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Dwarf Fortress => DF Suggestions => Topic started by: Deon on April 27, 2008, 12:31:00 pm

Title: Fighting dragons (and stuff).
Post by: Deon on April 27, 2008, 12:31:00 pm
It's the first dragon I've encountered.
I don't play adventurer mod too often.

I felt myself like I mined a rock with a pickaxe, so many hits and no result...
Dragons are boring.
Actually, I was a proficient spearman and competent shield user, so nothing special. I just made the dragon to feel pain, gouged its eye and stroke him about thousand times with my spear. At last I manage to hit him in the head, breaking his fangs and piercong his brain.


P.S. My comments on this:
The Toady should definitely raise the pain threshold (or make it a raw parameter) for dragons, for now I can disable one just by twisting a spear in it's leg (4-5 times), though it's very hard to pierce it's armor.
Also shield blocking is overpowered too, it should be lowered. I blocked most attacks, though I wasn't too cool in shield using.
http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/movie-531-miningdragons

Everything above is jus my opinion (just in a case  :)).

Title: Re: Fighting dragons (and stuff).
Post by: Cthulhu on April 27, 2008, 12:33:00 pm
quote:
stroke him about thousand times with my spear.

You could cut the innuendo with a knife.

Title: Re: Fighting dragons (and stuff).
Post by: Neonivek on April 27, 2008, 01:11:00 pm
I don't know... the Dragon never got a good hit on you beyond igniting one of your items... and I believe if it did it could have killed you.

Forget cutting the Inuendo with a knife... we could shovel it to power 12 city blocks

Title: Re: Fighting dragons (and stuff).
Post by: Draco18s on April 27, 2008, 03:49:00 pm
Wot's this?  Dragon spear stroking?
Copious amounts of bodily fluids flowing over the ground afterwards?
Come on!
Title: Re: Fighting dragons (and stuff).
Post by: Deon on April 27, 2008, 03:51:00 pm
Neonivek, I told you that I think that :shield blocking is overpowered too:.
That's why he hadn't have a chance to hit me hard. And it's with a competent shield skill. It doesn't look too balanced.

[EDIT] Draco18s, can you explain me your sarcasm? What was the main meaning of your post, what did you want me to get from your words?

[ April 27, 2008: Message edited by: Deon ]

Title: Re: Fighting dragons (and stuff).
Post by: Draco18s on April 28, 2008, 02:26:00 pm
quote:
Originally posted by Deon:
<STRONG>Draco18s, can you explain me your sarcasm? What was the main meaning of your post, what did you want me to get from your words?</STRONG>

Rampant sexual innuendo.

Title: Re: Fighting dragons (and stuff).
Post by: Neonivek on April 28, 2008, 02:57:00 pm
"it's with a competent shield skill. It doesn't look too balanced"

What I meant was that I think that for a dragon battle you are actually supposed to rely on your shield, that it is your only line of defense and fighting a dragon without such is suicide.

Though I think your battle was either glitchy or a huge fluke... but then again I have yet to actually see a dragon in Adventure mode.

If there is anything your video truely tells me needs to be balanced... it is Wrestling and its godly Eye gouging attack that when executed properly means instant victory. Without such your chance of survival would have greatly been reduced.

[ April 28, 2008: Message edited by: Neonivek ]