Can you play through this game consistently?

[aRkedos]

Hey,

I never played a real rogue game. Is it Possible to Play through this game consistently? Or is there too much RNG involved? Reading about people finally beating the game after years for the first time makes me wonder.

[Riwweer]

Well, if you pick up powerful combo, such as troll healer born under candle, then you can consistently play through the early, early-mid game. If you mean playing consistently through the whole game, that is only possible by knowing a lot about the game mechanics and secrets.

[Adversary]

This game's well-documented and there's no shame in looking stuff up on the wiki, unless you dislike spoilers for some reason. Winning does require you to do certain things though, especially if you want certain kinds of endings. Course, there's some leeway as to what you might need to do, depending on build.

For example, you probably don't need both Frostbolt and bridge-building for one part of the game. But that part in particular is just there to make getting past another part easier. And you don't have to spare every cat in the game, as the artifact you get towards the end is optional. But if you do, you get something nice that might help. And you don't necessarily need an amulet of life-saving unless you're going for a special ending. But it sure would be nice to have an extra life that doesn't somehow involve playing a necromancer.

Though you will want some manner of both fire resistance and equipment/inventory protection against fire for one particular part of the game - and if you go in there as a drakeling you might have a real bad time. That's one thing I recall as being mandatory across all builds - fire resistance and equipment/inventory protection against fire.

Unless you roll a Monk, in which case you could maybe do without the latter, but not the former. Don't quote me on that.

[vysionier]

After you figure out all the tactics, and know where the guaranteed stuff is, you can pretty consistently win the basic game. It’s when you start expecting an ultra with a ring of the master cat with becoming Rolf’s bestie that you really start having a hard go of it.

[Sputnik]

Originally posted by aRkedos:

Hey,

I never played a real rogue game. Is it Possible to Play through this game consistently? Or is there too much RNG involved? Reading about people finally beating the game after years for the first time makes me wonder.

Unsure what do you mean. Do you mean save-scumming to cheese the Random Number Generator for better combat and loot outcomes?

[aRkedos]

No I just wanted to know if you can playthrough the game and reach the end if you want to do so (= "consitently")., or if the RNG systems allow for things to happen that make it too hard or nearly impossible for your current playthrough. Or in other words: does the expierienced player know if he will be able to finish the game when he starts it?

That there is a learning curve before one does finish the game for the first time is self explanatory.

Not talking about save scumming.

[Yulgash]

Probably the only truly unpreventable deaths would be from wilderness encounter ambushes and snake pit traps. Both of which will only be an issue at the very start of the game when you choose a weak race/class combination. Every death after that is going to be down to carelessness, impatience, or lack of knowledge; it's an extremely consistent game if you know your stuff and play carefully.

[cyrilverba]

LMAO. It's almost a quarter of a century that I've been playing ADOM. No victory so far. Hope that answers your question.

[mjkittredge]

Most deaths will happen in the early game as you don't have the escape options or HP to survive sudden surprises and spikes in difficulty. IF you know the strategies to play it safe and not take risks, you can pretty consistently get through the early game.

And once you get to mid game and know what you're doing, it's hard to lose because you have momentum. The consistency of characters that make it to mid game then win is very high, you have a lot of tools to mitigate bad RNG, such as immunities, full heals, teleportation etc. But if you don't know what you're doing or take risks it's very easy to die.

[Xeno42]

remember one of my runs i was a mage and i got an enemy from a lower depths level. it was also invisible.,made no indication that is was there, and then killed me in one hit

[Devoras]

The consistent thing about the game is you will die. I have also been playing ADOM for decades and never won, I don't think I've even come close to winning. Most of the time(like 95% of the time) I have a character die before finishing a single quest. But it's still a very fun game.

[allanvv]

I've played this game off and on for the last decade and never beat it legitimately, usually dying in the first 25% of the game and only reaching near the end a few times. This is with reading spoilers

[Nattfarinn]

Originally posted by Yulgash:

Probably the only truly unpreventable deaths would be from wilderness encounter ambushes and snake pit traps. Both of which will only be an issue at the very start of the game when you choose a weak race/class combination. Every death after that is going to be down to carelessness, impatience, or lack of knowledge; it's an extremely consistent game if you know your stuff and play carefully.

This has to be a hilarious joke I don't understand. :P

[lar unuruur]

yes, can win normal ending with consistency. my checkpoints are acient chaos wyrm and mana temple. if they passed, win should be in pocked.