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The changes remove some of the most memorable moments: - Eating questionable meat for random powers - Losing your great items permanently - Not getting poiso

The changes remove some of the most memorable moments: - Eating questionable meat for random powers - Losing your great items permanently - Not getting poison resistance and putting off the hive for ages - Not being able to carry as much as a weak character - Putting a stash on Hive:2 so monsters can't get your items - Being a mummy summoner and having a full screen of summons (no hunger requirement) - Hill orc priests would wander the map gaining converts A lot of these things became part of the game muscle memory to avoid. They were hilarious and emotional as a new player. They are now obsolete. I have mixed feelings - I always felt enough mitigation existed in the game and I enjoyed learning about it

floatboth 5y ago
Hive was a cute thing but I absolutely do not miss item destruction and weight management lol
- ludamad 5y ago
  Item destruction I found okay because randarts were immune and it made them feel special. They could have went down the route of mitigation but I respect their clean design ethos Weight management - yes, hard to have too much nostalgia for that one
nvarsj 5y ago
I really miss being able to play a SpEn backstabber. It was the highlight of my DCSS experience. Such a fun, if slightly overpowered, combo. Then they took invisibility out of the enhancer starting book.
- simias 5y ago
  I started replaying DCSS last week after a hiatus of about two years, SpEn is one of my go-to backgrounds and it's still quite fun IMO. You can worship Dithmenos to get increased stealth. It's not as OP as invisibility but it's still quite fun once you get your stealth to a high level.
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- 1_player 5y ago
  It's still viable even without invisibility. Petrify, Ensorcelled Hibernation, Uskayaw and Dithmenos are still there. My last win was an Spriggan Venom Mage that could backstab poison resistant enemies with a +11 artefact dagger.

floatboth 5y ago

Hive was a cute thing but I absolutely do not miss item destruction and weight management lol

ludamad 5y ago
Item destruction I found okay because randarts were immune and it made them feel special. They could have went down the route of mitigation but I respect their clean design ethos Weight management - yes, hard to have too much nostalgia for that one

nvarsj 5y ago

I really miss being able to play a SpEn backstabber. It was the highlight of my DCSS experience. Such a fun, if slightly overpowered, combo. Then they took invisibility out of the enhancer starting book.

simias 5y ago
I started replaying DCSS last week after a hiatus of about two years, SpEn is one of my go-to backgrounds and it's still quite fun IMO. You can worship Dithmenos to get increased stealth. It's not as OP as invisibility but it's still quite fun once you get your stealth to a high level.
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1_player 5y ago
It's still viable even without invisibility. Petrify, Ensorcelled Hibernation, Uskayaw and Dithmenos are still there. My last win was an Spriggan Venom Mage that could backstab poison resistant enemies with a +11 artefact dagger.