Angband 4.2.0

[Mudd]

There is a new stat I am not familiar with. Damage Reduction +5 was on a pc of armor i found. Not sure how this translates?!

[Choronzon]

Just started back up again after a bit of a break and digging this version a lot. Thanks

[Nick]

Can you miss with a ranged weapon and not wake up an enemy, but if you miss with a melee weapon they wake?

Correct. An attempt at melee explicitly wakes the monster, but a monster hit by a missile is only woken if the missile hits.

[DavidMedley]

Can you miss with a ranged weapon and not wake up an enemy, but if you miss with a melee weapon they wake?

[PopTart]

I absolutely LOVE playing as a mage in 4.2.0. The mana management is so much more interesting! I love how I can hold mana in magical devices. The ability to recharge magical devices has made them such a huge part of the game for me. The offense spells are so much more logical, one element is missile-shaped, one is cone-shaped, one is bolt-shaped, one is ball-shaped.

[DavidMedley]

White Wraiths seem to be very undervalued for XP. I detected one next to an Emperor Wight, which gives 4x the XP despite being very similar.

[Pete Mack]

Mandos (as a replacement for Azriel) remains my preferred one. Azriel was seriously scary.

[Nick]

Question about Ainur rework: why removing Arien and Radagast?

Because they were basically good Tolkienien characters - it would feel like fighting Beren or Gandalf. I originally removed Ossë for the same reason, but was persuaded that he was sufficiently ambiguous to go back.

[PowerWyrm]

Question about Ainur rework: why removing Arien and Radagast?

[Pete Mack]

Feature requesrt: get rid of level limit on branded weapons. I recently started a game in an older version that has no level limits on ego items, and found a lightning brand MoD. It's no good as an endgame weapon, but it still cuts a wide swath through everything except the bosses: 660 damage against almost everything. But in more recent versions, branded weapons top out before the MoD appears natively, so the combination is almost impossible. It'd also be a step towards solving the problem where deep GCVs only have endgame-quality ego items, which turns great items into the commonplace.

[Diego Gonzalez]

As long as the vault is sealed, you can safely simulate this by taking your esp-granting gear off for a turn.

Usually that item grants rpoison and free action...

[fph]

As long as the vault is sealed, you can safely simulate this by taking your esp-granting gear off for a turn.

...or vomiting your mushrooms of Second Sight for one turn?

[luneya]

The toggle I'd like to see is the ability to temporarily toggle-off ESP, so that I can easily see what treasure is underneath all those monsters in a vault.

As long as the vault is sealed, you can safely simulate this by taking your esp-granting gear off for a turn.

[archolewa]

The toggle I'd like to see is the ability to temporarily toggle-off ESP, so that I can easily see what treasure is underneath all those monsters in a vault.

This would also make it easier to see if the monster is in line of sight, which isnt always obvious, at least not to me.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

The toggle I'd like to see is the ability to temporarily toggle-off ESP, so that I can easily see what treasure is underneath all those monsters in a vault.