Friday, 1st November 2013, 16:58 by Wahaha
Yeah I also don't see why people dislike it. "Oh no shallow water" "I might have to take a step back to not fight in shallow water" "Shallow water is so bad". The shallow water creates a unique set of positioning choices to make, not seen in other branches (less so after new Swamp, but the change to new Swamp was needed for other reasons). How do I position myself to stay on ground while fighting multiple enemies? How do I have to move so that the hydra or alligator don't catch me (or get less hits)? And it's not more tedious to explore than other branches unless you're playing Crawl 0.9 or something.
Suggestion for swamp worms: make them completely invisible while submerged (sinv doesn't work). They can move while submerged. They're permanently submerged until they attack the player. After they attack the player they can't submerge. They have non-annoying AI (so not like the one they have now): they DON'T retreat into deep water if they're damaged and the player moves away. Instead they always try to move towards the player.
The result is that they pop out of the water with a surprise attack, like trapdoor spiders (but can move around hidden before attacking). After surprise attacking they become non-annoying enemies. Autoexplore fixed, annoyance fixed, makes them interesting because they can suddenly appear next to the player at a bad time.
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