Ziggurat Zagger
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Joined: Thursday, 10th February 2011, 18:30
Tiles Lantern of Shadows is annoying
The downside to Lantern of Shadows is the reduced sight area, which is fine, but the way it is implemented in Tiles is actually a terrible thing. A poor INTERFACE SCREW.
You see, when you turn it on, the entire screen goes dark. I can sort of make things out, and I know my character can, but it makes it tough to actually PLAY the game. I understand the intent is to reduce the range of sight, but in addition to that, the regular view dims. Having experienced it, I am of the opinion that this is a BAD thing, completely unnecessary flavoring that makes the game less fun to play. It makes you take more time to examine the screen and see what's going on, which is not the intent of the item.
There is enough with the reduced stealth (which makes no sense since you are creating darkness in a dark place - stealth should be ENHANCED) and the reduced basic LOS that this screw to the playing user is not needed.
Is this how it works in the console version?
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