Shout-outs to the updates that have come along to fortress mode as well. More soundtrack (and it's so good) and so many little quality of life things.
They'll be going back to more regular updates to fortress mode now as well.
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From the kitfox interviews ive watched, most of what was added to adventure mode will be added to fortress mode.
Love this game. Wish I had time to play it like I used to.
I goofed around in Adventure Mode a decade ago and kept spawning new characters trying to find a necromancer's tower filled with zombies, BUT with a magic book that makes you undead / immortal. Eventually I got it, which was cool, until I realized that as enemies hack at you you lose body parts. I think by the end I was like a single finger or something absurd?
Which poison do I pick first, Dwarf Fortress or Caves of Qud?
If you go with dwarf fortress get DFHack. It's free on steam as well. You can automate some aspects of the game so you can learn one mechanic at a time instead of getting swarmed by everything all at once.
Lots of good guides online to. Nookrium and Blind helped me understand what the hell was happening.
Blind definitely helped me understand DF a lot better.
I couldn't say as I haven't played Caves, but I really enjoyed dwarf fortress! It's quite difficult though and I'm honestly not sure what the article was on about adventure mode being more accessible. I thought it was more difficult!
Agreed! But then again, it depends on the player I think. Someone that loves DND and never played SimCity I guess... maybe? I come from a background the other way around XD
Adventure mode is more accessible compared to the previous versions of DF, but still more difficult than Fortress mode which is still difficult.
i reckon qud is the smaller burden between the two. in terms of both how much you’ll need to learn, and how much of your life it will eat once you do.
Dwarf Fortress goes Rimworld?
What? Rimworld has always been a simplified 2D copycat of Dwarf Fortress.
DF adventure mode has existed for over a decade before the game got launched on Steam.
Oh hey so that's actually correct
Rimworld is a Framework, you expand it with mods. I've got about 150 of them nicely playing together.
Dwarf Fortress has quite a bit of mods that expand the world by quite a bit. Though ofc it also has a lot more features than Rimworld does in terms of simulating a world in the base game, so no surprises there.
Also easy to make mods when graphics can take a small backseat in the non steam version.
Sure, i didn't say that dwarf fortress wasn't more complex. Just wanted to point out that rimworld is not all there is.
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