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Eagle_eye

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Re: The New Combat System
« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2010, 09:40:28 pm »
well, from experience I can say that with four shields (mod) I never got hit once over the course of an adventure that lasted weeks irl...
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Shrugging Khan

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« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2010, 10:39:53 pm »
I just tried it on a group of human bandits, and it worked very neatly. Blocked every single bolt that I didn't dodge, and bashed two crossbowmen's guts out  :D

PS: I'm a novice MOU, so I'm quite giddy about how good this will be later on.
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Chilton

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Re: The New Combat System
« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2010, 10:59:40 pm »
There you go - Now remember to butcher the corpses when your done. The day isnt complete until some corpses have been butchered
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Traece

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« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2010, 11:25:04 pm »
Sneaking up on people, grabbing them with your hand in wrestling mode, and then gouging their eyes out makes them basically worthless.

I went through a bunch of adventurers before I finally decided to do a ninja/wrestler. This may be the most fun I've had in a long time. You do pretty much anything to your foes if you sneak up on them. Hell, you can even lock and break their joints.
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Chilton

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Re: The New Combat System
« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2010, 11:28:39 pm »
Quote from: Traece on November 12, 2010, 11:25:04 pm
Sneaking up on people, grabbing them with your hand in wrestling mode, and then gouging their eyes out makes them basically worthless.

I went through a bunch of adventurers before I finally decided to do a ninja/wrestler. This may be the most fun I've had in a long time. You do pretty much anything to your foes if you sneak up on them. Hell, you can even lock and break their joints.
Thats been the way for a little while, but never as well made as it is now, so it still stands...

Tear out their eyes, rip out their teeth, break all their bones and eat their throats.
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furrot

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Re: The New Combat System
« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2010, 11:30:03 pm »
I found the new attack menu very helpful and intuitive, which is amazing considering this is DF. ;) Looking forward to seeing the wrestling menu getting the same treatment. I only have two complaints:

-Can't switch between wrestling and attacking menus after selecting a target.
-Embedded objects don't show up in the attack menu. I threw a spear at an enemy and it got stuck in their upper body. My first instinct was to run up and kick the spear the rest of the way through. Unfortunately that wasn't an option.

This system + the new maps have made adventure mode really fun. I can't wait to find a Minotaur.
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Chilton

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Re: The New Combat System
« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2010, 11:36:13 pm »
I never even thought to do anything with embedded objects - I tend to just rip them out...
And switching to wrestling after going to the strike menu would make sense, and vice versa.

But it isnt much of a complaint, more a minor hinderance
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Aarik

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« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2010, 02:37:49 am »
Hmm...

How do you breath fire as a dragon?

I've been sitting here for like ten minutes trying to figure this out.
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« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2010, 03:06:20 am »
Hm... Thats interesting. f, or maybe t? Fire like you would an arrow, only... Fire?

But you are a dragon. Strip their flesh with your bare fangs, you need no weapons nor capabilities.
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Aarik

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« Reply #24 on: November 13, 2010, 03:16:23 am »
I'm fighting a bronze colossus, I modded those to be batshit strong.

Racial average of 4500 in Strength and Toughness.

I also gave them the [CAN_LEARN] tag and its a Legendary Fighter, Wrestler, Striker, Kicker and Dodger, among other non legendary skills.

If I get close he's gonna bend me over backwards and shove me up my own ass.

But I modded Dragons to (once again) be able to fly, so I'm trying to snipe his ass from 5 z layers up.

So far all I'm succeeding in doing is sitting here looking retarded.

EIDT: Also, is their a way to make fire breath and fireballs use the Archer skill?
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Re: The New Combat System
« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2010, 03:17:42 am »
Well, swoop down and rip his head to pieces with your bare teeth! Use your new capabilities!
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Aarik

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« Reply #26 on: November 13, 2010, 03:24:24 am »
I bit his head.

About five turns later, and I'm on the ground with at least two of my legs broken, my right wing torn off, and being slowly beaten to death as I try to crawl away with pretty much everything at least brown.

Well, that didn't work.
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Chilton

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Re: The New Combat System
« Reply #27 on: November 13, 2010, 03:37:21 am »
Well, now Armok has your blood :p
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« Reply #28 on: November 13, 2010, 03:48:43 am »
Hey guys, I noticed something about the aimed strikes menu. Have you noticed that a blue '!' sometimes appears at the end of a line ussually containing a particularly difficult to preform strike? Well I noticed that that symbol means there is an attack type (Kick, Stab, Etc.) that is sufficiently more accurate then the rest for that body part at the moment. This can allow you to easily score hits on otherwise untouchable body parts, as if they were unconcious. For instance, if the head itself could be marked as an 'imposible' strike and the eye is marked as 'can only graze', however, you have an a blue '!' for the eye and if the resulting powered up attack is blunt, you could easily take that and effectively smash their skull in.

Does anyone need clarification?
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Re: The New Combat System
« Reply #29 on: November 13, 2010, 04:53:14 am »
Quote from: iceball3 on November 13, 2010, 03:48:43 am
Hey guys, I noticed something about the aimed strikes menu. [...]
Look what I found. :)
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