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Makuus

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Seriously?
« on: July 20, 2008, 12:59:48 pm »
I have just encountered... a SKELETAL giant.

It did not end well for me. Is this feature new or has it been in for ages? Toady has a mean mind to think that up.
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2008, 01:53:35 pm »
That's nothing, I had a world with about 8 or 9 skeletal dragons and 4-5 zombie dragons.

Ow.
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2008, 04:13:39 pm »
I think it's a new feature.
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2008, 04:49:17 pm »
I think I had three zombie black dragons harrass a town at once, in history. Surprisingly, only one of them survived...
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2008, 11:25:18 pm »
Zombie semimegabeasts and megabeasts are not that bad in my experience of having fought a zombie dragon and zombie giant; being a zombie makes them slow and easy to damage.
Never seen a skeletal one, so I couldn't say about those.
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2008, 12:01:19 am »
Zombies and skeletons aren't new.  They were removed (creation-wise) from 38 for certain reasons I can't remember but have been there for several versions.
However, IIRC this is the first time undead megabeasts could happen.
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2008, 04:21:50 pm »
Quote from: jaybud4 on July 21, 2008, 12:01:19 am
Zombies and skeletons aren't new.  They were removed (creation-wise) from 38 for certain reasons I can't remember but have been there for several versions.
However, IIRC this is the first time undead megabeasts could happen.
I have been meaning to ask this for a while now, but what does IIRC mean?
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2008, 04:23:10 pm »
As I understood, Skeleton and Zombie versions of creatures are modifications to original creatures. Anything with flesh can be a zombie and anything with bones can be a skeleton. Though not every creature has had a zombie and skeleton version in every version of the game, it was intended for this to be possible and should not be a surprise when a miasma breathing dracolich arrives to eat your artifacts.


...and IIRC means If I Recall Correctly.
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2008, 03:12:40 pm »
Quote from: Boomer on July 21, 2008, 04:23:10 pm
...and IIRC means If I Recall Correctly.
That is indeed what it means.

...IIRC, at any rate  ;D
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Re: Seriously?
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2008, 04:54:31 pm »
Why so serious? XD
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