• [VIDEO] Dwarf Fortress Review | Strike The Earth™ | Praise ᚨᚱᛗᛟᚲ SsethTzeentach
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FW23bamIZI
What, when did 3d dwarf fortress happen? Maybe I can finally break through and play it.
mods. there are ton of "newbie"-friendly mods out there for those who find the primitive graphics too hard to follow
Is it a realtime 3d mod? I remember there was one that allowed you to export your save, and then turn it into a 3d render.
Dont use those awful tile mods, just change the color set at and you will be fine. (The default colors kinda burn my retina at 3am no kil pls)
Cool! Can I see your sword?
I think it's worth suffering through ASCII for a little while so you can interpret what's going on without it, then switching to a tileset if you prefer. I wanted to use a tileset when I started but once I played for a few hours I realized my desire to use one disappeared. Now all I use is a square ASCII replacement instead of the asymmetric one that is inexplicably the default. Really, getting into DF is just a matter of pushing through the first few hours of play where you have no idea what's going on until you figure out the very basics and what you should be doing immediately upon starting a fortress. Anything more complicated is then easy to look up on the wiki and it gets hella addictive.
Kinda. You can't really play while viewing through it, its a separate application that shows the current map in real time in 3D. Its pretty neat but buggy at times.
Apparently you've been able to use Stonesense to play a 3d version of DF since 2014 though I've never bothered to use it so I can't say for sure how well it works.
Using a square ascii tileset, with natural colour scheme, makes it totally fine for the eyes. I prefer this over graphical tilesets. You still need to learn what the stuff represents, but it's much more pleasant to play than the game's default non-square ascii and extremely eye rapey colours. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/89/8aa9eda8-d253-4acd-8e87-f567c5faa695/Apexrooms-33-region6-202-4038.png Also the video is fucking amazing.
By the time Vegeta entered the picture I was laughing so much I was on the verge of throwing up from laughing so much. That was fun.
I can't advocate how worth slugging through the learning curve in DF is. I had two miners accidentally mine into hell, one stayed behind while the other began to run away. I ordered them to start walling off the chamber they were in. The one that stayed behind began to fight the demons as they swarmed out of the little hole, and delayed them just enough for the wall to be finished and the chamber sealed. I had a stone-worker engrave an image of his choice on the wall outside the sealed chamber. It was a dwarf (the dwarf that died, specifically), surrounded by demons. The dwarf was laughing.
Seems a bit lame to rip footage from other people's dwarf fortress videos, that compared with how tame some of the events he described are makes me wonder how much of it he actually played for the video.
haha I bet <1K hrs
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