Lair Larrikin
Posts: 15
Joined: Tuesday, 13th March 2012, 01:08
Sunday, 16th September 2012, 09:41
Removing the shortcut through coc_mu
For reference, find coc_mu in http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=bl ... es;hb=HEAD
Roughly speaking, this map is shaped like the number 3 with the player starting at one end of the 3, the rune and Antaeus are at the other end. A canny crawler will notice there are two single width passages cutting the loops of the 3, which let you skip most of the map (they are denoted by semicolons in the des file). This way you have a couple of natural chokepoints and some cover to deal with the few ice fiends that you run into. This makes this particular Cocytus ending much easier than the other two. I suggest the shortcut passages be removed.
Roughly speaking, this map is shaped like the number 3 with the player starting at one end of the 3, the rune and Antaeus are at the other end. A canny crawler will notice there are two single width passages cutting the loops of the 3, which let you skip most of the map (they are denoted by semicolons in the des file). This way you have a couple of natural chokepoints and some cover to deal with the few ice fiends that you run into. This makes this particular Cocytus ending much easier than the other two. I suggest the shortcut passages be removed.