Comments on: So what’s been happening in 0.8 development?

By: jpeg

jpeg — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:41:09 +0000

@XuaXua: Wall clinging applies to monster spiders and also to the player in Spider Form (spell).

By: XuaXua

XuaXua — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:26:41 +0000

“Spiders can cling to walls which allows them to effectively bypass water and other obstacles.”

Is this ability just restricted to Spiders, or can this be a minor spell (requiring one to walk along walls), or special item (Spider Gloves)?

By: Flamingkeys

Flamingkeys — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:22:47 +0000

Hooray! My reported bug is listed as critical :D

By: casmith789

casmith789 — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:27:04 +0000

Armour was buffed on CDO recently. Why not try it? Seems viable again.

By: PigVomit

PigVomit — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:08:28 +0000

Hey, we missed you! More plOOg plz. :D

and Eino, I am so sad about armour, my meathead characters are so very sad for months. ;_;

By: evktalo

evktalo — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:37:40 +0000

That’s the most important thing on the TODO list, I hope we are able to address it soon. Right now nobody is working on it, unfortunately.

Balancing heavy armour back to being a viable option would make an awesome (and difficult) non-dev contribution. :) The “defense” wiki page has some good guidelines and discussion about it.

–Eino

By: bet

bet — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:10:14 +0000

I hope they’re modifying the AC and just slipped by your list :(

By: jpeg

jpeg — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:41:30 +0000

Oh, I’m sure I missed some changes. After all, I only took into account commits happening after the release of 0.7, and only belatedly realized that of course branching happened much earlier. Gah!

If anyone feels up to writing a more detailed analysis on Ashenzari, the Felids, or any other big changes, I’d love to read them. :)

By: evktalo

evktalo — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 23:01:13 +0000

This is a nice surprise! Big thanks for the big list!

My memory is hazy (even though I added them myself), but I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of new spider monsters in 0.8. 0.7 had a Spider’s Nest portal vault, but it only used old monsters.

–Eino

By: Amonchakad

Amonchakad — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:26:38 +0000

Thanks a lot for the list! I try to always read the commit log too, but I was still totally unaware of a few things.
Also, if we could get more playtesting posts, that would be awesome. I loved them :)

By: Po-goliam Izverg

Po-goliam Izverg — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:50:37 +0000

Can’t wait!

By: Izverg

Izverg — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:30:34 +0000

Sweet! Thanks for all the good work… Looking forward to the next installment! :)