Nethack 3.4.0

Dark_Nova writes "Nethack 3.4.0 - the latest version of the greatest game ever created - has just been released. See the release notes for details about what's new, or go here to download it."

Comments

Wow, I remember way back when

[Cade144]

Wow, I remember way back to my youth, I'd loose all sorts of productive time in college.

Now I get to loose productive time as an adult. At least I'll get paid this time.

Re:Wow, I remember way back when

[Cade144]

You are correct, I should have spent more time learning how to use spell checkers. Spelling has always been a problem for me, I use double letters when I shouldn't and forget double letters when I should. As far as spelling is concerned, I'm a looser.

Yay, new way to waste time at work

[Dragon218]

Hopefully, this edition will have the Amulet of Yendor in it.

Re:Yay, new way to waste time at work

[teamhasnoi]

The best thing is you can tell your boss your're doing a defrag.

"The bugs on the floor speed up"

"See, it's working!"

The nerd litmus test.

[fluxrad]

Just divide the number of people who download the latest version of this game by the number of valid IP's on the internet and you can figure out exactly what percentage of people on the planet earth won't be contributing to the world's "population" problem ;-)

Re:The nerd litmus test.

[squaretorus]

Or if you say:
You hear a monster behind the boulder

and they reply
Perhaps that's why you cannot move it - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH BWAAA HAHAHAHAHAHA BWA BWA BWAAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A - WATCH OUTT You might DISPLACE MY CAT BWAAA AHAAAA HAAAA HAAAAAA

Before collapsing helplessly into tolk of Shrubberies and 'very naughty boy's

Re:The nerd litmus test.

[Cheshyre]

Sorry, but my husband & I are both avid nethackers. At one point, I checked the logfile at the old college system, and together we were responsible for at least half of the games played.

Besides, Nethack has its romantic undertones... such as the time I was frozen and encountered my husband's ghost. "(spouse's name) touches you. (spouse's name) touches you." ;}

[resubmitted, because I accidentally used brackets around 'spouse's name' which was somehow interpreted as html tags]

oh shit

[isli]

i'm being chased by the @ and the %. Well, at least its not the / and the .

Slashdot to English Translator

[ReluctantBadger]

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Don't forget to mod me down!

Re:Nethack vs Diablo

[sinator]

Nethack and Rogue were placed here by Wumpus to tempt the faithless.

Great..

[PepsiProgrammer]

Looks like my AP calculus grade will be driven even further into the ground next grading period than it was this time. Thank god there is no Palm port yet, id *never* get any work done. Thanks Nethack

Regcodes?

[F.O.Dobbs]

Where can I get a reg code for this? Anybody got a good warez site for this one?

Oh wait, wrong game.

Re:INT, not DEX

[Anarchofascist]

I think the other advantage of Nethack is that things can happen that are completely unscripted. I'll never forget the time I stole from the shopkeeper only to have the Keystone Kops come after me... and run into a pack of orcs while I had on my Ring of Conflict:

Kop throws a pie. Orc is hit by a cream pie. Orc wipes face. Orc throws dagger. Kop is destroyed!

God

[Wind_Walker]

When are the people over at Nethack going to realize that this feature bloat is completely destroying the product? Have you looked at the latest release.txt file? A new Win32 GUI, control-P for a full screen message...

And at a size of 1.1 MB?!?!?! How am I supposed to download that on my dialup connection?

Screenshots??

[Anonymous Coward]

Where are the screen shots??

Dammit! If Nethack is supposedly the 'greatest game ever', why are the authors ashamed to put screenshots on their website! Everybody knows that if this game doesn't utilize the latest in 3D Technology, it's doomed to failure.

Considering how long Nethack's [apparently] been around, I would hope by now they support all the high-res modes, like 1600x1200x32; along with neat effects like a decent particle rendering system, gouraud shading, real-time shadows, reflective surfaces, and all the latest in 3D graphics technology.

Re:See slashem for example!!!

[gowen]

It is still turn-based... so what?

Are you kidding, thats kind of terrible design decision that made Chess such a short lived fad.

Re:I've never played this game..

[Junta]

Well, for one, the graphics of netHack have always been *so* much more advanced than Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I mean, just take one glance at the detail of a nethack shot and you'll fall in love. Avoid those things like Falcon's Eye, or X11 enhanced interfaces, the original ASCII is truly beautiful..

Plus, there are cute animals in nethack, can't beat that.

Re:Falcon's Eye

[Junta]

What, graphics with netHack? Blashpemer! We get our ASCII and we like it that way. May an @ devour you for even suggesting anything but ASCII :)

Re:What is NetHack?

[Strog]

That tells a lot about the game but I still can't find *any* screenshots for it.

Re:What is NetHack?

[Kanon]

Here's a picture of the main character

@

And his dog looks like this

d

The orcs are quite good

o

Does that help?

Re:What's the big deal about Nethack?

[kometes]

It teaches you vi!

"See, boss, I'm learning editor commands."

Re:What is NetHack?

[Black Parrot]

> Here's a picture of the main character @ And his dog looks like this d The orcs are quite good o

I've only ever seen the beginner's version, where the dungeon is a single 3x3 level and the only two characters are X and O.

Re:What's the big deal about Nethack?

[Anonymous Coward]

That is why I started to play nethack.
I wanted to learn the vi movement keys.

Then my nethack skills outpaced my vi skills,
and I keep getting frustrated by trying to move
diaganally in vi.

My favorite .sig of all time

[eaolson]

Used by Dave Meringer, then of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory:

Now I am become NetHack, the destroyer of graduate students.

Re:My favourite NetHack message

[grytpype]

My favorite dirty NetHack message:

"The nymph is covered with your goo!"

To get this you have to polymorph yourself in to an ochre jelly and attack a nymph.

Re:Am I the only one who doesn't see the appeal?

[NonSequor]

That reminds me of my favorite way to get rid of trolls as a monk. For those who don't know, trolls come back from the dead, over and over and over. Most of the time you keep them from reviving by eating their corpses. But monks aren't supposed to eat meat. The solution is to chuck them into a pool of water. When they revive they drown. The only problem is that pools of water aren't that common and this doesn't work on water trolls. I haven't tried it on Slashdot trolls, but I imagine it should work.