pendant was batshit insane too.

I had a really cheap trick for getting good stats though. X) Don't open ANY treasure chests and just farm your ass off, clearing each treasure chest room. Remember where they all are as well. When you get alot of money and buy alot of upgrades and think you have a good amount of them (ie when they get to 1m+ each is when they arnt worth it), save and open chests. I recommend maxing sheild so open a chest till you get shield, if not restart the game, if you get it then run back and save before you open any others. Do this till all the chests are opened. I never noticed the recharge having much effect, but I still had it high anyway, but high shield is VERY noticable and should be maxed. Doing that trick, the super ultra expensive upgrades at the end are free (cause they came from the chest) and it's possible to get high stats.

[Charla]

A couple of the unique upgrades are really important, so if you can remember or record which chests give them (mostly the monocle thing, runspeed and crystal efficiency) then you could get those and leave the random chests.

[Krye]

Didn't enjoy it.

EDIT: I take it back, this game is awesome!

[Not Kuno]

A couple of the unique upgrades are really important, so if you can remember or record which chests give them (mostly the monocle thing, runspeed and crystal efficiency) then you could get those and leave the random chests.

Yeah if you wanna save and try to get each unique treasure then it's worth it. I'm also a fan of the crystal gatherer and shield regen. Getting shields up in that half a second you arnt being shot at is pretty useful.

Anyone have any idea how to get the hidden treasures? I dont feel like killing every mob or exploring every room.

[Krye]

A couple of the unique upgrades are really important, so if you can remember or record which chests give them (mostly the monocle thing, runspeed and crystal efficiency) then you could get those and leave the random chests.

Yeah if you wanna save and try to get each unique treasure then it's worth it. I'm also a fan of the crystal gatherer and shield regen. Getting shields up in that half a second you arnt being shot at is pretty useful.

Anyone have any idea how to get the hidden treasures? I dont feel like killing every mob or exploring every room.

If you mean the power boost items like the monocle, crystal gatherer, etc. then the darker grey arrow on the compass tile points to the treasure rooms.

EDIT: Btw, I got all the items and won, fun times.

[Charla]

Well I know there's a second ending, because there's a screen for it in the dat folder. Any idea how to get it? I got to 100% explored and cleared, with 1 room and 1 monster short, but still got the normal ending.

edit: got it. Just explore every room, it gives you max power and unlocks the last boss's hyper mode.

[Krye]

Is it a better ending or perhaps the ending for easy mode?

[Charla]

There's a total of three final ending screens. The one I've got says "normal ending" in the corner. The other one looks a bit more impressive and has some sheet music in the background. The easy mode ending is a bad MS paint with some text from an IRC conversation.

You can see for yourself btw, it's all just .png files.

[Seditedi]

Well I know there's a second ending, because there's a screen for it in the dat folder. Any idea how to get it? I got to 100% explored and cleared, with 1 room and 1 monster short, but still got the normal ending.

It baffles me how people can actually play through that shit game. lol

[Krye]

How the Hell is the difficulty of this game calculated?

Last night I was having to use fucked up kiting tactics to outrun the 10 monsters that would run in from other rooms every time I entered a new room and I would have to charge to full to kill even the weakest ones.

And tonight I load up my game and I barely have to tap the spacebar to kill the harder monsters.

Then out of nowhere 50 monsters just ran in all together and tried to zerg the shit out of me.

...

[Seditedi]

Don't play it, it sucks.

[Charla]

Sage goes in every field!

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