I always start with two blessed scrolls of charging. Then usually blessed greased +2 gray or silver dragon scale mail unless I need something else. Or you might want to wait until Sokoban to find out if you get reflection. I always hate getting killed because I waited on using something I had that would have saved me though.
I did the scrolls right out of the gate, tried to find Sokoban, then threw my hands up in frustration at all of my avenues being blocked by locked doors near nymphs, wished for blessed +2 GDSM and blessed +2 STR gauntlets (and got neither of the +2s to stick, oh well), got almost all of my shit stolen by another nymph and had to chase her ass around the level with
Probably best to get out of Sokoban or go down to a cleared level before eating a corpse that stuns you. I think it's a rule if you ever get incredibly lucky early in a run and get something that should be a win button item, you nearly immediately go full retard and somehow get killed.
I think the last version I played was 3.4.3 (right after they shortened some of the late mid sections). I see it's up to 3.6 ish now. Are there major changes or new content worth coming back to, or is it mostly bugfixes and patching exploits?
I haven't really played it since the new versions. The last time I completed it was probably 3.4.2. I still have that version and the latest, but haven't played the latest much.
The server I'm running on (which uses tiles because I am a dirty pleb) is running 3.7.0 - apparently in its current state it's a beta of some sort for the actual release of 3.7.0 that you have to pull and manually compile from Git or something. I know I'm not explaining it properly because I don't speak code monkey, but there is a changelog on the wiki, with the biggest takeaway I remember is unihorns not restoring lost stats any longer. Pretty sure 3.4.4 -> 3.6.x has been mostly bugfix stuff, though.
I didn't have a tinning kit and didn't want to miss the opportunity. I know impulse is what gets one killed in this game, but I didn't know just how goddamed long one of those stuns you when you eat it. Hence, YASD.
Well what is even the point of killing unicorns anymore? Some things can't be left well enough alone
Poison resistance, and also the principle of the thing.
I guess I just like it better when updates give me something new as opposed to taking something away
Keep going, it gets better and better.
They're still a (mediocre) melee weapon, can cure things other than abilities, cursed ones can give you afflictions, if you want them (like confusion), and you can identify potions with them. Of course by the time a unicorn is an easy kill you probably have identified most potions anyway. You can still throw gems at them for luck instead of killing them.
There is all that. I guess it's just starting to feel a bit like the devteam is out of bugs and is moving onto things that were nice and/or advantageous to the player
Some of the changes in 3.7 sound pretty nice.
The community is somewhat mixed considering that it's "Free" compared to the actually free that the original was. It is a fairly faithful recreation of the original game, however, any house fancier than a Cozy Estate requires "Diamonds" (real money) to purchase, allies can be acquired via a gacha system, and shops reset on a real-life timer instead of an in-game one.
