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Author Topic: Does Armless = Useless?  (Read 7324 times)

Vester

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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #30 on: September 03, 2009, 05:16:28 pm »

And I don't think humans and dwarves can latch on when they bite.

But they do (or humans at least)!  I've done this personally (don't remember why or how, I think one or both of my arms were broken and I had my combat preferences set to close combat) and while you've latched on, there is an option in the wrestling menu that says "Shake [body part] with mouth" that allows you to tear off chunks from your enemies.  About two battles later I discovered I still had harpy chunks in my mouth.  It was disgusting and awesome!

Edit:  Let me see if I can reproduce this and post a screenshot.  Basically your arms have to be disabled or otherwise occupied, and you have to set attack preferences to close combat, and I think that does it.

I can think of a way to disable your arms without having to get them chopped off.

Fight two enemies at a time, and grab one with both arms. Then try attacking the other one.
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #31 on: September 04, 2009, 08:18:34 am »

I had a adventurer a while back that got his arms destroyed and went on with life goreing wolves and such with his mouth, until he got knocked down and got his head bite off and spat out...
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #32 on: September 04, 2009, 05:50:48 pm »

You could just grab a target with both hands, instead of fighting two.
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #33 on: September 04, 2009, 06:07:52 pm »

Couldn't you also throw (spit?) the chunks at enemies in a sortof chunky breath attack?
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #34 on: September 05, 2009, 02:38:51 am »

You could just grab a target with both hands, instead of fighting two.

It be a cooler mental image if you had two wolves in a headlock and were biting a third to death.
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #35 on: September 06, 2009, 08:02:42 pm »

You could just grab a target with both hands, instead of fighting two.

It be a cooler mental image if you had two wolves in a headlock and were biting a third to death.
God I wish I could draw, that would make an awesome image for the Drawing thread...
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #36 on: September 07, 2009, 01:13:41 pm »

i would say that grabbing a wolf with both arms then ripping it to pieces with your mouth is still pretty epic
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #37 on: September 07, 2009, 01:14:47 pm »

Grabbing two wolves in the face, and then latching onto a third one while it struggles!
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #38 on: September 16, 2009, 07:14:33 pm »

I'm curious. Is there any way to maintain empty hands? For example: A dwarf wants his hands completely free to strangle/gouge/cripple without the restriction of stuff in his/her hands.
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #39 on: September 16, 2009, 08:15:18 pm »

I had a adventurer a while back that got his arms destroyed and went on with life goreing wolves and such with his mouth, until he got knocked down and got his head bite off and spat out...

Holy crap, that's really ironic in such a beautiful way...
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #40 on: September 16, 2009, 11:19:00 pm »

I'm curious. Is there any way to maintain empty hands? For example: A dwarf wants his hands completely free to strangle/gouge/cripple without the restriction of stuff in his/her hands.
I dunno, I like strangling people with my slab of bear meat ration that I start with.
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #41 on: September 17, 2009, 12:41:30 pm »

Also I thought losing your arms doesn't prevent you from throwing things (or perhaps even picking things up)
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #42 on: September 17, 2009, 07:04:45 pm »

I'm curious. Is there any way to maintain empty hands? For example: A dwarf wants his hands completely free to strangle/gouge/cripple without the restriction of stuff in his/her hands.
I dunno, I like strangling people with my slab of bear meat ration that I start with.
Hm. Good point. I wonder if it would be possible to mod in a feature that would allow you to wield weapons with your mouth...
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #43 on: September 17, 2009, 07:13:36 pm »

1. Add [GRASP] and [ATTACKFLAG_WITH] to the mouth.
2. KILL THE WORLD.
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Re: Does Armless = Useless?
« Reply #44 on: September 20, 2009, 10:57:05 pm »

1. Add [GRASP] and [ATTACKFLAG_WITH] to the mouth.
2. KILL THE WORLD.
I think I'll try this but also remove arms and legs from dwarves and see how badass one can be as a result.
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