Angband 4.2.0

[Nick]

Feature request:
Thrall/lost soul mode. V definitely needs this.

Where would the player start, do you think? Any special gear/conditions?

[Pete Mack]

DL 40 or so, maybe start on stairs.
Equipment along these lines:
Lantern
Wand of MM for full caster.
Longbow and 20 arrows for everyone else
5 ?PD, 5 CLW(?)
1 !Hero
Dagger (or class dependent suitable weapon)
Book 1
?Teleport

I am not sure you should have class options beyond warrior and rogue.

[wobbly]

dlvl 99
40 mushrooms of sprinting
40 mushrooms of terror
40 mushrooms of shadow
40 mushrooms of second sight
40 mushrooms of emergency
a flask of whisky

[DrWho42]

dlvl 99
40 mushrooms of sprinting
40 mushrooms of terror
40 mushrooms of shadow
40 mushrooms of second sight
40 mushrooms of emergency
a flask of whisky

mushroom for improvement

[PowerWyrm]

In ToME you start on dl99 I think with nothing more than your usual starting gear.

[Thraalbee]

No teleport but ?destruction

[Derakon]

In ToME you start on dl99 I think with nothing more than your usual starting gear.

Don't you also get innate ESP until you make it back to the surface?

I'd be in favor of the mushroom start.

[Nick]

Don't you also get innate ESP until you make it back to the surface?

Also wraith form so you can walk through walls IIRC.

[Pete Mack]

Ok, THAT explains why dl 99 might be survivable. No way with an ordinary CL 1 character with no escapes

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Bug: Trap Immunity rune is not learned from Boots of Wormtongue, even though @ is walking over traps left and right with impunity.

Edit: Also, the Boots of Wormtongue say they have +1 movement speed, but even though @ has plenty of weight carrying capacity and is not overfed, no speed bump is shown on the character's speed. Where is the speed?

[Nick]

Bug: Trap Immunity rune is not learned from Boots of Wormtongue, even though @ is walking over traps left and right with impunity.

OK, thanks.

Edit: Also, the Boots of Wormtongue say they have +1 movement speed, but even though @ has plenty of weight carrying capacity and is not overfed, no speed bump is shown on the character's speed. Where is the speed?

Movement speed means only speed while moving. It's like extra shots, with +1 movement speed you get to take a step with half the normal move energy.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Movement speed means only speed while moving. It's like extra shots, with +1 movement speed you get to take a step with half the normal move energy.

I think I understand what you mean, though I don't think it's very clear from any description and no indication is apparent on the Character Information Screen.

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I had a longer break then installed 4.2.0. Here's, some experience from playing as dundan priest:
• I really like the new features. Runes, breathes, lava, new lights.
• There are (rare) bugs with some traps. I'm not sure exactly what happens, but I think it is when I step on a trap, the game crashes. When I start it again the trap is replaced with a wall block.
• Heavy weapons do much more damage than the light ones. Maybe it is specific to priests who get typically only one hit with any weapon at the beginning, and at some point quickly reach the maximum number of hits. The result is however when you find a decent lance, you can forget of daggers, swords until you start finding greater weapons. So many artifacts or ego weapons can't get any use.
• I found boots of Wormtongue. I'm not sure if it's allowed to post spoilers on the forum, so let me just just write that they have a rune that no other item has, and it doesn't seem to do anything (unless I miss something!...). I wonder if this is a bug.
• Even if I set to ignore every type of money, I can still see them with the detection abilities. Is it intentional?
• Newly added monsters (e.g. witches, trees, blackguards) miss sprites (I think the ones I used were 8x8)

[Thraalbee]

The new rune is trap immunity. Love it. But seems not to auto-id correctly on those boots

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Odd message, possibly a bug, or just strange syntax: "You remember hearing a roar. It yelps feebly." This in response to the spill of an Orb of Destruction on a monster just out of sight.