DifficultyDelta Hardcore
I have played ivan many times recently to test my new items, and found something that should be checked by devs... ok. let's start from UT lvl2 i played just a while ago on clean instal. i had some water from fountain in UT1 and got polymorphed into giant dark frog. i descended into UT2 and got nuked by Ischaldirh. http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/6743/ichqp4.gif thats really no fun -.- some time ago i was playing with overpowered character, +10 to everything, dragon hide armor of great health, b. & g. of strength, mithrill flaming sword +10 and mithrill shield +10. i trained my skills to something like 12 and: - when i entered gloomy cave, game spawned bunnies who when attacking broke my shield with first hit, and put my torso near-death point in second. and they are 4hp monsters. - after entering IVAN level, there were swarms of orc generals, who in few turns killed and ate iwan corpse. Delta script really needs to be checked. maybe every monster should have a limit to its abilities, so we could avoid such nasty bunnies and puppies biting through mithril/adamantine shields. i dunno if delta counts items materials and enchantments, surerly it is affected by player stats. one might think, that having such items & stats i had, would make me a messenger of death, but insted i had to drink healing potions almost every turn. in fact it is way easier to find a big mine, enter GC with just basic equipment and a wands of mirroring/cloning/teleportation, set up mine, mirror it as many times as possible and teleport them away. Elpuri minions got killed instantly, and if ur lucky that stinking toad will be blasted too. we all play games to pump up our characters ang get these big shiny artifacts, but right now it wont do - delta generates too powerfull monsters.
I have played ivan many times recently to test my new items, and found something that should be checked by devs... ok. let's start from UT lvl2 i played just a while ago on clean instal. i had some water from fountain in UT1 and got polymorphed into giant dark frog. i descended into UT2 and got nuked by Ischaldirh. http://img427.imageshack.us/img427/6743/ichqp4.gif thats really no fun -.- some time ago i was playing with overpowered character, +10 to everything, dragon hide armor of great health, b. & g. of strength, mithrill flaming sword +10 and mithrill shield +10. i trained my skills to something like 12 and: - when i entered gloomy cave, game spawned bunnies who when attacking broke my shield with first hit, and put my torso near-death point in second. and they are 4hp monsters. - after entering IVAN level, there were swarms of orc generals, who in few turns killed and ate iwan corpse. Delta script really needs to be checked. maybe every monster should have a limit to its abilities, so we could avoid such nasty bunnies and puppies biting through mithril/adamantine shields. i dunno if delta counts items materials and enchantments, surerly it is affected by player stats. one might think, that having such items & stats i had, would make me a messenger of death, but insted i had to drink healing potions almost every turn. in fact it is way easier to find a big mine, enter GC with just basic equipment and a wands of mirroring/cloning/teleportation, set up mine, mirror it as many times as possible and teleport them away. Elpuri minions got killed instantly, and if ur lucky that stinking toad will be blasted too. we all play games to pump up our characters ang get these big shiny artifacts, but right now it wont do - delta generates too powerfull monsters.