PSA: New Tartarus enemy, the Doom Hound

[tedric]

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/7 ... 123f2f4636

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Add Doom Hounds

New enemy for Tartarus. Use a smitey hex that causes more hounds
(avg ~4) to spawn nearby for the next 12-18 turns. An escalation
of the situation, vaguely like Sentinel's Mark.

[Sar]

Aw, Spirit Wolves are back!

[duvessa]

lol

[nago]

Fuck I wrote the kinda same post but tapatalk didn't sent it!

Well at least it's hell so I suppose it's okay to put all the shittiest and annoying things there, a player already knows it's going to be painfully bad and boring

[MainiacJoe]

So the spawned hounds are themselves Doom Hounds that can spawn more Doom Hounds? Are these summons that time out, or does "spawn" suggest they are permanent? If the latter, I'm curious what the tests done before the commit showed it takes to fill a level with Doom Hounds. This would be exponential growth, so there's a tipping point to where it gets out of control--does the player really, really have to screw up for this to happen, or can RNG himself make it happen? Now it isn't fatal necessarily, just always make sure you can get to an upstairs in Tartarus and be prepared to have a 14 rune game if a level gets too many hounds, but I bet that would be unfun. And I freely admit I'm saying this having never dared even contemplate doing extended, so ignore me if I'm just shooting my mouth off.

[Dharmy]

Yo dawg I heard you like summoned dogs so we summoned some dogs that summon some herds of dogs

[duvessa]

It's a status on the player so the growth is linear.

[MainiacJoe]

Well alrighty then. Actually sounds kinda fun, can we get them in Depths please?

[archaeo]

They are metal as fuck; I had to burn a half dozen scrolls and most of my cancellation pots to get away from them in D:15. And, as far as I can tell, new ones never go away...

[dynast]

They are metal as fuck; I had to burn a half dozen scrolls and most of my cancellation pots to get away from them in D:15. And, as far as I can tell, new ones never go away...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psAssknvO10

[tabstorm]

Why did spirit wolves get readded to the game except now maybe farm-able?

[archaeo]

To add to my previous point: I think maybe the code needs to be looked at, because for a Dis enemy, I sure had about twenty of these on my D:14. Is it possible that a shapeshifter in the form of a Doom Hound used Howl, and then the new spawns were just normal Doom Hounds?

[duvessa]

Why did spirit wolves get readded to the game except now maybe farm-able?

it's like that one person in your group of friends that nobody actually likes, but no matter how often you try to ditch him, change phone numbers, etc. he somehow always finds you again. spirit wolves, elemental wellsprings, item destruction, traps, etc. are that guy

[sweetrabies]

To be fair, Crawl needs that guy to balance out the unreliable stoner friend that is Chei.

[tedric]

Farming potential has been addressed:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/2 ... beeca4aba0

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Don't give XP for howl-called doom hounds

Infinite XP Considered Abusable, Say Killhole Experts

Also:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/2 ... d6f0138078

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Shift doom hound HD (not HP) up

To reduce unfortunate poly accidents. (If that remains a problem,
they can become demons.)

[Kolbur]

Fuck I wrote the kinda same post but tapatalk didn't sent it!

Well at least it's hell so I suppose it's okay to put all the shittiest and annoying things there, a player already knows it's going to be painfully bad and boring

Except they will follow you everywhere and soon you fill the entire dungeon with them on the orb run...

[Croases]

Not annoying enough, call them Hounds of Tindalos and spawn them on Zot traps/Tloc miscasts/abyss.

Also discourage luring and killhole tactics by having a 1/270 chance for each turn spent with a corner ("sharp angle") in LoS to give you the howl status.