Comments on: Trunk updates, 17 October 2016

By: ToastedZergling

ToastedZergling — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:26:33 +0000

I will miss my +Reflect proc’ing on boulder beetles to make them roll away

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 15:34:20 +0000

Depends on the monster! Boulder beetles were funny, but they weren’t very effective; once you knew how they worked, they were almost always harmless, since it was so easy to sidestep their attack.

By: Fingolfin

Fingolfin — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:50:26 +0000

Hi, I’d really like to know the rationale behind all the monster mergings / removals. Diversity and monsters with interesting gimmicks (boulder beetles, I’m looking at you) make the dungeon way more immersive and add a lot of flavour to the game, don’t you think?

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:02:42 +0000

@nago: reasonable concern! they only drop along with corpses right now, but that’s not something players would necessarily notice. I’ll think about it!

By: nago

nago — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:52:51 +0000

@kuniqs: actually steam or mottled are very dragon armor among the best, I’m pretty sure a good chunk of players use them when no better robe|ring mail|artifact are around for light armour users.

@PleasingFungus: about the change of dragon scales auto dropping. I believe it may be misleading for new Gozag worshipper. I mean, now corpses and scales dropping seems to be two separate things; while playing a gozag game I understood only after a while that I wouldn’t get any scale like always. Could it be specified somewhere in the god panel description?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 21:17:17 +0000

I’m curious, what motivated the removal of Haste?

By: kuniqs

kuniqs — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 05:11:46 +0000

Finally someone realized nobody used the lesser dragon armour (steam, mottled) because nobody wanted to waste an enchant on ‘em!

By: Plutia

Plutia — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:19:08 +0000

ah wait, that wasn’t the issue, the issue is orc mages with blink. I see now.

By: Plutia

Plutia — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 03:18:23 +0000

Haha, I see, so a defect in that early monster vault leaving it open heck, at that point I’d be happy to just see orc mages but there’s orc warriors in there too, and orcs with branded weps, gg.

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:35:37 +0000

@Plutia: https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss/comments/54zzcg/this_is_the_first_thing_i_encountered_on_level_1/

(Apparently I lied – it was turn 50…)

By: Plutia

Plutia — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 01:30:31 +0000

Hrm, so about “Orc wizards should no longer kill the player on turn 20 of D:1.” are orc wizards nerfed, or just not in the regular non-oop spawn for d:1 anymore; or can’t be placed near spawn?

By: TheArcanist

TheArcanist — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:47:32 +0000

Finally bit the bullet and removed Haste, huh? Can’t say I didn’t see that one coming.

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:13:18 +0000

@wat: No, no, and no, respectively. :)

By: wat

wat — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:06:23 +0000

Lesser Beckoning:
Can you use this to drown enemies?

Is there a Beckoning or Greater Beckoning?

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:30:42 +0000

@kktkkr The change came originally from a request by a screenreader-using player, so there’s at least one!

By: kktkkr

kktkkr — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:15:34 +0000

“If anyone reading this uses a screenreader”

I’m going to be very impressed. And I can’t imagine how extreme a screenreader-only run would be.

By: Baconkid

Baconkid — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 17:34:41 +0000

“auto_butcher now functions only when autoexploring”

Yaaay.

“Monsters that could be butchered for their hides (trolls and most dragons) now, instead, have a chance of leaving behind the armour equivalents instead on death.”

Boooo.