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Article #403914Re: Re Arcanum : Of useless techs and fizzling spells
From: aisa... Adam
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 15:49
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 15:49
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where are those beta test diaries? On Fri, 04 May 2001 12:51:18 GMT, sgri...@carolina.rr.com (Grifman) wrote: >On Fri, 04 May 2001 12:28:47 GMT, twi...@myhome.now (TwinIon) wrote: > >> >>Having played the demo three times with different character, is it me or are >>the tech schemes and magic spells underwhelming? Granted you can only have up >>to 2 levels of any spell or tech in this game but some do not make >>sense...take gun-smithy for example....you spent 1 precious CP so as to make >>one lousy pistol which you probably could buy or trade from a gunsmith anyway. >>While I can see techs like healing salve and spike trap of some use, those >>that allow you to make weapons or armor seemed rather useless .... and you >>can't make a profit from it anyway. > >(snip) > >As you noted this is a demo and you can't advance far. Of course any >discipline is going to be weak at the beginning. I suggest you read >the some beta test diaries on the web. As one noted, by the time he >got his gun skills up, he was blowing through enemies he struggled >with at the same level using a pure melee character. > >Grifman > >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews3 From: ai_sa...@email.fandm.edu (Adam) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg Subject: Re: Re Arcanum : Of useless techs and fizzling spells Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 15:49:20 GMT Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3af2cf6e.1411065@enews.newsguy.com> References: <9cqqlp$o73$0@pita.alt.net> <9csge1$pnn$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <9cu36q$kde$1@houston.jhuapl.edu> <9cu7gv$1d7$0@pita.alt.net> <3af2a569.433853@news-server> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-119.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit