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[Brotato]

I just read on the General Discussion board that FBs have been nerfed. I haven't played against any yet so I wouldn't know. Did Toady really do that?!

[Girlinhat]

Define "nerfed" because I've observed them buffed.  They now properly web and everything.

Though now I'm curious, please tell me what changed to nerf them.

[Blizzlord]

I agree with Girlinhat, show the bay watchers why you speculate this.

[Psieye]

The interpretation I make of this is

Spoiler: "Just in case there are newbies who haven't experienced HFS" (click to show/hide)

FBs are no longer the greatest threat ever short of HFS (which are basically mass-produced FBs) because now we have husks and stuff. Therefore they got nerfed from their "biggest middle finger" status.

A gross misusage of the word 'nerf' if that is the actual reason that statement was made.

[Blizzlord]

The interpretation I make of this is

Spoiler: "Just in case there are newbies who haven't experienced HFS" (click to show/hide)

FBs are no longer the greatest threat ever short of HFS (which are basically mass-produced FBs) because now we have husks and stuff. Therefore they got nerfed from their "biggest middle finger" status.

A gross misusage of the word 'nerf' if that is the actual reason that statement was made.

-.-

[Girlinhat]

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/i_3a7a95_436520.jpg

[Psieye]

The interpretation I make of this is

Spoiler: "Just in case there are newbies who haven't experienced HFS" (click to show/hide)

FBs are no longer the greatest threat ever short of HFS (which are basically mass-produced FBs) because now we have husks and stuff. Therefore they got nerfed from their "biggest middle finger" status.

A gross misusage of the word 'nerf' if that is the actual reason that statement was made.

-.-

Yes exactly.

Btw girlinhat, your link isn't working.

[Hyndis]

FB's are very random.

Sometimes you get an FB that can be slain by a kitten, othertimes you get FB's made out of solid stone that constantly spew facemelting gas.

An FB isn't very hard to kill if you prepare a proper trap for them, and this same trap also works well against the underworld invaders. I'd be honestly surprised if anything could survive my FB death machine.

Its kind of boring actually.

[Yaotzin]

Traps of all sorts are extremely overpowered. Hopefully this will change as the military functions at optimum levels.

Or Toady can just make us get attacked by a horde of dragons + some titans + a dozen FBs from below. Hehe.

[Psieye]

Or Toady can just make us get attacked by a horde of dragons + some titans + a dozen FBs from below. Hehe.

Nah, Toady doesn't need to do that - we can make that happen ourselves. Toady's time is better spent introducing new stuff (read: modding tools).

[tommy521]

Btw girlinhat, your link isn't working.

Funnyjunk has that problem a lot, you have to just link to the page. It seems to have something to do with the images being local, for as long as the person has seen it before they can access it, otherwise it doesn't work, (possibly?) who knows.

[Girlinhat]

It's cool, I found a more relevant picture anyways:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a274/CLUTCH_ONE/Fail_forecast.jpg

[Hyndis]

Simple weapon traps won't do. You need to be more creative with spike traps, siege engines, crossbow positions, and magma purification devices along with a failsafe crushing mechanism.

The key is to use a piece of artifact furniture as bait. Building destroyers will stick to it, trying forever yet failing to destroy it, since artifacts cannot be harmed. This lets you position them wherever you want.

So, position them with siege engines pointing at them, with an overlook for crossbows to fire at them. Steel spikes surrounding the bait linked to a lever to impale them. Magma to cleanse the entire chamber of any toxic contaminants, and if you get a creature that is entirely immune to everything, pull the failsafe lever and drop the ceiling on it. Crushing will kill anything.

Then put the whole thing into an airlock between two drawbridges.

Leave the outer door open but the inner door closed, and you can kill the FB's every once in a while when they start to pile up too much.

[Yaotzin]

Or Toady can just make us get attacked by a horde of dragons + some titans + a dozen FBs from below. Hehe.

Nah, Toady doesn't need to do that - we can make that happen ourselves. Toady's time is better spent introducing new stuff (read: modding tools).

True true. And bug fixing..ahem.

[Girlinhat]

Players can already mod in cave dragons to breed fire and come on the map in clusters of 20-30 if they wanted.  I think Toady's time is better spent on new tools and features, and let modders hash out how to utilize those new tags.