Quest Mode Difficulty?

[Terazilla]

Hey, I've really been digging Crawl Tactics, and after successfully finishing a run I started playing Quest mode (Veteran difficulty). This seems cool, but I've run into a total wall and really am wondering if I'm doing something wrong here.

I started out by just doing a few Hunts, aiming to get my party to level 2 or 3. I bought the upgrade to five party members pretty quickly and the first buildings I built were Tavern, Weapon Shop, Skill Shop, and Altar of Promotion. Somewhere in there I did the first Exploration run and finished it without much trouble. I took a bit getting my newer party members caught up and started attempting the second Exploration run.

I'm baffled by how much this has consistently demolished me. I'm not sure how the scaling works, it says they're difficulty 5/6 and the Hunt options are 1/2/3. The Exploration missions are two rooms, and I have no problems at all with the first room. However the boss room consistently generates a boss character with something like 120-150hp, enough armor that they only take a few points of damage from many/most things, and enough damage to get my characters to death's door in one shot. A couple times they were backed up by archers who automatically took a shot every time I moved within their range, I have no idea how to deal with that.

I did some grinding, enough to get the weapon and skills shop to level 3. So my characters have good damage and completely steamroll a level 3 Hunt, and the first level 5/6 Exploration room is similarly no big deal. The boss fight seems so out of band that I'm genuinely confused. I've gotten to the point where I've whittled it down to just the boss and maybe one other guy, a few times. But it's so easy for him to wreck my characters I end up retrying a couple times and eventually retreating.

Somebody else here said they'd played through Quest mode a couple times so I'm seriously wondering what I'm doing wrong. Is there something I'm overlooking here?

[Terazilla]

Just to throw a couple of actual feedback items in here:

Weapons with elemental damage say something like 6 damage, then lower down they'll say "5 fire" for example. I assume this means the total is 11 damage, then? It's hard to tell.

A couple times I completed a Hunt but my inventory was full. As far as I can tell the reward item simply disappeared. I had space in my storage, it should probably try to go there if it can't do anything else.

[icefill]

Hello, Several people also pointed out the quest mode's unbalancrd early difficulty problem. I am currently working on class improvement so I will fix the issue after it. Sorry for inconveniance. I will improve the damage description of the weapons and fix the item disappearing issue as you said too. Thanks for letting me know

[Terazilla]

Cool, much appreciated! One more bug report and a suggestion:

The update added the ability to assign hotkeys to items, but it doesn't work on scrolls, unfortunately.

In a previous run I did an event that let me build a dragon-folk tent in town and recruit them. Super cool but by then I had a pretty leveled party already. Might be cool to unlock this long-term as a meta item, or unlock a starting team of them when it happens. Not sure if this exists for other races too, but it's a fun idea.

[icefill]

Originally posted by Terazilla:

Cool, much appreciated! One more bug report and a suggestion:

The update added the ability to assign hotkeys to items, but it doesn't work on scrolls, unfortunately.

In a previous run I did an event that let me build a dragon-folk tent in town and recruit them. Super cool but by then I had a pretty leveled party already. Might be cool to unlock this long-term as a meta item, or unlock a starting team of them when it happens. Not sure if this exists for other races too, but it's a fun idea.

Thanks for letting me know! The hotkey bug is fixed. I will check out the dragon merc camp's unit levels.