Hey all,
First time, long time.
So I'm no adom noob...i've beaten it twice a while back, but i have yet to beat it in the graphic mode (not sure what its called exactly, ha. its version 60 though). I'm really excited to do so, BUT I'm having an issue crowning!
So i wanted to get some people's insight and see if there is another change i'm not aware of...
I play a gnomish monk
So a normal game starts with me making my first kill at the Outlaw town, then i head to Terinyo to get the Puppy quest, Keethrax and Roving Raiders quests. If i can, i quickly try and find the descending stairs on the first level of the Small Cave before i level up too much. then I head to the infinite dungeon to level up to 5 before heading out to kill Kranach. Once I do that, I usually start at the Druid dungeon, clearing the first 6 levels (making sure not to descend to level 7 so that i don't generate the black torc). Then I head to the Puppy cave and clear the whole thing, bringing the cute dog corpse back to the girl.
Now, If i found an altar in the druid dungeon or the puppy cave, I usually just start saccing every monster in sight...if I don't find one, I head to the CoC. In the CoC, I clear the first 7 levels, making sure not to descend to the 8th (again to not generate another artifact, the Si).
By this time, I'm anywhere from a level 8 all the way up to a level 15 (all without generating an artifact). With the last 5 characters, up to this point, I've found an altar, and I'm able to monster-sac all the way until I get "Berywn favors you" (lovely addition!) and then "Berywn favors you greatly" (as i understand it, a new version of "seems to be extremely close to you"). I have tried at this point to both pre-crown (by making my alignment either N+ or N-) and normal crown (N=) by simply praying, but I keep getting the "your prayers remain unheard" message and no Loot!!
Is there a new requirement that I'm missing?! I could have sworn this let me crown in the oldschool adom version...but I could be wrong. I know I'm not generating any mystery artifacts or anything like that bc they don't pop up on the list of generated artifacts after I die...
I did not purchase the Steam version of the game (could that be the issue?! I should probs do that either way...)
Any thoughts y'all had would be greatly appreciated! Thanks