Angband 4.2.0

[Chud]

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

Good idea, except that I usually die before I get that old. :-)

[Diego Gonzalez]

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

[bron]

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.

[takkaria]

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?

[Thraalbee]

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

[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.

[fruviad]

If you could zip it and post it here, that would be great.

It's attached.

[Nick]

I made a copy of the savefile. Don't know whether it might be of help to examine it, but it's available if someone wants to take a look.

If you could zip it and post it here, that would be great.

[fruviad]

I think this is a bug. I have looked around, but haven't found any similar reports. Sound familiar to anyone?

Angband 4.2.0. Ubuntu 18.04.

I (Dunadan Mage) have wielded:

Augmented Chain Mail of Elvenkind (-2) [42,+12] <+1> {cursed}
Dropped by Ufthak of Cirith Ungol at 700 feet (level 14)

It makes you vulnerable to fire attacks, but resistant to cold.
+1 stealth.
Provides resistance to acid, lightning, fire, cold, light.
Cannot be harmed by acid.

I appear to have fully ID'd the item. If I examine it, there's no indication of un-ID'd features. If I cast "Identify Rune", I'm told "You have nothing to identify."

But...if I look at the grid showing equipment and resistances ("C" "<space>"), I see about 24 question marks on a variety of resistances. That's usually an indication that the item has un-ID'd runes.

Un-wielding / re-wielding the item has no effect on this disparity.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to repro it yet. I'm also unsure of the exact order in which the properties and curses were revealed with "Identify Rune".

I made a copy of the savefile. Don't know whether it might be of help to examine it, but it's available if someone wants to take a look.

[wobbly]

Now that two competitions have been finished (congrats to Ingwe for the latest, btw) and several good players have played with "Monsters learn from their mistakes" on, I'd like to ask if anyone has noticed any increase in difficulty because of it.

I don't know how exactly this birth option works but nevertheless, I have not noticed it's turned on. Haven't even thought about it while playing. 4.2.0 itself is a bit harder than a previous version, THAT I have noticed (in a totally positive way).

I noticed no difference. I'm not sure whether it checks for immunity or just resistance, my understanding is something like:

no change for mindless casters
50% chance of removing the spell for standard casters (on observation of fail)
99% chance for intelligent casters

[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

[Ingwe Ingweron]

"Monsters learn from their mistakes" on, I'd like to ask if anyone has noticed any increase in difficulty because of it.

I did notice some difference with the regularity of particularly damaging spell choices or healing spell rapidity with monsters if the melee went too long, giving the monster a chance to take advantage. That said, it seems far less broken than it once was when, long ago, it made winning against healing monsters virtually impossible.

[Sphara]

Now that two competitions have been finished (congrats to Ingwe for the latest, btw) and several good players have played with "Monsters learn from their mistakes" on, I'd like to ask if anyone has noticed any increase in difficulty because of it.

I don't know how exactly this birth option works but nevertheless, I have not noticed it's turned on. Haven't even thought about it while playing. 4.2.0 itself is a bit harder than a previous version, THAT I have noticed (in a totally positive way).

[Grotug]

Knight's shield vs Mithril Shield: I wonder if there should be a larger AC difference between the two shields? (15 vs 16 is kind of small). Before Knight was added, all other shields had a difference of 3 or 4 AC. Maybe Mithril should get bumped to [18]?

Wicker [2]
Small metal [5]
Leather [8]
Large [12]
Knight's [15]
Mithril [16]

[Chud]

The message spam is still really annoying, though, and I'll have to try and find a way around it.

If the timing guarantees that no other important messages can be interleaved with these, maybe at least turn off pause between messages, do all this, and then turn it back on again? At least that way the message spam doesn't make you page through it.