Game Development: Chicks, Cocks and Penetration

[sonerohi]

My archer feedback is as follows: with 12 marksmanship, a quality 79 bow, and q40 bone arrows, it took me about two minutes to get the meter 80% or so full on stationary mouflons, and when my shots connected, I did high 80's for damage. After hearing the wonders of a sling from a town member, I got a quality 220 one from him, and within a minute can get 90% on a jittery critter (where they try to run even though they are grinding on a barrier, and still upset the meter a bit) and did enough damage so as to slay in one shot. I think it works pretty well.

[Bonsoy]

Now swimming mode is on by default is you have skill. Lost my hunter when he landed from wrong side of boat and drowned

Me too... But I think it might have been strange lag aswell.

[Jackard]

Now swimming mode is on by default is you have skill. Lost my hunter when he landed from wrong side of boat and drowned :cry:

Me too... But I think it might have been strange lag aswell.

Has it happened on more than one login?

[Haba]

Did a test on a low-level alt w. 10 per/35 marks/q51 bow against a level 2 boar. The bar fills up real slow (compared to more high level main). In the end I got bored of waiting and shot with the bar 1/4th full. Hit and killed the boar instantly. The fact that enemy attacks interrupt aiming was not a nice discovery.

[DeadlyPencil]

you know if you use a sling it goes up 2x as fast. your not suppose to use a bow on someone with 35 marksmanship.

[Haba]

Or am I? I had no trouble hitting things, it was just the bar that never actually filled up. In comparison, even with 120 marks and full (95%) bar I could still occasionally miss. Might be that I just got lucky several times in a row, got bored with my alt once I noticed that melee attacks interrupt aiming (don't reduce the bar, interrupt it totally).

[kimya]

this new ranged update could be used to implement one of the "mini-games" you talked about a while ago.

i think you should not be able to get the aiming bar up just by waiting, no matter how bad your marksman/per whatever is. cutting the aiming bar at a certain point, depending on your skills, and at the same time drastically reducing the time to aim would make fighting with ranged weapons more fun, as it would be faster. the "mini game" could be that the bar raises quickly until it reaches its max (as suggested, cut at a certain point) and then falling down again. the speed of raising/falling could be dependent on your strength. the stronger you are, the longer you can aim. its actually really hard to pull the sinew all the way back and hold it for a long time...

hmm, just a thought.

[Avu]

Please no more str dependency. If you want to add another stat in the mix add dexterity.

[sabinati]

Please no more str dependency. If you want to add another stat in the mix add dexterity.

heh, you and i would be deadly then

[Avu]

I got high perception too but I still find bows way too tedious, the lack of backpack and the constant need to change the weapon so I can butcher wears me down.