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Wooty

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Useless ambushes
« on: December 20, 2007, 08:57:00 pm »
I was playing adventuerer mode lately with high hopes for random encounters... But they suck.

I get a random encounter every ~6 spaces, have to wait while the map loads, and find myself standing in the middle of nowhere. No animals. I walk around, look around, look up and down...nothing. Wait...nothing. I press T, it says YOU MUST SURVIVE THE AMBUSH OF DEATH! I move three spaces away, I can travel again. So far I've only found anything on one ambush - a single cougar two screens away I killed with a coin.

Is this a bug or are ambushes just horribly underpowered?

Edit: You can also spawn in an empty murky pool. Unless the invisible animals can jump through Z-levels to get you this should be fixed too.

Another Edit: I finally, after eight or nine tries, got a pack of wolves. On the other side of a river. Target practice anyone?
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Re: Useless ambushes
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2007, 09:04:00 pm »
Go against a pack of Blendecs with a Novice wrestler and see how easy they are.
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Re: Useless ambushes
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2007, 09:10:00 pm »
The real problem is actually getting a pack of Blendecs to ambush you...

I can defeat any "ambush" I'm currently getting with a stick and a dead rat. Larger sewer rat for best effect.

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Re: Useless ambushes
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2007, 09:14:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Wooty:
<STRONG> Larger sewer rat for best effect.</STRONG>

More like Granite Rat.

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Re: Useless ambushes
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2007, 09:18:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Torak:
<STRONG>

More like Granite Rat.</STRONG>

It's hard to get a stick through a granite rat.

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Re: Useless ambushes
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2007, 03:09:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Wooty:
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It's hard to get a stick through a granite rat.</STRONG>

Tie it to the stick by it's tail. Blammo, rat-flail.

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« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2007, 03:42:00 pm »
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