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[pisskop]

LOL @ my companion

[Robsoie]

So a hamlet i was visiting was being harrassed by bandits from a bandit camp
There were 3 goblins that i annihilated very fast before leaving them a chance to run away

None really cared about me reporting this "it was inevitable" that i saved their hamlet ...
oh well, at least they're not hating me, that's some kind of progress considering how broken it is

Anyways, i then went to the bandit camp belonging those goblins were coming from, looking after the bandit leader, once i arrived, i destroyed them all and destroyed their ringleader, Olngo whatever was the name.

Then i went to report my feat. And annoyingly, the bandit boss Olngo whatever wasn't listed at all in the insane +75 pages of possible reports about every birds and groundhogs that looked at me angry ...
So i decided to use the "brag" option, hoping by luck the game would pick Olngo whatever, and lucky me it did.
But i forgot how broken adventure mode interactions are :



despite all the bandits are dead , their camp is dead and their boss, Olngo whatever is dead ... and that i just told them.

[smjjames]

Yeah, I really wish that Toady One would fix the thing where it reports every animal that looks at you funny or runs from you as an attack, makes finding things you do want to report difficult to outright impossible. I don't know why he hasn't fixed that already as it seems like something that would get dealt with.

[Robsoie]

probably decided what to fix at random, because it is indeed very annoying.
But in the same time i don't think reporting is really working, half of the time what you report is completely ignored and the guy you reported to will still tell you how much that monster you killed is terrifying the city or something and so you should kill it !
So the fix may involve a lot more work than only filter events worthy of reporting, and remove things you already reported as with the supposed rumour spread there's no need to constantly report everything apparently.

Anyways, i ran into a labyrinth on a random world travel. Happy as i didn't found any minotaur so far to see how them being fixed will work
And


and so the inevitable conclusion as the thing didn't even tried to fight


Well, the less i can say is that minotaurs aren't fixed, they still run away from you cowardly.
I guess it will indeed take months to fix adventure mode or at least get it in a state near to how working it was in 34.11 (that was buggy, but at least much more enjoyable in term of how things reacted and at least worked semi-believably)

[pisskop]

Platyus kicked me in the hand and I fell unconscious on the opposite bank.  Currently taking a looooong nap unconscious while my swordsman companion plays nintendo with some buck rabbits.


here we go:
         [SYN_INJECTED]
         [CE_PAIN:SEV:100:PROB:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:LOCALIZED:VASCULAR_ONLY:START:2:PEAK:100:END:1500]
         [CE_SWELLING:SEV:25:PROB:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:LOCALIZED:VASCULAR_ONLY:START:50:PEAK:500:END:1500]

[smjjames]

Actually, if you're alone, they'll definetly fight you, might be variant on personality though. Although when I went in with a companion, the minotaur kept running away.

Toady One seems to be putting off the conversation system bugfixes as he hasn't done any on that. Aside from the crashes early on.

Also, the rumors you spread don't seem to spread from hamlet to hamlet, town to town, they just stay in the local site, so you have to repeatedly do it for each site. Or am I just not waiting long enough for the rumors to spread outside the site?

[Robsoie]

Difficult to imagine all those brutal mythological monsters being basic cowards like anyone else on a generated world, with worldgen telling you about their "rampage" and their big amount of kills and opponents running away from them you really imagine a completely different behaviour instead of powerful monsters running away from your party.
If it's intended behaviour, it breaks so much of the atmosphere.

No idea about how fast/far rumors will go, they do not even spread to the guy i'm directly talking and delivering reports, so i can't even imagine if it would spread anywhere else ... when it will actually work course.

[smjjames]

I can tell that they do work because when you tell a bunch of stuff about slaying things, they'll respond like they're starstruck. What I do is go to a market (if I'm in a town) yell a bunch of rumors and they'll spread from there.

I've left an area for months as an adventurer and it didn't look like rumors spread by me actually spread beyond the site. NPC rumors seem to spread from site to site just fine since rumors of armies on the march will spread FAR from the site of origin.

They can also somehow know that I killed something or someone despite me never telling anybody or leaving any witnesses alive.

[Cerapter]

They can also somehow know that I killed something or someone despite me never telling anybody or leaving any witnesses alive.

You have a fanbase, duh.

[Rumrusher]

oh you also get fanfare from murdered victims aswell.
if someone gets up and killed they will remember who killed them and want a hit out for them. this leads to the only time I seen someone thank the heavens that I murder a bandit group.

Also need to keep an eye on the levels of combat and ally: because only companions with Ally: will side with you in a fight, and those with out it are staying out of it.

in adventuring news, lost the baby, dad got mugged. still pissed off that no one knows how to rob people passively in adventure mode.

learn about dodging and blocking makes up for being chumps and had a reminder that once you place a chokehold in their lock in to die, you can't just wait for the person to recover to tighten the knot again.
other than that I hope I unlock being a hearthsperson soon.

[smjjames]

oh you also get fanfare from murdered victims aswell.
if someone gets up and killed they will remember who killed them and want a hit out for them. this leads to the only time I seen someone thank the heavens that I murder a bandit group.

Uh, how? Besides being in a reanimating biome.....

[Robsoie]

Or maybe being necromancer.

I decided to look for a Vault, not wanting to wander randomly and count on luck, i looked through legendsviewer and found one that was actually quite close to my current location, it's right next to a human hamlet, i wonder how none ever noticed it in the town, that would be great to have rumors about such structures when there are so close to a civilian site.

Anyways, before going in, i read a bit about what legendsviewer have to say about it

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lozu the Crypt of Phantoms was a demon born in -208 and died in 10 (Struck) by the dragon Brandedwealth the Luxurious Silver, in The rampage of Brandedwealth the Luxurious Silver in Bogwraith.

then looked up that demon to see where he is, in case i manage to get my hand on the slab and so his true name.

Lozu the Crypt of Phantoms was a demon born in -208 and died in 10 (Struck) by the dragon Brandedwealth the Luxurious Silver, in The rampage of Brandedwealth the Luxurious Silver in Bogwraith.

So basically there's an army of divine guardians protecting the secret true name of a demon for so many years despite it's now useless because that demon has already been killed long time ago

Oh well, at least i hope to get my hand on good loot

[Robsoie]

I sneaked in the Vault just to give a look at the kind of enemies inside

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

the Vault :


The "lesser" kind of this vault guardians :


"lesser" as in they don't have 360 degree vision and aren't difficult to fight


Then i found the "thougher" version of the guardians, thougher as in i remember what one of them did to a good character of mine in previous version, you really don't want to fight unless you really have great armor, weapon and very high skills (as unlike bandits or goblins, they're not unbelievably passive or friendly and will rush to you as soon as they can)
looked frightening :


While my skills may be good (legendary fighter and great at both my iron weapons), playing a dwarf my armor is sub-par, as despite the situation should improved according to the changelog, you still don't find small creature armor items most of the time, only found very few on the whole world parts i explored.

Even if he didn't looked that impressive in the description

a chinchilla..
The fact it was fully armored and wielding great axe, all with divine metal, i figured out it was time to sprint away

[Robsoie]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

a bit bored with how many bugs have broken my attempt at roleplay my character, i decided to give a go to battle the thoughest variant of the Vaults guardians

The fight was going to start, that powerful opponent was rushing at her, but Erib Lancepartners decided to try to give him a chance ... to yield


Well, let's say it didn't worked , and the bloodthirsty Messenger of Bora was not really going at it in a friendly manner , while she was already shocked by seeing her guts spilling out of a ugly wound, in a horrible hack of that divine axe, Erib saw with horror her lower left leg sailing away and fell down hard on the slade floor

The battle seemed finished, as Erib despite her pain was trying to still hit the guardian with her iron axe only to see the Messenger of Bora deftly parrying every single attempts and the powerful axelord was decided to finish the fight


A bit desesperate Erib decided to try to take down the divine great axe and managed to catch it with both her arms, but it proved unfortunately futile, all the "take down" was only resulting her "adjusting her arms on the great axe" probably the difference in strength and in wrestling skill was made obvious.

The Messenger of Bora was unimpressed and was still busy destroying Erib that out of options was now trying to kick the guardian of the vault.
And after a very nasty strike with his divine shield , the Messenger of Bora made Erib right hand to litterally explode, the insane pain, the blood everywhere.
Erib Lancepartners on her few last breaths became enraged.



And against all odd, Erib mighty berserking kick ... annihilated the overwhelming Messenger of Bora .

Then watching the terrible entity utterly destroyed falling apart and the divine weapons and armor falling on the ground, she went to her Armok dwarven Valhalla, having bled to death in glorious battle.

Remember Erib Lancepartners "the Hazy Buck-luxury of Weather", and fear whoever will go and find the items left lying around

[Robsoie]

about the rumors propagation, found a nice example with my previous character that killed a minotaur , finally the fact is acknowledged, when i started to play another character.

Too bad the system is still so badly broken :