sirxdaemon

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This is somewhat recent but I want to mention this for other players like myself who wasn't aware. You can surprise attack using a 90 degrees wall bend and a reach weapon. Specifically, leading a mob around the bend and attacking once you see it again. You do need to hug the walls on the last two tiles of the bend and then you're free to keep hugging or move diagonally. Obviously, this isn't meant for square rooms and similar right angled walls but ones where you can escape line of sight to make the surprise attack.

I knew you could do a lunge attack, with the duelist, with blind spots; like if you can't see a mob that's behind some tall grass, a stone pillar, or you're in a garden, but I just realised you could do the same through doors. This will help with managing the sewers, crabs in particular. I assume door lunges should benefit as a surprise attack as well.

Just saw a post on the voting history that Voyager has as a feature and I think it would be neat feature to adopt. Even for users like myself that makes use of user tagging already, I think it would still be useful and complimentary.

This may also provide a bit of a framework for different requested feature, a history of your upvoted and down voted posts. I didn't use it much on Sync for Reddit but it was situationally useful.

Maybe hermit crabs could be spawned intentionally? Say, a sewer crab has a 10%(or maybe 25) chance of fleeing when at 50% HP or lower. When the crab finds its way next to a barrel, it takes a turn before turning into a full health hermit crab.

This change would let the player decide whether to permit the transformation, provided they have the means to take down the fleeing crab, and gain a risk-reward scenario. With the abundance of barrels, if you're taking on a crab next to some, the fight could escalate quickly.

Each spawn rate in this way probably needs to reduce the flee rate by half to limit farming.

I'm curious what people think of the new obstacles like barrels, cages, etc; that block ranged attacks.

I had a run with the hunter before the adjustment that reduced the spawn rate of barrels and whatnot and even then I didn't really mind the reduced range freedom.

I would surmise that the new barriers may be a net negative to ranged classes. Particularly with multiple challenges; kiting obstacles reduces resources and may result in bringing another mob to the mix, as opposed to simply pelting from afar. But there are also instances where the obstacles are a boon.

One positive that the average player may not realize is the reduced time in finding secret rooms, since those rooms can't be behind all of the new barriers.

I'm thinking the obstacles may also ever so slightly reduce the rate you're encountering mobs since the obstacles will reduce their traversal time between rooms.

Wondering if there's any plans for adding a translate feature. I use Fedilab for Pixelfed and stuff and it has a nifty translate button. Sure, it's not that hard with text copy and I have a translation app installed for a reason. But I'm lazy and tend to ignore stuff in other languages until I found out about the in-app feature. I'm not sure if many Lemmy apps have in-app translation so it could be a stand out feature. And Fedilab being open source may help with implementing the feature here.

The recent text bump seems to affect list view and I'm not sure if it's necessary; as it is for card view. I think the point of list view is being able to quickly view information that while is condensed, remains readable. Because of the size bump, I bumped the text scaling down a notch to 0.875, which makes the feed font size look as it was, but also reduces comment text size. It's still readable to me but is smaller than I would prefer and am used to.

There's a bunch of things that need to be taken into consideration in regards to how the UI is changed with different user-selectable font sizes, so I can understand if this is not implemented anytime soon. Or maybe just adjust it for list view and call it a day?

EDIT: Or am I crazy and it's the same size as it was for list view? I'm not sure.

As a secondary button, tapping on it does nothing. And other methods, including viewing a post's picture and just viewing a post. This is on v264. I think I first noticed this a few versions back.

I'll post this minor one as well. If you have 4 secondary buttons set, sometimes a sticky post will have its overflow menu button clipped on the right and goes off-screen.

Links aren't opening when tapped on if you have either card view set, in v254.

Example post.

For affected users, you may want to temporarily switch to a list view until a fix is implemented.

Initially reported by i_am_not_a_robot.

I'm curious how stickied posts in MultiCommunities are handled in other apps. I don't believe Connect is the only app that has this feature. Are they still posted at the top and you potentially have to scroll through a lot if you have a lot of communities added?

Currently, Connect doesn't put them at the top but rather chronologically, by your sort method.

I think it should remain at the top but if, say, the total number of stickied posts in a MultiCommunity exceeds 3, it's collapsed into a single option to open up a new page with all stickied posts.

I think it was working fine previously but I just noticed in v252 that when you try to block an instance, it blocks the instance of the poster rather than the community the post was made.

The post overflow menu includes separate options to view the user and community for the post. Perhaps this could be removed since the option to do so are available outside of the menu and I imagine few people are using it. But I could be wrong, if people think it's useful, please chime in.

Also, if the share button is selected as a secondary button, the option should be removed from the post overflow; the save button does this.