claws attack messaging.


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Post Monday, 12th May 2014, 14:16

claws attack messaging.

apparently now if your hit wasn't impressive enough for the game messages talk about how you "scratch the foo" as if you were some sort of cat instead of "claw the foo" which is how trolls do it.
Please fix.

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Post Monday, 12th May 2014, 14:51

Re: claws attack messaging.

Can't tell if this is serious or not, but in the code

  Code:
            if (you.damage_type() == DVORP_CLAWING)
            {
                if (damage_done < HIT_WEAK)
                    attack_verb = "scratch";
                else if (damage_done < HIT_MED)
                    attack_verb = "claw";
                else if (damage_done < HIT_STRONG)
                    attack_verb = "mangle";
                else
                    attack_verb = "eviscerate";
            }


There is no special casing for Trolls, maybe Trolls are just boss enough that they never get the "scratch" verb?
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Post Monday, 12th May 2014, 15:08

Re: claws attack messaging.

  Code:
            if (you.damage_type() == DVORP_TROLL)
            {
                if (damage_done < HIT_WEAK)
                    attack_verb = "claw";
                else if (damage_done < HIT_MED)
                    attack_verb = "rip";
                else if (damage_done < HIT_STRONG)
                    attack_verb = "shred";
                else
                    attack_verb = "mutilate";
            }
take it easy
  Code:
!lg * won !DD-- min=turns -log
<Sequell> 20749. Bloax, XL24 VSTm, T:13320: http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/morgue/Bloax/morgue-Bloax-20140907-000920.txt

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Post Monday, 12th May 2014, 15:56

Re: claws attack messaging.

Until recently I'd never seen a troll, gh, ds or anything with claws that wasn't a cat use the verb "scratch" when attacking.
bet it's Grunt's doing.
GRUNT

e: GRUNT it was your ranged patch was it not
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Post Monday, 12th May 2014, 16:15

Re: claws attack messaging.

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Post Monday, 12th May 2014, 16:24

Re: claws attack messaging.

Wow so claws really have been scratching since forever and I had not noticed.
I'll get you yet GRUNT

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