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[ShadowHammer]

I've heard many people talking about how whips are completely overpowered and cut through anything etc. but I have never seen a whip cut through any metal armor at all, or sever any limbs.

Also, I've heard so much about deadly dust just tossing dwarves around and breaking ALL the bones, but this has also never happened to me. For example, eight of my soldiers just fought an FB with deadly dust in a narrow tunnel, and they were being pushed around by the dust, but the worst injury any of them received was bruising (from the dust, anyway: one died when the monster stepped on his head).

So, I'm wondering
-Am I just reading forum posts wrong, and no one has ever complained about OP whips/dust?
-Was this an old glitch that has been fixed?
-Or am I just lucky?

[Remuthra]

Might have been fixed, since I believe the combat system was revamped recently. Especially since Carp were fixed.

[Garath]

Falling has been redone recently, well, last update somewhere around adding minecarts iirc, so the dust blowing you around probably isn't as damaging, nor is falling 10+ levels always fatal anymore.

Whips don't actually cut that often. They do however break or chip bone through pretty much any armor. On the other hand, many mods make minor balance changes such as editing grazer values and making whips less lethal.

[kingubu]

Dust attack is random like everything on an FB.  You got lucky.
My dwarfs in the last dust attack took 5 steps and fell over dead like they just met Uma Thurman in a yellow and black jumpsuit.