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[Chromasphere]

I'm looking forward to the "living world" aspect.  I can't wait to be able to take an adventurer out and try to survive ala "unreal world" by hunting and fishing.  Make a cabin, raise livestock, make an Inn close to a nearby road, earn some coin, listen to rumors of goings on from afar, defend my property, employ guards, watch as an army passes along the road to some distant battlefield...   Uh, yes... these are what my dreams are made of.  And DF is getting closer and closer.   Yay!

Oh, and get married, have children and play as one of them when I die, old and satisfied... errrr sorry, forgot this was DF....   when I die chopped, mutilated, digested and crapped out onto my front lawn.

[monk12]

I'm looking forward to the "living world" aspect.  I can't wait to be able to take an adventurer out and try to survive ala "unreal world" by hunting and fishing.  Make a cabin, raise livestock, make an Inn close to a nearby road, earn some coin, listen to rumors of goings on from afar, defend my property, employ guards, watch as an army passes along the road to some distant battlefield...   Uh, yes... these are what my dreams are made of.  And DF is getting closer and closer.   Yay!

Oh, and get married, have children and play as one of them when I die, old and satisfied... errrr sorry, forgot this was DF....   when I die chopped, mutilated, digested and crapped out onto my front lawn.

Then you can avenge your own death! Not that I don't try to do that already, but it lacks a certain something when it's just a series of random adventurers instead of flesh and blood somebody-who-would-care.

[Neonivek]

if you want to complain about lucky shots archers/crossbowmen are probably a better destination for your aggression

No... Anyone who plays this game knows that the very first thing you do is take down the ranged archers and crossbowmen BECAUSE you know they can easily luck out and kill you.

If there isn't enough time then you break their foot, then hand.

Boogeymen there is no method except cheaping them out, which ONLY works because combat is so simple.

Also Boogeymen are not a placeholder.

Honestly I didn't mind Boogeymen until I got a map with a lot of rivers (Movement obstructive rivers became more common for me) and when I fought Megabeasts and had my followers EASILY take it out.

What I don't like is that, unlike the night creatures, they don't seem to have a reason to exist or an origin of sorts, they sort of just poof into existence to kick your ass for seemingly no reason other then you being alone somewhere far away from civilization.

They are sort of a living manifestation of the fear we experience while alone in the dark. That which frieghtens children and drives men insane.

It is setting dressing. They make sense and heck you could even interpret them as you simply being insane. Afterall, NO ONE in world gen ever was killed by Boogeymen, no one has seen a boogeyman, so how do they know?

[Owlbread]

I wish they'd do more than just bite and punch you to death though. It's not particularly scary if you get killed by being punched to death for the 9th time.

[Neonivek]

I wish they'd do more than just bite and punch you to death though. It's not particularly scary if you get killed by being punched to death for the 9th time.

They can gore you.

Honestly I think one move they should do is if three grab you... you should be dragged into the shadows and die.

[Rockphed]

I wish they'd do more than just bite and punch you to death though. It's not particularly scary if you get killed by being punched to death for the 9th time.

They can gore you.

Honestly I think one move they should do is if three grab you... you should be dragged into the shadows and die.

They should drag you into the shadows and turn you into a boogeyman.  If you keep the same size you had before, suddenly everyone will fear the night!

[jdf318]

Personally, I like to think of bogeyman as the souls of all my past adventurers and their followers pissed off at me for letting them die. There certainty is enough of them for that to make sense.

[EmperorNuthulu]

I wish they'd do more than just bite and punch you to death though. It's not particularly scary if you get killed by being punched to death for the 9th time.

They can gore you.

Honestly I think one move they should do is if three grab you... you should be dragged into the shadows and die.

They should drag you into the shadows and turn you into a boogeyman.  If you keep the same size you had before, suddenly everyone will fear the night!

 That would be pretty cool, especially with the new stealth/non lethal combat stuff. Become some sort of half night creature batman.

[DG]

Also Boogeymen are not a placeholder.

Maybe not , but I doubt their implementation is close to finished. I think they're still in the experimental phase.

Also, for those who don't know, setting your fighting preference to charging makes them easier to fight because they're comparatively small. Of course, you're still likely to die from a lucky shot, especially if you get surrounded.

[Neonivek]

and heaven pray for you if you are not using a Boogeyman specific weapon. (another good reason to turn them off)

[Putnam]

Bogeyman specific weapon?

[Spish]

Are you planning on fixing the issue where werebeasts infect way too many people, causing massive slowdown in worldgen? I imagine it'd be just as much of a problem in post-worldgen historymaking, so I'd think it would be something to prioritize.

[Neonivek]

Bogeyman specific weapon?

Blades (and I think peircing works too but no where close to as well)

But if you are using blunt... well good luck (I've killed a LOT of boogeymen groups with blunt... but even I know it takes several shots that a sword can do in one)

Though that is partially because Blunt doesn't work like a blunt weapon.

[Knight Otu]

Are you planning on fixing the issue where werebeasts infect way too many people, causing massive slowdown in worldgen? I imagine it'd be just as much of a problem in post-worldgen historymaking, so I'd think it would be something to prioritize.

He's done at least some work in that regard already.

  (*) Stopped werebeasts from gumming up world gen

[Scoops Novel]

I'm for creatures roaming an area and attacking you, or if bogeymen made more sense, had goals, lives, reasons etc, but as it stands they're just irritating. You should be able to live as a loner, walking into famously bad inns, gathering information and having the odd mexican standoff, sleeping with one eye open and a loaded crossbow, without magically appearing jackasses mobbing you every bloody night.