🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 07 May 2001 02:40:20 GMT, st...@home.com (stoic) wrote:

>	Are you using the Strength spell?  Are you aiming your
>attacks?  Disabling an arm slows down an attacker big time.  A few
>shots to the leg keeps those pesky archers from running off.
>Headshots are triple damage (but have a -25% chance to hit, so up your
>melee skill and go for head shots.)

This is all good advice in the combats where you can do damage to your
opponent. But how about those missions that call for you to kill an
ogre and the best damage your weapons can do against their AC is 3 or
4 and they regenerate that away before you ever even see it? Or how
about that mission where you have to kill whip aga and lash aga who
have 360 hiptpoints and AC 26, with both attack and defense scores
substantially higher than the player is likeley to have at that point
in the game? Or how about generic veteran orcs, even, when your bone
long bow and obsidian axe will rarely do better than a 0 aganst their
armor?

I suspect they play balanced this game on Novice and expected that
most of their customers would play it like that. All of the tips you
listed work well at Novice setting but do absolutely nothing when you
can only roll for low damage. Getting a critical for 10 or 12 doesn't
help much when an enemy has 300+ health and is tagging YOU for 100+
damage at the same time. It's the obscene regeration rates that make
this game impossible to play on Normal. You can't even whittle an
enemy down over time. You really can't do ANYTHING except skip the
mission til later, if possible, or change the difficulty setting.

>	If you can't hack through someone's armor, either avoid them
>or try to backstab them.  

Look, 500% of 0 is still 0, I don't understand this comment. You
apparrently haven't tried this yourself. It's the same with criticals.
It doesn't take an expert to figure out that if all you see is
BACKSTAB 0 and CRITICAL 0 scrolling up the screen you better get the
hell out of dodge...


>The only problems I had with bouncing off ofenemy armor were the black boars, 
>and the veteran skeleton warriors or whatever.  Had to run from those puppies.

Sounds ,ike you haven't gotten verey far in the game. I didn't have
any problem with the boards but those veteran skeletons were among the
enemies that you( or I ) couldn't really fight with weapons available
to us. Especially since they had piercing resistance and the two
highest damage weapons we could have (Green Dragon Bone long bow and
Green Dragon Bone spear) both did piercing damage.

Luckily those Veteran skeletons could be avoided. You will come upon
enemies that have to be killed as part of the mission objectives that
are just as tough or tougher than that.

>	However, I will admit to saving before most every combat.
>Many times I had to keep reloading to kill a quest character with a
>backstab and a few headshots.  (Most notably traitor and the 3rd
>ogre.)

I'm guessing that you also lowered the game difficulty for both. The
"demon" especially was difficult even at the novice setting.

>	Overall I'm liking the game.  However, I dislike not being
>able to retreat.  Mobs hunt you down w/o any stamina worries of their
>own.  Since all quest destination/objects show up as great big
>blinking red blocks on the minimap, it feels like you're being lead by
>(mostly) intangible nosering. 

Well, you are. It's a completely linear strategy game - and not a very
good one - with a lot of RPG "elements" added in. It _should_ have
been a full blown RPG. It could have been a huge success as such. As
it is, the game it  most reminds me of is Mech Commander.

> And the magic system's offensive spells (not enough damage, but mobs rip you a new one.)

The magic system just blows, all the way through the game. It's the
worst ever. The game would have been better with no magic at all than
the way it's implemented in Evil Islands.