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Many features are broken/unfinished.

Behavior is not working as intended right now, so responses don't make sense/are underwhelming. Your enemies may politely chat with you while tearing your arms off, or run screaming for their lives. When you finish a quest you're just met with indifference. This is all normal.

When you ask about quests, who you ask can determine how much info you get, but this varies and is inconsistent.

If you check for quests with Inquire about any Troubles, it'll be more random as to what you get.

Bring up specific incident or rumor *normally works better* but this is based on where you spawn. Usually I use this and just spread the first 2 pages of rumors, asking for directions to the mentioned location. This should be abductions, or semimegabeasts and then night trolls first if it's about "name of creature" being present in a certain area. It could also be about power struggles.

When I spawn in the wrong location they'll go on about titans and megabeasts.

Bring up specific incident or rumor is broken since an NPC who may have no idea where anything is when Inquired about any Troubles, will now be able to give you information.

So everything's off.

Companions seem more given to bravery when you have a small Rumrusher warband. Maybe that's just more chances for positive reactions to "insert creature name," but when you only travel with two there's generally just flight.

Here there's just 6 of us. Funny thing is the swordswoman makes her fifth notable kill, earns her name, and then just vaunts. Yes, it's just a bear, but I've never seen such enthusiasm from the likes of someone:
And then the pure finality whose seriousness is for once not laughable as it would have been in the snark of the real world:

If you give a giant [NATURAL_SKILL:MELEE_COMBAT:3] is this just the minimum skill (which world gen could make much higher) or the set, unchanging skill level?

So yeah, it's just weird. I modded in gambesons but not any insert adjective plate armor.

Just autoattack the person your weapon is stuck in. You pull out the weapon and it only takes a single frame.

No, no, I had said one way was to move in the direction of your opponent (with the auto attack). Reducing negative outcome isn't the issue.

It's the just strange that there are two outcomes. One has no cost, the other if navigated poorly has potentially high cost.

I happen to think the autotattack should have the same costly result as interacting with a stuckin. Sort of like how grab should negate dodge away.

There are two ways of dealing with stuckins. You either move in the direction of your opponent, or you interact with your weapon wrestling it out.

In the first case you simply regain your weapon. This looks like one tick and there is no cost to you.

When you choose to interact and wrestle it out, either nothing happens or other things do indeed happen since this looks like 2+ ticks. Your opponent may be able to attack a few times. How dangerous that is, is situational.

I'm not sure why there's this separation of outcome. Anyone else notice this?

I think the stuckin should be something potentially dangerous to navigate. Whenever you can spam attacks or pay less and less attention, things in-game suffer from inflation and the value of everything just goes down.

Plenty of things are still at placeholder status. For example, several weapons don't quite make any sense/don't negotiate the terrain they should, but that's been the case for 34.xx going backwards.

Sometimes when you're generating a new character (of regular dwarf height), you get very very luck and he/she is strapped with massive amounts of muscle and lard from the start, instead of going through a series repeat feedings before their first fight (and hopefully getting this cretinous transformation early).

Just now, I got to see the short dwarf version:

The description normally might have been "he's not tall, but has incredible muscles, continue fire hydrant description etc, etc"

The whole muscle and lard thing I gradually forgot about once there was 40.xx's zombie thread which for me discouraged 34.11's facing/stand and trade approach where blocking meant more than dodging. Well that, combat speed, and how pulping nerfed the padding effect of being as meaty and fat as possible. It started that sea change when I never really rolled a character with superior STR for the remainder of last fall/winter until I came back to DF this July.