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Title: What Annoys You?
Post by: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 02, 2012, 02:40:28 am: What sort of things do you encounter that are annoying/rage inducing/just plain dumb?

For me, trying to eat some food after spending days on end hunting something that can be butchered so now I need to eat about 6 pieces of whatever instead of just one, and being told that I am too full to eat, even though my status is "Hungry" is the most infuriating message this game has ever given me.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: caddybear on May 02, 2012, 02:57:17 am: So you never were so hungry that you can actually fill yourself with food and still not be sated? Yes, that is a thing.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 02, 2012, 03:02:25 am: Quote from: caddybear on May 02, 2012, 02:57:17 am
So you never were so hungry that you can actually fill yourself with food and still not be sated? Yes, that is a thing.

Only when stoned.

But how about this: Drinking "stagnant water" is fine when it's on the ground, but if you put it in a container, "No, that's disgusting!"
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Lucelle on May 02, 2012, 11:25:19 am: I always get pissed off when I walk down a set of stairs in the catacombs and am immediately one-shotted by a crossbowman.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Urist McDonalds on May 02, 2012, 12:00:40 pm: I get pissed off when I go on a quest to kill a black bear, I cut off it's leg, it runs away, it gets kicked by an emu, it opens the threatening window, but it still runs away.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Baradrim on May 02, 2012, 02:33:17 pm: In my old adventurer, i had to kill somebody in a dark fortress which did not exist at all.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: eltheon on May 02, 2012, 05:11:24 pm: fighting a savanna titan that as it died shot a heat wave or something at me and i melted i was SO pissed
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 05:59:29 am: Sewers. My God, sewers.

I am often sent on quests to find someone and kill them in a sewer, but the sewers are almost always empty (sometimes there's small hostile critters in them but not often) and several passages are unable to be navigated without drowning.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on May 03, 2012, 06:27:35 am: Bogey. Fucking. Men.
I HATE bogeymen.

Not being able to find sewer entrances is sorta annoying, too.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 09:35:25 am: Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 03, 2012, 06:27:35 am
Bogey. Fucking. Men.
I HATE bogeymen.

Not being able to find sewer entrances is sorta annoying, too.

The entrances are fairly easy to find, but I feel you on the Bogeymen. They are weak as shit, most of the time taking only a single blow to fell; the problem is landing that single blow. Usually, I advance world gen a world without Bogeymen, just because I like to travel alone.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: NRDL on May 03, 2012, 09:43:31 am: Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 03, 2012, 06:27:35 am
Bogey. Fucking. Men.
I HATE bogeymen.

Not being able to find sewer entrances is sorta annoying, too.

I feel your pain. These things were like wasps. Good thing Toady added a "remove bogeyman" sort of option in advanced world gen.

I...don't like rivers. The dark blue ones you have to swim across. I have died to alligators a few times, and also to drowning even though I have adequate swimmer skill.

And really, it's just tedious crossing the darn things.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Hamsmagoo on May 03, 2012, 10:19:06 am: Quote from: eltheon on May 02, 2012, 05:11:24 pm
fighting a savanna titan that as it died shot a heat wave or something at me and i melted i was SO pissed
That sounds like !!fun!! :P
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Tehsapper on May 03, 2012, 10:48:58 am: Quote from: NRDL on May 03, 2012, 09:43:31 am
I...don't like rivers. The dark blue ones you have to swim across. I have died to alligators a few times, and also to drowning even though I have adequate swimmer skill.

I hate rivers too. When I go outside a town to quest I always need to cross thousands of these small rivers without fast-travel and my companions always end up drowning, one by one.

I hope there will be an option that will allow to make rivers passable on travel screen.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 03, 2012, 10:51:12 am: I have come to loathe doors.

You can't see past them, even if it's just an opening without an actual door (like those in keeps, towers and houses), and walking through them, if there is a hostile (cross)bowman on the other side, is suicide most of the time.

About crossing rivers: If the river is a lighter shade of blue than normal, you can fast travel over them. My only gripe with them is that you have to alt+direction to enter them. You can't just walk into them normally, even if there's a ramp.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Chagen46 on May 03, 2012, 11:21:35 pm: FUCKING CROSSBOWMEN, MANG

Just got fucking cheapshotted by one. Man, that was pure unbridled bullshit.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: zombie urist on May 04, 2012, 12:33:53 am: Eat and drinking limits. Also interacting with wells should automatically lower and raise the bucket.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: DG on May 04, 2012, 01:42:35 am: Quote from: caddybear on May 02, 2012, 02:57:17 am
So you never were so hungry that you can actually fill yourself with food and still not be sated? Yes, that is a thing.

Are you sure? I thought hunger tied in with how full your stomach was. So even if you were malnourished you'd still not feel hungry as soon as you stuffed yourself with food. Of course, I've never been that hungry. Though I have been thirsty to the point of vomitting when I finally did get a drink. That was a long and painful process. So having the thirsty status stick around for a while once you go past an unsafe level while you puke up what you try to drink would be legit.

More on topic, not being able to fast travel over rivers nowadays aggravates me as well as things that have longer line of sight to my adventurer.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Axarr on May 04, 2012, 12:27:29 pm: Bandits. Whenever I get interrupted during fast travel, they slaughter me. Even If i have a kill list of 40 and a horde of zombies. :(
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Hanslanda on May 04, 2012, 01:20:22 pm: Bogeymen. Although, my current adventurer has managed to finally kill a group of them. When I killed the last one, I was so excited. If they didn't spontaneously vaporize after death, id still be carrying a bogeyman head around. Archers aren't so bad if you're being sneaky, and very lucky.

And I rather recently went to rehab, and due to certain habits, hadn't been eating much at all. When they served food the first three days, I invariably ate far far too much, because even though my stomach would be full, I was still hungry. So, I can relate to how Toady did the Hungry and Thirsty. We ARE on the internet though, we could probably look up scientific data on hunger and such like...
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Loud Whispers on May 04, 2012, 02:19:57 pm: Quote from: caddybear on May 02, 2012, 02:57:17 am
So you never were so hungry that you can actually fill yourself with food and still not be sated? Yes, that is a thing.

Three meals are not a cure to the effects of starvation.

HEYAH!
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Meistermoxx on May 06, 2012, 08:33:47 am: When the filthy human peasants get lucky and jam my skull with their kitchen knives, or something silly like my smashing my middle finger open on both hands.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: NRDL on May 06, 2012, 08:45:02 am: It's annoying how all marksmen and bowmen are elite snipers, now. It makes it impossible to attack bandit camps and eradicate them without throwing rocks at the snipers while in stealth mode. While it is kinda fun, I wanna try other play styles and their ridiculous accuracy is frustrating.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Loud Whispers on May 06, 2012, 09:13:44 am: Quote from: NRDL on May 06, 2012, 08:45:02 am
It's annoying how all marksmen and bowmen are elite snipers, now. It makes it impossible to attack bandit camps and eradicate them without throwing rocks at the snipers while in stealth mode. While it is kinda fun, I wanna try other play styles and their ridiculous accuracy is frustrating.

Because skilled archers aren't supposed to be able to hit adventurers at point blank range ::)
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Pawel1997PL on May 06, 2012, 10:14:54 am: Quote from: NRDL on May 06, 2012, 08:45:02 am
It's annoying how all marksmen and bowmen are elite snipers, now. It makes it impossible to attack bandit camps and eradicate them without throwing rocks at the snipers while in stealth mode. While it is kinda fun, I wanna try other play styles and their ridiculous accuracy is frustrating.
Huh, I just wrestle their weapons off, never had any real problems whit them.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Wwolin on May 06, 2012, 10:35:01 am: Immortal Powerhouse Disorder
Goblins live forever. If a goblin gets good enough to rack up a few kills, he gets stronger. And then he racks up more kills. And gets even stronger. Eventually, you have a 1050 year old goblin who has devoted every day of his life to killing, and has grown damn good at it. They generally have legendary in at least three combat skills, and have kill streaks longer than a dwarf's beard. And when you die against them as an adventurer, they just get stronger. And since npc armor is affected by skills and kills, these guys usually have steel.

Also, if people are annoyed by zombies not having weapons, I have two words: zombie sturgeons. Sturgeons are common, and can be killed by standing at a riverbank and throwing dirt at them. However, when you resurrect them, you have a landswimming monstrosity capable of tearing a troll in half. Animal zombies are near unbeatable.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Captain Crazy on May 06, 2012, 01:57:38 pm: Birds. those fucking assholes

You can't butcher the lot of them, hunting them is obnoxious with melee, and their omnipresence makes it impossible for me to ambush big game.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: bitesh on May 06, 2012, 04:38:56 pm: Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 03, 2012, 06:27:35 am
Bogey. Fucking. Men.
I HATE bogeymen.

I love bogeymen. They're my rite of passage. Once I can slice them in half without them even touching me, I know I made a worthy adventurer. In the beginning they can be a pain, obviously, but I just bring some companions along, and it's cool.

Which brings me to what does annoy me the most: those asshole companions chasing every fucking animal they ever see. They don't even kill them sometimes, they're just happy to maim them unconscious. Or better yet, I try to cross a 2/3 tile wide river, half of them start floundering in the water. They'd be fine if they just swam across, but no, there's a turtle or whatever down the river, so, they drown fighting that fuckin turtle. Any archers/crossbowmen waste all their ammo before we get anywhere near a quest target. I can imagine it "Animals? Living? How dare they?". Or maybe they just love them so much (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcACaW9vwg4).
Companions: what a bunch of assholes...
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Klitri on May 08, 2012, 10:20:10 pm: What annoys me?
Watching elfs and children being attacked and killed, killing the murderer then getting killed by his buddy.
This all happened in a fortress.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Uzu Bash on May 10, 2012, 10:39:16 am: "You have discovered a river."

You don't say? Biggest feature on the map, and just now detected it? The rivers don't bother me as much as this message
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: humblegar on May 12, 2012, 07:33:02 pm: Hatches and stairs in catabombs defended by respawning lashers and crossbowmen, such a gamble moving down.

That and being hungry/thirsty all the time because I'm "too full" to do something about it ;)
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: ClkWrkJester on May 13, 2012, 03:29:26 pm: "Hey, need something done?"
"Yes, there's a bandit."
"Hey, need something done?"
"Yes, there's a goblin."
"Hey, need something done?"
"Is that not trouble enough?"
"If it was, I wouldn't be ASKING NOW WOULD I?"

Honestly I like that this game, when I get fed up with an NPC, lets me lash out at him with violence.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: WarTurkey on May 13, 2012, 05:44:25 pm: It really annoys me when, in combat it says "the cow gores you in the third to with its horn" or "the chicken punches you in the finger" WTF also how do they rip my fat by shaking me and also why is the human child biting my foot and latching on?
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: MHpersonalDwarf on May 13, 2012, 09:20:19 pm: Not being able to move diagonally (as far as I've been able to discover)

ARMOK!!!
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on May 13, 2012, 09:21:49 pm: Chipped bones.

GRAFFFAHAHAHAHGHAWFJWOG *snort*
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Uzu Bash on May 13, 2012, 09:47:04 pm: Quote from: MHpersonalDwarf on May 13, 2012, 09:20:19 pm
Not being able to move diagonally (as far as I've been able to discover)
Numpad! My last laptop didn't have one, so I mapped all the movement keys around WASD. I was just learning the game, and this made all advice about controls confused to uselessness...
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Naryar on May 13, 2012, 10:30:28 pm: Rivers. Ranged weapons. Giant dingoes. Starting an adventurer and the first thing you fall on is a goddamn cyclops.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: DG on May 13, 2012, 10:41:50 pm: (http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Drunken_gun/warturkey.png)
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on May 13, 2012, 11:11:18 pm: *applauds*
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Trapezohedron on May 14, 2012, 04:49:44 am: Quote from: DG on May 13, 2012, 10:41:50 pm
-snip-

This deserves a sig.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Thorik on May 14, 2012, 07:02:00 am: I'm annoyed by the vampire spam. They're everywhere. They should be rare, not having 3 on the outskirts of every town I go to.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Uzu Bash on May 14, 2012, 09:52:55 am: Rope reed fiber annoys me. I don't know why, I just have this irrational revulsion to it. If I have to wear it, I'll trade it out as soon as possible, even for something lower quality. I'd rather wear pig leather.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: TheCoolSideofthePIllow on May 14, 2012, 01:20:27 pm: Quote from: MHpersonalDwarf on May 13, 2012, 09:20:19 pm
Not being able to move diagonally (as far as I've been able to discover)

ARMOK!!!

Numpad keys.

7, 8, 1 and 3 are diagonals.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Loud Whispers on May 14, 2012, 02:46:28 pm: Quote from: DG on May 13, 2012, 10:41:50 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa159/Drunken_gun/warturkey.png)

Wiki material :3
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Uzu Bash on May 18, 2012, 12:50:21 pm: The silhouette trails companions leave. They can never keep up, but I know they're not multiplied a dozen times in my wake. There isn't a mob in the corridor I just left. Why not just give me their last known position and clear the ones before?

In fact, everything about companions annoy me. So it annoys the shit out of me every time someone on this forum suggests "Get a companion!" -- fuck your companions. They're annoying.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: vicwarrior on May 18, 2012, 03:08:13 pm: Respawning guys i mean i can take them out by trowing crap at them while in completly invisible mode (get some skill on it and you can be right next to someone whitout him spotting you) but my companions dont got stealth and charge them getting killed and thus i can use them as meat shields further down in the catacombs also i hate that companions dont know how to swim.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: rtg593 on May 19, 2012, 01:50:57 pm: Companions annoy me. I never use em. More trouble than they're worth.

Instantly freezing rivers annoy me.

The only way I know to see the time us the fast travel screen, which isn't always available.

Oh, and it's not just the numberpad that moves you diagonally, any of the numbers can be used for movement. Useful on laptops without numberpads.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: CubeJackal on May 20, 2012, 09:32:35 am: Finding that one enemy who can fuck you over without breaking a sweat, yet appears no different to a member of the same species that you've cut through droves of before. I'm looking at you, giant dingo.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Mudcrab on May 20, 2012, 09:43:50 am: RIVERS!!!! Aaah man they are so annoying to cross over and over again.

Especially with the added dangers of fish and crocs, although that can be combated by strafing the river for a while, any hostiles will swim to the bank and you can keep hitting Shift+A to locate them (and also kill them)
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Uzu Bash on May 20, 2012, 09:51:51 am: It annoys me when I come back from a megabeast quest far, far away, far away from any civilization, known landmarks, or anyone who might give me the lay of the land, and the next quest they give is only about 5-6 world tiles past the lair I just came back from. Couldn't tell me about that place while I was in the neighborhood, huh?
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: maluraq on May 20, 2012, 04:33:10 pm: Right now the fact that dwarves don't seem to bank the corners of tracks bothers me -- I made a nice long spiral track to bring ore from my higher mine area to my lower magma smelters but the cart goes off the track at every corner, unless I add huge numbers of stops set to 'high' friction.

ugh.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Broseph Stalin on May 20, 2012, 04:48:26 pm: I have only two super pet peeves.

1. Crossbowmen who apparently camp in rooms with their weapons pointed at the door and their fingers on the trigger.
2. Going on a long trip and needing to spend about a week doing nothing but eating animals twice my size to sate my hunger.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Uzu Bash on May 21, 2012, 09:32:19 am: When playing an elf, I was always annoyed by human loot tables used where they wouldn't be. Why would dwarven, goblin and elvish tombs have nothing but human sized clothes and armor while the mummies themselves are wearing crap? Why is that elven bandit keeping a chest full of human clothing?
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Hanslanda on May 30, 2012, 01:20:19 am: Vampire with one thousand kills: I win.
Vampire with nine kills: I get violently disassembled in wrestling while wearing armor and using a weapon.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Dyret on May 30, 2012, 02:03:16 am: My dude insisting on picking up stuff with his 'empty' hand when multi-grasping. :/
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Sallen on May 30, 2012, 09:46:24 am: Getting killed in one shot by arrows/bolts every single time, and not being able to kill anything as a bowman and getting cut to pieces after shooting five arrows to a single axeman.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: maluraq on May 30, 2012, 04:49:43 pm: Hauler picking up stray bolts carrying nearly full bin only moves one tile every 45 steps (using '.').
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: FingO on May 31, 2012, 03:13:31 am: What annoys me to the max is that a lot of the actions you perform are pointless in the long run. I am not able to exterminate entire civs, heck, even if I start a new character all the law-givers, lords etc are replaced by other people.

I mean, suppose we have a decent monarchy. If I kill a law-giver and all of its kin, I expect the royal line to be extinct and not that some dork without a decent blood line replaces him.

As far as I remember the older version v0.31 had the possibility to do that; after manslaughtering one ruler, the next adventurer heard from the villagers that they do not have a capital. I felt so rewarded! I initiated the decline of a whole civilization! I think the only thing as rewarding was (in fortress mode) that a goblin ruler was overthrown after I captured him for one year (at that time supposing that I am able to starve him to death). But that is another story (and another game mode...)
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Rtyh-C on May 31, 2012, 04:14:57 am: Stopping to cross a river.

Stopping to cross more than one river.

Stopping to cross a river, which is actually a deep cliff, with ice at the bottom.

Elven adventurers not getting free waterskins. Seriously, how can you even get them in adventurer mode?
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: jimy on May 31, 2012, 06:04:07 am: Getting told in the first minuteshow stupid and dangerouse my idea to be an adventure is and then being send to kill a legendary vampire, a necromancer, one of the strongest bandits in the land and a titan.

Seriously... why can't I just kill some small goblins or a bear.
It seems like the peasants want me to have a lot of !!FUN!!.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Broseph Stalin on May 31, 2012, 06:33:33 am: Quote from: jimy on May 31, 2012, 06:04:07 am
Getting told in the first minuteshow stupid and dangerouse my idea to be an adventure is and then being send to kill a legendary vampire, a necromancer, one of the strongest bandits in the land and a titan.

Seriously... why can't I just kill some small goblins or a bear.
It seems like the peasants want me to have a lot of !!FUN!!.

Think about it from their perspective. Some stranger just barged into their house, demanded to spend the night, then asked them for a quest. They probably want you to die.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Xheia on May 31, 2012, 12:40:06 pm: What annoys me: the soldiers I recruit from lone fortresses (not in a city) have money pouches, but their currency is for that specific fortress and is worthless because it's not associated with a market/shops (AFAIK).
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 01, 2012, 12:27:19 am: Quote from: Rtyh-C on May 31, 2012, 04:14:57 am
Stopping to cross a river.

Stopping to cross more than one river.

Stopping to cross a river, which is actually a deep cliff, with ice at the bottom.

Elven adventurers not getting free waterskins. Seriously, how can you even get them in adventurer mode?

Fortresses have backpacks AND waterskins AND buckets. Buckets are way better than waterskins. A fortress is an Outsider's BEST FRIEND. :)
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Xantalos on June 01, 2012, 07:39:16 pm: What annoys me is waking up with my throat shot out by a gobbo. It is fun trying to kill all of them before I bleed out, though.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Random Spark on June 01, 2012, 11:09:07 pm: Losing all my travel companions because they can't retreat.

I was lucky enough to escape, have the goblins un-load from the site and come back to loot their bodies.. now i have no way to travel at night.
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Post by: Kriby on June 02, 2012, 08:46:44 am: Becoming really powerful on one adventurer and then getting the action speed bug and moving slower than I did at the start of the adventure.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Trapezohedron on June 02, 2012, 09:02:30 am: When people give me quests to take care of undersewer baddies.

Oh come on, just give me another quest guys.

Also, for the completionistic instinct in me, the fact that the creature quest will be forever lodged in my quest log irks me to no end.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Broseph Stalin on June 02, 2012, 09:24:46 am: I hate it when my companions divert their attention from our important quest so they can dive into a river and wrestle fish, only to remember mid fish-duel to realize they can't swim.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 02, 2012, 01:24:30 pm: Or chase down a herd of hippos in mid-river, kill several, get out of the river, and get stomped by a baboon. >.< Assholes, you just killed one ton vicious ungulates with three inch fangs while swimming in a river wearing metal armor, and wielding medieval weaponry, but a baboon comes at you in the woods and you get ganked? Seriously?
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Aseaheru on June 02, 2012, 01:26:26 pm: when i join as a peasant and are told to kill a wherebeast that can only be hurt with iron.
and i start with a copper spear.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: lignition on June 02, 2012, 05:47:39 pm: This has probably been mentioned before, but I get annoyed when I can never sneak because a bird is watching me somewhere offscreen. I also get annoyed with how frequently this happens.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Logic on June 02, 2012, 08:36:54 pm: I really hate going from Fast Travel mode to standard walking just to cross a river. It should allow you to fast travel through rivers if you can swim. ::)
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: EnigmaticHat on June 13, 2012, 02:15:37 pm: Bandits attacking you when they really shouldn't. Like, I went a bunch of empty area to get to a small evil mountain range, and then was ambushed coming back. I was in a wild forest crisscrossed all over with rivers, north of (normal) mountain range that contained a dwarf fortress that was nearly four days away, the nearest settlement was an elven retreat two days away, and there was nothing for at least a week of travel the way I was coming from. Its like... why were those bandits even there? No merchant was ever going through. Its like they said, "hey guys, lets patrol that one specific wilderness location in the middle of nowhere, maybe someone will randomly be there this time!" Except that if I had picked a different way, they would have been able to ambush me there too...
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: RenoFox on June 15, 2012, 05:17:12 pm: Sewers, those accursed sewers! I have never found a single quest target there, despite systematically combing the entire sewers of a big city. I hope you get to refuse quests soon, and preferably also insult the quest giver as well.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Joben on June 15, 2012, 10:42:52 pm: Companions maniacally chasing passive wildlife is annoying. I lost a perfectly good Axeman today. He took off after a two-humped camel alone, and killed it, but not before it turned his right leg into pulp. He literally crawled back to the party and died. Idiot.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Leatra on June 16, 2012, 04:43:56 am: Quest-givers who give me a quest to find someone in a big fucking settlement. At least give me directions to his house or something.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Powder Miner on June 16, 2012, 09:53:30 am: Quote from: Loud Whispers on May 06, 2012, 09:13:44 am
Because nameless new archers are supposed to be able to hit and make adventurers pass out from a chipped bone from farther away than anyone else can see. ::)
ftfy
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Xantalos on June 16, 2012, 08:54:15 pm: Having to swim across oceans.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: the woods on June 17, 2012, 01:43:19 am: Swimming across oceans is one of my favorite things currently. You gain speed from the skill increases so it's like you put your arms straight down your sides and fire off from the gabbro beach like a torpedo.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Headhanger on June 17, 2012, 02:13:02 am: Quote from: Xantalos on June 16, 2012, 08:54:15 pm
Having to swim across oceans.
I wholeheartedly agree! Where are our boats?

Missing a naked peasant nine times out of ten because my axe skill is so low.
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Post by: bitesh on June 18, 2012, 09:15:24 pm: Quote from: Rtyh-C on May 31, 2012, 04:14:57 am
Stopping to cross a river.

Stopping to cross more than one river.

Stopping to cross a river, which is actually a deep cliff, with ice at the bottom.

Elven adventurers not getting free waterskins. Seriously, how can you even get them in adventurer mode?

Stopping to cross a river that turns out to not actually be there!
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: helmacon on June 18, 2012, 11:43:45 pm: When you get ambushed at night, an all the ambushers have to get in your sight, so theres 10 goblins literaly 2 tiles from you.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: hops on June 19, 2012, 12:57:54 am: Bogeymen
I never got killed by the buggers but I had to retire a good lot of my adventurers from nerve damage.
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Post by: Headhanger on June 19, 2012, 02:50:29 am: The lag when moving through a town's dungeon/crypts/sewage system.

I doubt there's much that can be done about that though.
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Post by: the woods on June 19, 2012, 09:30:39 am: You could kill all the people moving around, slowing the game down.
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Post by: Naryar on June 19, 2012, 09:52:25 am: Giant dingos.

Giant fucking dingos.

Also, not being able to know what is in a cave when you enter it. When you fall on a cougar as your rookie adventurer it's generally fine, but when the first cave you search has a cyclops, or even worse a dragon... and that you cannot outspeed it, or can outspeed it by dropping all equipment and therefore getting mauled by a badger.

I don't know, you should be able to identify a dragon's lair quickly due to brimstone smell/large amounts of gold or something, a cyclops's lair due to sheep, an ogre's lair due to large amounts of hoarded food...

Losing may be fun, but not three times in a row.
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Post by: Loud Whispers on June 19, 2012, 12:42:26 pm: Quote from: bitesh on June 18, 2012, 09:15:24 pm
Quote from: Rtyh-C on May 31, 2012, 04:14:57 am
Stopping to cross a river.

Stopping to cross more than one river.

Stopping to cross a river, which is actually a deep cliff, with ice at the bottom.

Elven adventurers not getting free waterskins. Seriously, how can you even get them in adventurer mode?

Stopping to cross a river that turns out to not actually be there!

Frozen rivers. Tread carefully lest you fall to your doom.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: hector13 on June 20, 2012, 06:36:21 pm: Spending a half hour looking for and then harassing small wildlife to up my defensive stats, only to get my first quest to a bandit camp and made into a pin-cushion by the crossbowstards.

Also, my undead attacking every-single-living creature they come across, and those every-single-living creatures not caring about me talking to them mid-fight.

Urist McDisembodiedHead's Head bites Urist McRandomMerchant in the right foot, latching on!

"Hi, can I buy all your gems?"
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Hanslanda on June 20, 2012, 06:48:46 pm: Urist McUndead shakes Urist McMerchant around by the right foot, and the severed part sails off in an arc.
"Sure, let's see what you have to offer. Hurry though, I may be dying of bloodloss."
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Post by: Headhanger on June 21, 2012, 02:08:56 am: Quote from: Loud Whispers on June 19, 2012, 12:42:26 pm
Frozen rivers. Tread carefully lest you fall to your doom.
Tread lightly for you tread on my streams?

Edit: Four monsters to kill in the capital's sewers (a vampire, two olm men, and a cave fish woman), only two sewer entrances in the town (a third if you count the connection between the keep dungeon and the sewer tunnels, but the dungeon is/was full of (now dead) bat men and kobolds).

After exploring every dry inch of the sewers and even swimming through the submerged parts (savescumming when I drowned :( ) I make my way to the river, but it is down a five z-level cliff!

Damn these sewer quests! Damn them to the third cavern layer! Damn them to the CIRCUS!
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: miauw62 on June 21, 2012, 04:09:42 am: The dungeon people respawn if i am right.
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Post by: Headhanger on June 21, 2012, 04:39:48 am: Quote from: miauw62 on June 21, 2012, 04:09:42 am
The dungeon people respawn if i am right.
They do. Not the named ones, obviously. But that doesn't help me find the miscreants in the sewer.

Although, I have now found them by diving off the cliff into the river. The sewer outlets are all down there, and the olm/amphibian people I've been quested to kill are hanging out underwater. Vampires don't breathe, so he's down there too. My elite crossbowman companion drowned. :'(
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Post by: bitesh on June 30, 2012, 03:01:15 am: Quote from: Loud Whispers on June 19, 2012, 12:42:26 pm
Quote from: bitesh on June 18, 2012, 09:15:24 pm
Quote from: Rtyh-C on May 31, 2012, 04:14:57 am
Stopping to cross a river.

Stopping to cross more than one river.

Stopping to cross a river, which is actually a deep cliff, with ice at the bottom.

Elven adventurers not getting free waterskins. Seriously, how can you even get them in adventurer mode?

Stopping to cross a river that turns out to not actually be there!

Frozen rivers. Tread carefully lest you fall to your doom.

Really? Wow, guess I've been super lucky then...
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: darkrider2 on June 30, 2012, 02:51:25 pm: One time I was crossing a major river and it froze on top of me, instant death.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: orius on June 30, 2012, 07:07:56 pm: Getting ambushed by archers at night while I'm sleeping. Then one of them shoots me in the head while I'm waking up. Hate not being able to react to stuff.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Johuotar on June 30, 2012, 07:09:29 pm: Sleeping people counterattacking me.
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Post by: Angel Of Death on July 01, 2012, 11:41:05 pm: Bruised brains. Fucking. BRUISED. BRAINS. How I hate them.
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Post by: Hanslanda on July 01, 2012, 11:45:33 pm: Hyenas. Holy shit, Hyenas. I killed two whole... SWARMS of the bastards in ambushs, got to the camp, killed everyone but the leader, he shot me. I fled, and came back healed. What do I find?
A motherfucking leader's corpse, in a field of blood, surrounded by two dead hyenas and thirty living hyenas.

I rezzed the corpses. >:( I'll teach you little bastards to mess with a necromancer.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Friendstrange on July 02, 2012, 12:40:32 am: Being unable to minimize the things in bags.
Yes I have a bazilion crossbow bolts, all unstacked. Do you have to show me every one of them?

Or being unable to stack things of the same make. Fifty =sharp phylite= can get annoying to wade through.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Corai on July 02, 2012, 12:41:09 am: Quote from: Hanslanda on July 01, 2012, 11:45:33 pm
Hyenas. Holy shit, Hyenas. I killed two whole... SWARMS of the bastards in ambushs, got to the camp, killed everyone but the leader, he shot me. I fled, and came back healed. What do I find?
A motherfucking leader's corpse, in a field of blood, surrounded by two dead hyenas and thirty living hyenas.

I rezzed the corpses. >:( I'll teach you little bastards to mess with a necromancer.

Thats win.
Title: Re: What Annoys You?
Post by: Hanslanda on July 02, 2012, 01:07:40 am: Yeah, it was win, but the little bastards are annoying. I have no idea how a pack of hyenas got into the camp at the leader, but I was pretty damn pissed when it happened.