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Fawnek

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zombies my dudes...
« on: June 17, 2017, 02:56:39 am »
its a problem we all face bros, i just got attacked by some and they have a bunch of bowmen/crossbowmen.... and that's new as far as im concerned...

only problem is that some dont have eyes...
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anyone else got this?
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PatrikLundell

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Re: zombies my dudes...
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2017, 04:05:04 am »
Nothing unusual as far as I can see, unless the outpost liaison arrived as part of the invasion force. Undead don't use eyes, but have some kind of proximity "sense living" sense.
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Lozzymandias

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« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2017, 05:47:15 am »
Yep, all seems in order. Blindness is no great barrier to the undead, just as Patrik says.
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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2017, 10:54:01 am »
After the last nerf, they are manageable. Full squad of armed dwarfs can take on that horde with minimal losses it you don't charge all at once.
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Re: zombies my dudes...
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2017, 11:02:34 am »
Some of the human undead might be equipped in bronze armor.
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Fawnek

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Re: zombies my dudes...
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2017, 08:15:39 pm »
I know they got nerfed, but i thought (and hoped) that they still used eyes.
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PatrikLundell

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Re: zombies my dudes...
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2017, 04:35:08 am »
Why? Blind cavern creatures do not suffer from not having eyes (and cannot be blinded!). Undead effectiveness is not affected by the usage of sense living rather than vision (and I think sense living is not hindered by obstacles). Furthermore, undead haven't used vision for as far as I've played, and certainly isn't something introduced as part of the recent undead nerfing. Finally, rotten eyes ought to provide rotten vision even if their biological function somehow was retained when the biological processes are not, and reanimated arms have really poor eye sight.
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kingsableye

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« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2017, 03:49:25 pm »
Can the undead shoot the bows and crossbows? That seems rather... odd.
Patrik is right, undead have used their sense living since their inception, they are magically reanimated of course so magic eyesight makes sense. There are other beasts that see in a 360 cone without eyes (bronze colossus) in the game as well.
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PatrikLundell

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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2017, 04:42:51 pm »
Undead can definitely fire missile weapons. If they discover animals during their siege the ground tends to get peppered with arrows and bolt (and you'll get cancellation spam because your civ alert prevents you from picking up the animal corpses).
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