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Baron Baconeer

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Pumping up the megabeast.
« on: January 03, 2011, 05:14:32 am »
I've been working on a small mod of mine, mostly adding plethora of new animals (and a walrus man civilization), but one of the megabeasts is quite frail at the moment.


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It seems to be especially vulnerable to crossbow headshots. Any suggestions?
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Quote from: veok on October 30, 2010, 06:45:18 pm
Yes, mother ****ing walruses stormed in through my well room, fatally gored my expedition leader, and danced off into the frosty tundra to sing happy walrus songs about oysters.

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Re: Pumping up the megabeast.
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2011, 09:57:23 am »
You could define a new tissue layer for the head's skin inside the creature definition?
eg.
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[TISSUE:HEAD_SKIN]
    [TISSUE_NAME:skin:skin]
    [TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:SKIN]
    [RELATIVE_THICKNESS:10] higher thickness to resist the bolts
    [VASCULAR:5]
    [PAIN_RECEPTORS:5]
    [HEALING_RATE:100]
    [CONNECTS]
    [TISSUE_SHAPE:LAYER]
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Baron Baconeer

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Re: Pumping up the megabeast.
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2011, 10:46:02 am »
That'll do. Thanks.
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Quote from: veok on October 30, 2010, 06:45:18 pm
Yes, mother ****ing walruses stormed in through my well room, fatally gored my expedition leader, and danced off into the frosty tundra to sing happy walrus songs about oysters.

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Re: Pumping up the megabeast.
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 11:59:08 am »
try makeing the claws bigger
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[RELSIZE:BY_CATEGORY:CLAW:300]up the PHYS_ATT_RANGE  range
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Agree, plus that's about the LAST thing *I* want to see from this kind of game - author spending valuable development time on useless graphics.

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Re: Pumping up the megabeast.
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2011, 12:36:55 pm »
nostun mentioned twice. No special attacks, skills, difficulty or equipment. He's basically a naked giant monkey, no wonder he die fast.
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Re: Pumping up the megabeast.
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2011, 12:51:10 pm »
Try some natural skills. Ten tonnes isn't earthshatteringly large either could up that. Also, your description says it has no facial features other than eyes, yet it possesses a mouth, a bite attack, roars are mentioned in the prefstring and it's associated with lies. Jealousy makes sense I guess if it envies our noses.
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Re: Pumping up the megabeast.
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2011, 01:17:07 pm »
With the facial features I ment that it's face looks entirerely like a black blob with eyes and not much of a mouth, but instead just a gaping hole. And I think it would serve bit better as a semi-megabeast though.

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Quote from: veok on October 30, 2010, 06:45:18 pm
Yes, mother ****ing walruses stormed in through my well room, fatally gored my expedition leader, and danced off into the frosty tundra to sing happy walrus songs about oysters.