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  • Thraalbee
    Knight
    • Sep 2010
    • 707

    I'm on a 3840x2160 display and it works fine with full screen in ascii mode.

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    • takkaria
      Veteran
      • Apr 2007
      • 1951

      Originally posted by gglibertine
      So last week I upgraded my machine and monitor, giving me 3840x1600 resolution, which I *naturally* wanted to harness for Angband in ASCII mode. I take it that the game isn't able to handle widescreen display like that? Because I'm finding that if I attempt anything beyond a 16:9 aspect ratio, the map cuts off at what appears to be column 80. No more fullscreen single-window Angband for me, I guess.
      The game is limited to 255 characters height or wide. Keep within that and you should be fine?
      takkaria whispers something about options. -more-

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      • bron
        Knight
        • May 2008
        • 515

        Originally posted by PowerWyrm
        Try fightning the Tarrasque with both immunities to fire and ice with or without the option and you'll notice the difference very quickly
        I dunno .. my latest comp character fought the Tarrasque with Cold immunity, and the creature breathed frost 3 times in a short span of turns.

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        • Diego Gonzalez
          Adept
          • May 2007
          • 170

          The older I get the more I avoid the Tarrasque...

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          • Chud
            Swordsman
            • Jun 2010
            • 309

            Originally posted by Diego Gonzalez
            The older I get the more I avoid the Tarrasque...
            Good idea, except that I usually die before I get that old. :-)

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            • PowerWyrm
              Prophet
              • Apr 2008
              • 2986

              Originally posted by Diego Gonzalez
              The older I get the more I avoid the Tarrasque...
              Now imagine fighting the damn thing... in real time!

              PWMAngband variant maintainer - check https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!

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              • Diego Gonzalez
                Adept
                • May 2007
                • 170

                A fragment of your fight:

                The Tarrasque breathes disenchantment.
                You feel very good.
                The Tarrasque breathes disenchantment.
                You die...

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                • Sphara
                  Knight
                  • Oct 2016
                  • 504

                  I chose randarts in 4.2.0 and I came up with this.

                  I already thought Wormtongue boots were quite overpowered because of the double movement, but this item takes movement speed buff to whole new level. +30 speed for running purposes and turncount adds in every fourth step.

                  I should probably try a massive turncount run with the game I have in hands.
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                  • Diego Gonzalez
                    Adept
                    • May 2007
                    • 170

                    In my current game, dwarf druid, my randarts have a noticeable lack of sustains. It was made that way?

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                    • Derakon
                      Prophet
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 9022

                      Originally posted by Diego Gonzalez
                      In my current game, dwarf druid, my randarts have a noticeable lack of sustains. It was made that way?
                      Just one game, I'd call that bad luck. If it was happening repeatedly that'd be a different matter.

                      My experience with randarts is that often there's something you want that just doesn't seem to be available. It's one of the reasons randarts are more interesting than standarts.

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                      • Diego Gonzalez
                        Adept
                        • May 2007
                        • 170

                        Thanks! I opted to wield a crown of might to melee Morgoth.

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                        • Pete Mack
                          Prophet
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 6883

                          @Diego--
                          That is a fairly common choice with standard artifacts, too. (Shield of preservation being a second option.) Crown of Might is a very powerful ego item.

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                          • fph
                            Veteran
                            • Apr 2009
                            • 1030

                            Originally posted by Sphara
                            I chose randarts in 4.2.0 and I came up with this.

                            I already thought Wormtongue boots were quite overpowered because of the double movement, but this item takes movement speed buff to whole new level. +30 speed for running purposes and turncount adds in every fourth step.

                            I should probably try a massive turncount run with the game I have in hands.
                            Boots of pillar-dancing +3 --- I guess this takes "shoot and duck behind a corner" tactics to a whole new level.
                            --
                            Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse.

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                            • archolewa
                              Swordsman
                              • Feb 2019
                              • 400

                              Just finished my first successful 4.2.0 game. I was running a paladin, and have some feedback for that class.

                              First, I'm really digging the Paladin's new, much more focused spell list. I made good use of just about every spell (except the brandings, because a young gold dragon dropped Fingolfin's sword on floor 42...), and in general I was very happy with it. Just a few criticisms:

                              1. Protection from Evil - I found this spell to be pretty much useless. By the time I had enough mana, and a low enough spell failure rate to make this worth casting I was well past the point where monters of a lower level posed any sort of threat. If we want to keep this spell, I really think we should do something like make the effective level of the repulsion scale based on the paladin's Wisdom. For example, maybe a level 50 Paladin with maxed Wisdom is considered level 100 for the purposes of the spell. That way at the end game (assuming you have enough +Wis items), pretty much everyone except Morgoth can be repulsed. Not as good as Runes of Warding, but still not just taking up space.

                              2. Enchant Armor - This came way too late to be all that effective. I used it a few times, because I got *garbage* cloak drops, so my poor Elven Cloak of Stealth was in pretty sorry shape by the time I got this spell. If we put this where Protection from Evil currently is, I think it would be a much more useful spell.

                              Honestly though I kind of think we should just replace both of these spells with two spells that put temporary resistances to your character's shield (basically the armor equivalent of the temporary brand spells). Maybe resistance to Darkness where Protection from Evil is now, and Protection from Nether where Enchant Armor is now. Note: These would be temporary *armor* resistance, so it wouldn't stack with resistances on your armor like normal temporary resistance does. Like the brands, they would basically let you patch holes and give you equipment flexibility, which feels like the Paladin's strength these days.

                              This could be confusing though because it breaks the temporary-permanent rule stacking rule. Don't know if that's worth doing.

                              3. Single Combat - A *wonderful* spell, especially for dealing with monsters who summon (like you know almost all the really dangerous uniques, and the only two monsters in the game you *have* to defeat). However, I'm wondering if it might be a bit too wonderful. It's basically an always-on, cast-for-free Mass Banishment, and sure you don't get to run away either, but nobody can one-shot a paladin by themselves unless the player lets themselves get really low. This probably needs to be nerfed some. A few possibilities:

                              a. The spell drains mana from the paladin every turn its active. Not much of a debuff in the final fights when you have a ton of mana potions, but it does give you one extra thing to keep a very close eye on. You really don't want your mana to run out and dump you amongst a horde of dragons at an inopportune time.

                              b. Summoning still doesn't work, but it does have a chance of canceling single combat (the chance would presumably scale based on level and wisdom?).

                              c. The spell just has a limited duration. This one is the least interesting to me personally.


                              Anyway, just food for thought. I had a ton of fun, keep up the good work!

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                              • Derakon
                                Prophet
                                • Dec 2009
                                • 9022

                                Something that just occurred to me re: Protection from Evil: it works similarly to Glyph of Warding, except that it only affects evil monsters. So why not make it basically a "worn" Glyph? That is, it protects against all evil attacks, but each such attack has a chance to break the spell, with the chance depending on the monster's level (or possibly the monster's level vs. the player's level).

                                The current implementation seems fundamentally unbalanceable -- if it's useful, then it's too good. So it needs to work differently to be usable.

                                Temporary resists are a reasonable idea as well.

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