[Dungeon Defenders] - Dungeon Defenders II: The Dungeoning coming soon! Free-to-play!

The Dude With Herpes

Played the demo. The game clearly needs to be played multiplayer as it's, IMO obviously, pretty boring solo. As I kind of thought from that WTF video, everything just moves so damn slow. Even for a Tower Defense game it just feels like I'm constantly running through jello. Granted, I only got to level 7 but I was pretty damn tempted to point every point ever into speed because fuck you move slow.

I'd have to play with others though to really get a feel for how the game is supposed to be played; because solo clear isn't it. You move too slow, and there are way too many directions enemies come in to be intended to play alone.

Lepwave

Seems like the latest update made the keybindings not stick, whoops.

taliosfalcon

Does this work w/ the 360 controller on pc?

joshgotro

Apparently I'm a loot whore.

Mahnmut

The Dude With Herpes wrote:

Played the demo. The game clearly needs to be played multiplayer as it's, IMO obviously, pretty boring solo. As I kind of thought from that WTF video, everything just moves so damn slow. Even for a Tower Defense game it just feels like I'm constantly running through jello. Granted, I only got to level 7 but I was pretty damn tempted to point every point ever into speed because fuck you move slow.

I'd have to play with others though to really get a feel for how the game is supposed to be played; because solo clear isn't it. You move too slow, and there are way too many directions enemies come in to be intended to play alone.

Battle phase can get pretty hectic depending on difficulty vs. your level. Build phase -- you're exactly right. The biggest bottleneck is running laps for the chests, which obviously would be less silly with 4 people on.

CorriganX

taliosfalcon wrote:

Does this work w/ the 360 controller on pc?

Yes

Decoy

Lepwave wrote:

Seems like the latest update made the keybindings not stick, whoops.

And replaced my disconnects with freezes.

taliosfalcon

CorriganX wrote:

taliosfalcon wrote:

Does this work w/ the 360 controller on pc?

Yes

Hurray i apparently have some sort of repetitive mouse whatever damage to my right shoulder so no right handed mousing for the next month so i am on the hunt for controller enabled games

SightTDW

It replaced my "playing flawlessly" with "I don't think I'll be touching the game for a day or so."

Tridus1x

This game is awesome and josh is a lootwhore bastard kill-stealing mothergooser.

Some of these maps get pretty tough though, probably the reason why this game is so good.

joshgotro

Tridus1x wrote:

This game is awesome and josh is a lootwhore bastard kill-stealing mothergooser.

Some of these maps get pretty tough though, probably the reason why this game is so good.

We should probably go through the game on Easy with new characters.

Decoy

joshgotro wrote:

Tridus1x wrote:

This game is awesome and josh is a lootwhore bastard kill-stealing mothergooser.

Some of these maps get pretty tough though, probably the reason why this game is so good.

We should probably go through the game on Easy with new characters.

If you have an open slot, and don't mind another person. I'd be more than happy to join you*.

*Connection to Trendy pending, of course.

taliosfalcon

Decoy wrote:

joshgotro wrote:

Tridus1x wrote:

This game is awesome and josh is a lootwhore bastard kill-stealing mothergooser.

Some of these maps get pretty tough though, probably the reason why this game is so good.

We should probably go through the game on Easy with new characters.

If you have an open slot, and don't mind another person. I'd be more than happy to join you*.

*Connection to Trendy pending, of course.

easy? pfft, are ye mice or men?

joshgotro

taliosfalcon wrote:

Decoy wrote:

joshgotro wrote:

Tridus1x wrote:

This game is awesome and josh is a lootwhore bastard kill-stealing mothergooser.

Some of these maps get pretty tough though, probably the reason why this game is so good.

We should probably go through the game on Easy with new characters.

If you have an open slot, and don't mind another person. I'd be more than happy to join you*.

*Connection to Trendy pending, of course.

easy? pfft, are ye mice or men?

I like to get a handle on the game before it rides my anus into the sunset.

Decoy

taliosfalcon wrote:

easy? pfft, are ye mice or men?

Honestly, difficult doesn't bother me. I'd just like to play without constant DCs and occasional game freezes. Hopefully stuff will get sorted out and fixed.

It just stinks that Local works fine, but Ranked is what I want to play. Hah.

harvest

I played the first level solo on Medium as the Apprentice and totally wrecked it. Of course it's just the first level but apprentice towers are pretty powerful. Direct attack, not so much. Using the knockback to get the creeps off your towers so they don't get so damaged is a good strategy. Going to play the game with a friend starting shortly, we'll see how it goes in multi

joshgotro

Go play medium with a monk.

CorriganX

Apprentice seems really good at low levels. Their first tower is actually useful. I liked the look of the monk, and his first tower is damn near useless solo. However once you get some levels under your belt, getting a Squire partner is amazing. Their barriers can hold enemies in monk's lightning cloud and really destroy things that aren't immune to electricity.

Taranis

I, along with all of the pubbies i saw last night, am playing a monk. I'm liking him so far, but his towers are pretty awful. seems like you need a high dps to solo as a monk.

joshgotro

Taranis wrote:

I, along with all of the pubbies i saw last night, am playing a monk. I'm liking him so far, but his towers are pretty awful. seems like you need a high dps to solo as a monk.

I got up to 244(DPS) and it was still difficult to run a level on medium solo.

Taranis

joshgotro wrote:

Taranis wrote:

I, along with all of the pubbies i saw last night, am playing a monk. I'm liking him so far, but his towers are pretty awful. seems like you need a high dps to solo as a monk.

I got up to 244(DPS) and it was still difficult to run a level on medium solo.

I almost beat both the second and first levels on medium with a monk. I'm specced in strength and speed aura. I throw down as many ensare/electricity traps as i can at every chokepoint, and run around killing anything that makes it past my traps. I think i should be able to beat the second area after i hit the next level (7). He's really good, just really fragile.

Mahnmut

joshgotro wrote:

Taranis wrote:

I, along with all of the pubbies i saw last night, am playing a monk. I'm liking him so far, but his towers are pretty awful. seems like you need a high dps to solo as a monk.

I got up to 244(DPS) and it was still difficult to run a level on medium solo.

Monk really seems to cry out for a partner.

I decided to try playing a Tower-focused Squire. Good times. Dude's traps are absurd (at least at low levels).

I've been wondering which class would be the best candidate for a Hero-focused build. Squire or hunter maybe?

joshgotro

I enjoyed jumping behind a group stuck in front of an appretices' towers and going crazy. Just wish I didn't have to jump away after two swings.

Corpekata

Squire probably best bet for hero focus. He's not squishy innately, has some good attacks and easy ways to gather foes up to go berserk on them, and his default attacks cover a wide swath. Hunter needing to reload all the time and narrow focus (at least early on) would probably be a pain.

SightTDW

I've been mainly playing Monk with my friend as Squire and we've been pretty successful. The two sets of towers compliment each other very well.

Corpekata

Anyways, game does get pretty tough pretty fast. Only had 3 players, last wave of level 2 what with the kamikaze dynamtiers and the Ogre just wrecked us. Imagine the gear and experience from the level will make it easier the next go round. Also, Electric Auras are pretty godly. Stick em in front of a Blockade and just watch the dummies melt away.

vegeta_666

Beat the second and third level solo on Medium with the Apprentice, finally figured out a good strategy and my towers just wreck every wave except the last one (when an Ogre comes) and by then it doesn't matter.

I'm having fun by myself but I definitely want to play multi soon.

FlipprDolphin

is local co-op ok or kind of difficult/confusing?

Peons

Looks like TrendyNet just took a massive dump for those that were playing online/ranked. Hopefully there isn't a massive loss, but their main website appears to be borked too. (16:45 Central time)

Edit: Looks like they're back up, no major rollbacks but I lost what I got in the game I was currently in.

Lepwave

Just submitted a patch to Valve fixing keybindings not working and tab not opening chat. #DungeonDefedners is getting patched again!
14 minutes ago

Sterica

That patch is now on Steam.

Decoy

Well.... Yet another 6/6 Combat phase DC prob did it in for me playing Online for a bit. Local play time.

Edit: And while yes, it still has issues after a few hot fixes, at least theyre working on it. Then again, would you rather people's perception of you be negligent or incompetent. Hah.

Corpekata

Looks like they took Trendynet down for half an hour. Really, probably better off just playing Open stuff right now.

strebalicious

Yup, this game definitely needs communication. Just on the second stage, I was playing with three other people and we got trounced on the last wave. We kind of all just took one entrance and killed anything that passed, and the Huntress kind of put random traps out there and helped kill. But for some reason, on the next to the last round, the other squire's defenses got trashed and a few creatures made it to the crystal. Well after that wave, I went down to repair my towers, and then over help build up the broken defenses. Well guess what, there were no towers there, and the huntress and apprentice with us used up the last of the defensive units. Needless to say, I couldn't melee all of them.

Morkath

Hmm this looks interesting, I might pick this up tonight.

Taranis

This game is really good.

Anyone looking for a coop partner should add me on steam
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Decoy

Fun bug: My Music Volume is set to almost silent in the "Options>General" screen. As soon as I click "Play Online>Ranked" it blasts it back up to default.

Broncbuster

Will be looking for a 4th and possibly 3rd depending, tonight after 10PM PST if anyone is around.

taliosfalcon

are the tf2 pets and portal gun supposed to show up in your armory box thing? because mine..are not...:(

vegeta_666

taliosfalcon wrote:

are the tf2 pets and portal gun supposed to show up in your armory box thing? because mine..are not...:(

They're in crates with chains on them in your tavern, have to open them first and pick them up.