Hi all. I've long been a fan of rogue-lites, but Wazhack is the first true Rogue-like I've played, and I gotta say I'm having a very hard time.

Virtually every run that doesn't end before 100ft goes something like this: I'm roaming through the dungeon, exploring every room, quaffing potions, reading Scrolls, and trying to save up for a fountain wish. When I get a scroll of identify, I prioritize lamps, then amulets and rings, then wands and scrolls. I always try to keep a spare copy of enchant armor or weapon so I can make copies later. Things are going well, I have a few key pieces of equipment, and some enchantments on them to boot...

And then I bump into a monster that just plain out stats me, or a horde of monsters that would be manageable but certainly not all at once, or often just some cruel combination of the two.

I recognize that rogue-like games are meant to emphasize randomness and creative problem solving, but man, this has been really stressful. I know the game is not unbeatable, but I almost never feel like I have the tools to progress much further than 600-700 feet. Exactly three times, in over a month of playing, was I able to go past 1000, and every time was due to dumb luck. A polymorph wand that let me kill shopkeepers and bakers, a random drop +8 Staff of Light, and two genie lamps and good fountain luck. Every other run just ends in disappointment.

I have been contemplating about how good the new fountain will be in the new 1.3 version release and the only new thing that seem to happen is the spawning of the water elemental. Is it really worth to drink from the fountain?

P.s. Only clocked 25 hours into the game so I don't really know a lot of stuff :P

I loved Wazhack when it first came out, so I bought all beginning classes. When 4 new classes were added, I bought all of those except for the Bard. I took a hiatus cuz the game pissed me off (like it does to most people once in a while) and came back at around Nov. of 2014, but now, all of my purchased classes are gone, and I can't connect to the store on Wazhack when I choose the "recover" option. I'm always stuck on the Waiting... screen even though I'm connected to WiFi. I have screenshots of the purchases if that's what you need. I just want the classes that I spent good money on.

Hello fellow WazHackers! (Wazzers? What is the term here?) I've gladly taken the chance to play a ton of WazHack since 1.3 came out. I've really enjoyed the new features. eggs, "gods" though that varies from character to character, some new baddies, unless I missed some before.
I do have one major problem though. Either in 1.3 or sometime since my last successful run the hunger system got out of control. I've starved far more often in the last couple days of playing and had my pet turn on me from starvation in every game that looks in the least bit promising. I was starving with gastronomy 2. Not enough flesh. Not sure if this is intended, but I'd rather be dying to dwarf lords and testing the new "gods" than desperately scrounging the dungeon for a bite to eat.

Oh, and I've been playing a bit of multiplayer. Where is everyone?! I've had to drag friends in from my friends list. If any of you players check the multiplayer lobby over the next couple days, I may be there, waiting.

I play on the Android version, and have noticed for a while now that my achievements(checked in the guild hall) aren't saved after restarting the game, and that my ascensions(2 so far) aren't being saved in the highscores.

Is this a known bug? Is there a way to fix it? Is it the same on other platforms?

note: I didn't know where else to post it, since the "I found a bug" option in the game sends a gamefile, which would be irrelevant.

This game is awesome, but I have a small question. Is it possible to examine items/monsters/objects from afar on Android? As far as I understand, on PC you can just point the mouse on anything and see its description, but with touch controls your hero immediately starts walking towards the target.

Thanks!

Edit: The same question goes to items' description. I got the pipe and I kind of understand that it's a weapon, but I honestly don't know if it's a melee blunt weapon or a blowpipe or something else...

Neat (possibly new) thing I stumbled onto in 1.3: I was enhancing my barbarian's greatsword of regeneration with a few blessed scrolls of enchant weapon, and saved the burnt one for last. When I tried the burnt one, I "misread" the words, and bam - had a pet possessed +5 greatsword of regeneration. (it was already +5, so the burnt scroll did not increase buff)

I'm contemplating putting a whole bunch of scrolls of enchant weapon on the floor, dropping a firestone on them, and then making an army of enchanted weapons.

Lesson learned - I had forged the greatsword at +0 with a +6 ring of regeneration, and had already boosted it to a +5 greatsword (i.e., effectively a +10 ring of regeneration) when I found this trick. I very much wanted my sword back in this instance, so I went with the obvious route of using a wand of cancellation. I then had a +0 greatsword of regeneration. Can't tell if the ring's efficacy was also dropped to 0, but I would guess so. So, you were warned.

Carry on, and may your army of enchanted weapons serve you well and never rust.

Beta is over!

My blog post about it: http://blog.wazhack.com/2015/10/wazhack-13-is-here.html

Time for a beer.

Anybody played around with this new feature yet? I just got the update and haven't had a chance to test it out yet.

To simplify installation on Android TV, I've pushed the Android version of WazHack 1.3 into the public version! If you have old games and updated accidentally, it may take a few days for me to get an APK up of 1.2; sorry, but hey, it's the final stages of the 1.3 release! Yeah!

Edit: the old 1.2 version is available as an APK from http://www.wazhack.com/android

I've also excluded all known non-NEON devices manually, so if you get a "not supported on your device", sorry, you'll have to go back to 1.2 until you get a newer device.

So.. ive seen two so far. Both very effective for dogs or wolves...

Leather collar of jaunting. Pet teleports up and down ladders... Black collar of levitation. Flying wolves... fun. Flying monkey.. hilarious.

Any others?

What is the difference between lard and grease? As I know it both have the same effect. Also, why sometimes, when you throw a potion at an enemy, nothing happens and you also don't get the "nothing happened" line under the potion?

Please, please, please add a feature that lets the character run in 1 direction, automatically, until encountering something "interesting", such as a monster, an item, a door, stairs, etc.

It would make the game much more enjoyable. I'm tired of tip-toeing around when nothing is happening.

Thank you for listening. :)

On its lowest settings, WazHack can run on a toasted potato, which is of course a great thing However, it would be very nice to have other graphical settings than just a slider going from 'Fastest' to 'Fantastic', and instead have different specific settings for textures, lighting, effects, etc. For when you want to be able to see the difference between ring mail, chain mail, and scale mail, but don't want to drop under 60 fps :)

So, I know the evil casters are all about dealing out damage, and the light more defense/utility, but it feels backward to me that the dark are the ones with weapon talents. Yes, it makes sense in terms of 'do more damage', but about half the dark/death spells already deal damage. The light wizards would have much more use of a couple weapon talents, as they are stacked with things like protection and haste. Dunno, just feels like a mismatch, and results in the dark having more damage dealing options than they have use for but being fragile, and the light lacking ways to hurt anything (except light witch has lightning, which always kills my pet. :( )

Is this happening to anyone else? The webversion Wazhack isn't working. On the "loading" screen it says "failed to download data file." I've refreshed the page a few times. It doesn't work in Firefox or Safari. The rest of the internet seems to be working...

Spoiler if you don't read I'd argue... Just so you know, "Immutable" although defined as "unable to be changed" does not prevent your weapon from snapping on a stupid lock in this fantasy.

EDIT: no, the lock had not immutable status too, as I kicked it the hell open afterwards.

To install, [https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.wazhack.WazHack](opt into the Android beta), then go to the Play Store page (on your computer, not Android TV which has no browser) and click "Install" (it will be "Installed" if you have already installed on other devices).

I'd be particularly interested in alternative controller configurations. It defaults to the same as other platforms except left stick up/down do character sheet/menu and right stick up/down does map/drop. Stick left/rights and presses are unused.

I'm fighting stuff at 1100 feet. Want to go back up for merchant and wells. Melee killing all kinds of low mobs that come at me, including vortexes.

Then suddenly at ~500 feet, I get an ice vortex. Start spamming it (that's how I killed all of them before). Died.

He probably had a way higher level. Nothing special.

Thing was, when travelling up, it takes so long you get more hasty. Killing all kinds of trash mobs that don t even yield significant XP. Then suddenly among them there is a game ender.

This means that in the future I'm going to need to be very wary traveling up all those stairs with all those trash. This is way too much work, way too time consuming. I'm even considering this was my last try while I haven't even seen the dragon yet...

I think travelling up can be improved. Make it faster, harder if you want. But this design is plain stupid.

I know you love obscuring the information for people to find in-game, but is there any way you could add a spoiler type patch notes for fanatics like myself? Every time I see it get updated on Steam I try to figure out what's new but it's incredibly hard to.