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I can imagine the BC with a molten core that, when breached, causes death. The fiery blood of the mountains indeed.

It's hilariously cruel to everyone else, too.

"Haha! I finally damaged the OH GOD I'M ON FIIIIRE"

Also, for the people saying that they can't see any value in the new materials system.... have you been reading the devlog? Did you listen to the teaser for the next recorded call?!

A bronze colossus is no longer just a really tall guy with inexplicably hard skin. It's now actually a giant man made out of bronze, just like it should be. In fact they're now invincible, which arose just from the fact they're made out of solid bronze. If this doesn't excite you, you may be playing the wrong game.

The possibilites for creature creation alone are amazing. No more 'oh I want to make this guy out of stone, how much DAMBLOCK would that be worth?', you can just actually make the guy out of stone.

The more terrifying thing is that he's probably mostly naked under his armour apart from say one glove and maybe a vest, knowing how dwarves like to dress

Quote from: Aqizzar on August 26, 2009, 02:59:19 pm

I think your idea of ancient warfare is a little skewed.  Sieges and battle arrangements could last days, where for the most part troops would just stand around shouting at each other, and occasionally lobbing a volley of arrows, but not very often so as to not waste them.  The actual swinging-chopping-stabbing portions of battles would typically last about as long as one charge, until one side or the other lost it's nerve and retreated.  This could cycle and repeat itself several times, but it's not like people were actually out there swinging a sword for hours on end.  No one has that kind of stamina.

I'm well acquainted with ancient warfare, actually

Skirmishing forces can fight for hours on end without tiring. I myself have partaken in small-scale classical warfare and a lightly armoured (maille or less) fighter can quite easily fight for three or fours hours without stopping or even getting too fatigued. this sounds a little longer than the "one charge" you put forward. I agree that whole battles didn't consist of people properly getting up close, but they could quite easily last longer than the "blink and you'll miss it" DF combat.

A situation where you're all playing fancy dress and swinging some swords around at each other with no intention of killing anyone is pretty different from going into an actual fight where people are trying to kill you.

For one thing, it's pretty hard to continue for three or four hours when someone has removed your head from your shoulders, or crushed your ribcage with a blow from a warhammer.

Am I the only one who gets a huge kick out of reading the devlog? I don't even play Dwarf Fortress that often, and I've been around since the very beginning of DF, but I still haven't lost interest. I'm eagerly awaiting the next one, and the long wait hasn't bothered me.

No, I'm in the same boat as you. I haven't played DF for a while myself, but I love the simulation aspect more than I like the actual game aspect. So the upcoming release has a lot going for it, as far as I am concerned.

The detail would be there, it only wouldn't be so available. I think it goes against the very concept of the game the fact you know so much about a wound in the very moment you are doing it without even analising it, or without even a basic medical skill.

So what, you want the combat reports to be subjective to what you, the person, could possibly know? That would be difficult to track and also probably fairly frustrating, giving you could be bashing away for ages not knowing if you're doing any damage or not.

And I really don't see why you're complaining about it. I mean it's not really something your actually adventurer would know, it's more like a DM in an RP telling you that you just did however many HP damage.

I love that in DF, the part where you're punching a guy in the finger and that isn't the weird part