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Lord Shonus

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This is truly something I've never seen before!
« on: April 02, 2010, 11:12:46 pm »

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Re: This is truly something I've never seen before!
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2010, 11:14:55 pm »

Currently megabeasts are pretty much invulnerable to everything except a metric shit-ton of magma.
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Re: This is truly something I've never seen before!
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2010, 11:19:35 pm »

Strange, as a hydra went down without landing a hit on an adventurer of mine. Guess I'm more competent ad adventure mode than the AI is.
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Re: This is truly something I've never seen before!
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2010, 11:22:20 pm »

Strange, as a hydra went down without landing a hit on an adventurer of mine. Guess I'm more competent ad adventure mode than the AI is.
Two hydras were put in arena mode and sat there fighting for about 20 minutes without getting anywhere. Hydras are kind of broken anyway.
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Re: This is truly something I've never seen before!
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2010, 12:12:32 am »

At least, they're nigh invulnerable in worldgen. And nigh invulnerable period in the BC's case.
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Re: This is truly something I've never seen before!
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2010, 12:16:26 am »

The current combat difficulties result in weird things, like bronze colossi heads never being broken off no matter how many times you fracture them, hydras being unable to damage each other, dragons being unable to damage guys in bronze armor, etc. Things are definitely amiss.
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Re: This is truly something I've never seen before!
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2010, 12:35:10 am »

The current combat difficulties result in weird things, like bronze colossi heads never being broken off no matter how many times you fracture them, hydras being unable to damage each other, dragons being unable to damage guys in bronze armor, etc. Things are definitely amiss.
Well bronze is historically and still used today as an alloy that's exceptionally resistant to heat.  However, convection should still play a part and give horrible burns if there's enough heat.
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Re: This is truly something I've never seen before!
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2010, 02:16:59 am »

When I heard about the dragon thing, I think it was in reference to physical attacks. But yes, firebreath should still hurt people. It's not like you're wearing a solid case of armor, after all.
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