Comments on: Fourth Release Candidate of 0.6

By: doy

doy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:02:10 +0000

Whitewolf: item 81 is referring to the spell “Poison Ammunition”.

By: Whitewolf

Whitewolf — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:26:37 +0000

In that changes files you have:

80 * Except for Nessos, launchers of flame can’t be combined with poisoned ammo.
81 * Removed Poison Ammunition in favour of Poison Weapon and temporary brands.
84 * Poisoned ammunition is more effective.

These seem to be contradictory statements.
Is there poison ammunition now or not?

By: hackum

hackum — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:55:31 +0000

Cheers! I found this also very helpful: http://crawl.chaosforge.org/index.php?title=AC_nerf

By: evktalo

evktalo — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:28:30 +0000

Shields have not been boosted as such, the numbering was just made to be more comparable with AC and EV. There’s a new reflection brand for shields, though.

–Eino

By: doy

doy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:36:40 +0000

Revamped AC/EV and armour changes is discussed here https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=dcss:brainstorm:misc:ac

By: hackum

hackum — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:32:45 +0000

Thanks. Where can we read more about the revamped AC/EV system and the removal of Heavy/Light armour distinction?

By: doy

doy — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:44:16 +0000

Changelog is in the docs/ directory of the download, and you can read it here: http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl-ref.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt;h=6267e58e176508c3b4162f4ab6d747542463f485;hb=HEAD

By: hackum

hackum — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:46:33 +0000

There are lots of changes, I haven’t been able to discover all of them.

I liked the new scrolls, the new area is great (The Swamps were so frustrating always), the tabs in the interface are great, some other minor changes here and there make the game really shine. Some new randarts were introduced as well I think.

Some of the armors might have been changed. I think the dragon armor got nerfed for example.

In any case, I would love to see a list with all changes from the previous version. Does this list exist?

By: Ret

Ret — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:43:15 +0000

I can confirm shields are overpowered.

By: David Gardner

David Gardner — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:15:47 +0000

What are some of new features and interface you like most? I see new gods, and some new items, and the blinging out of missiles — I like all of those. I’m playing the tiles version which I’ve never played (I prefer console but there’s no Mac console build) — so I can’t tell what interface improvements have been made — I’m curious.

Final query: I just equipped a +0 buckler and it gives me 11 SH — bucklers were 3 SH before — does this mean shields are now superpowered?

Thanks for all the great work, team, and thanks in advance for any replies. –DG

By: hackum

hackum — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:52:22 +0000

I love the new features and the interface. Just played through rc3 and loved it.

By: Stoat

Stoat — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:41:16 +0000

Wow, these are coming thick and fast! Any chance of another tiles OSX version?