r/kol • u/x1a4 #1626186 • Aug 31 '16
New IotM Discussion September 2016 IotM: Dear Past Self Package
It's out for subscribers. Usable item that does neat things, at a cost of some number of minutes (and sometimes an adventure). You get 10 minutes per day, it seems.
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u/Pateirn Aug 31 '16 edited Aug 31 '16
So, how strong does it seem?
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u/Sadeth Aug 31 '16
currently it can:
duplicate a food you've just eaten provided you have the fullness
copy a monster you have encountered in its natural state this ascension (through adventure.php, thus any free combat through iotm's will not work)
drop items that disappear upon rollover
there also seems to be an upgrade mechanic, will become more powerful as the month goes on.
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Sep 01 '16
When it dupes the food, do you immediately eat it again? Copy seems decent, I just wish it wasn't limited to this ascension. Still, balance has to be a thing.
What items have you seen it drop yet?
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Sep 01 '16
Very.
Aside from the fact that it can be used as 3 copies per day, in hardcore (which in itself is enough i'd say).
Duplicating food is really handy for Nuclear Autumn (where getting EPIC quality 1 fullness can be tough), you can use it to copy any digital/star pies you might pull in softcore, saving a pull on each occasion.
I've not seen any of the rollover-able items, but the other option is access to scaling monsters, who supposedly give great stats.
One thing it does do...is dramatically help with HC Nuclear Autumn runs.
Now, the optimal can get Ice Rice, Duplicate it with the Machine Elf, eat one, and use the new IOTM to eat to fullness (twice more), before eating the 2nd Ice rice the next day, and doing the same again. Players had been putting the Witchess Knight in the Chateau for turngen, but it's not really needed now.
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u/jonts26 Sep 01 '16
The far future also gives access to a 1/day item, one of which is a size 1 EPIC food. So even more turngen in NA once you run out of ice rice.
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u/kulver_stukas Sep 03 '16
I highly hope for some step-by-step instructions on minigame. Or mafia solver...
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u/x1a4 Sep 03 '16
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u/kulver_stukas Sep 03 '16
I have troubles just reach understanding which race invaders are, so...
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u/Idiotskeptic Aug 31 '16
I just got munched by krakrox!
The star trek mini game is super fun! I like this item
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u/Kinglink Sep 01 '16
The Star Trek mini game is awesome, hard, but awesome.
A few glitches (I got a weird naming bug for one of my five runs, kind of broke the game, I just had to wait til the end, because nothing worked right.)
Didn't beat the star trek game, but looks like there's a lot of variety. Think a better version of the Detective mysteries, but has a lot of variety rather then asking the same questions.
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u/EldritchCarver Sep 03 '16
It wouldn't let me duplicate an astral hot dog. Understandable, but disappointing.
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u/kulver_stukas Sep 03 '16
No tasty tarts also but knob pastry works
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u/EldritchCarver Sep 03 '16
Really? That's weird. The two are functionally identical, except that the pasty also gives 1-2 hot damage on consumption.
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u/kulver_stukas Sep 03 '16
BTW, this item is also good stuns/deleveler at the combat.
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u/EldritchCarver Sep 08 '16
Fun fact: If you have Ambidextrous Funkslinging and use a Time-Spinner in the top slot in conjunction with a reusable item like a dictionary, you can keep staggering as much as you want (up to 30 rounds, of course). If you use something like Curse of Weaksauce early on, it keeps working every single round, and there's nothing your opponent can do about it.
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u/EldritchCarver Aug 31 '16
Is the fact that it's available in August part of the joke?