Angband 4.2.2

[Nick]

@ arrived in a cavern level at DL 63 and received the message, "Teleportation is forbidden" upon attempting to teleport. @ is wearing nothing that is cursed. Is this a new feature of cavern levels? Or any levels? Is it randomly assigned or limited to caverns? Is it true of vaults on otherwise regular levels? Curious minds want to know if this is a new feature of 4.2.2 and what the parameters are.

See post 47 in this thread.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

See post 47 in this thread.

Cool! I missed that post. I liked the new challenge.

[Pete Mack]

All it takes is one Medusa or 9-headed Hydra to end your Ironman game. (Or is TO allowed?)

[jevansau]

My gripe with the gauntlet level is that they don't seem that rare. And of course there is no corresponding reward to the risk.

[Nick]

My gripe with the gauntlet level is that they don't seem that rare. And of course there is no corresponding reward to the risk.

They should be roughly 1 in 200 levels, and only deeper than level 20.

Point taken on the rewards.

[will_asher]

Found another bug: unable to target monsters who are standing on rubble.
EDIT: weird... sometimes I can and sometimes I can't. Not sure what makes the difference.

[PowerWyrm]

Found another bug: unable to target monsters who are standing on rubble.
EDIT: weird... sometimes I can and sometimes I can't. Not sure what makes the difference.

Passable vs unpassable rubble?

[will_asher]

It was an orc, so he wouldn't be standing on impassable rubble.

(I think you should be able to target monsters in a wall too, but that's another thing)

[wobbly]

There seems to be a bug with lighting. I'm wielding forasgil (+1 light) but don't have a light radius without a torch.

Edit: ok, I can still see my own square, e.g. cast and read scrolls

[wobbly]

The changes that stop item landing on webs is causing arrows to boomerang.

[Sphara]

Necromancer 4.2.2 on angband.live:
Warg Form spell description doesn't mention you getting two bonus attacks. Just that you gain a form of a warg and get Berserk status with cost of some HP.

Don't know if this is intentional or not, but the extra attacks are invariably the reason to cast this spell.

[Nick]

Thanks everyone for all the commentary, bug reports etc on 4.2.2. They are not being ignored.

[Bogatyr]

So I just got to a game-winning clvl 40 gnome mage in 4.2.2 before dying in a major vault on DL 74 (Narya, Soulkeeper, Ingwe, Rohirrim, RoS+10, RoS+9, the list goes on), and about 20 uniques, the unique vortex got me, never saw him coming. Decided my Narya and RoS+10 left me with too few HP so I swapped in Calris. Duh. Decided I didn't really want all the not-yet-TO'd guys waking up, so took off Calris. But then my HP were low *and* I had woken up some things, obviously wasn't aware of 'v' waking up, though. First gnome mage death in many years, winning's become quite easy with stealthy mages. Pissed me off, because I'd just found Narya and was preparing to go unique Balrog hunting (Smaug was there, too).

My take on 4.2.2 is that it's OK for mages. But recharge / tap have been swung so heavily in the nerfed direction after the "free infinite mana" excesses of 4.2.0 that they've become unusable. Recharge backfires way too frequently and at lower charge counts, so building up a decent stack of charges to tap later is nigh on impossible. I found myself basically never using Tap, and just reaching for !Restore Mana every time. So I'd say: ease up on the charge limits a bit, and backfire a bit less frequently. It was fun to have another means to gain mana back, now that's gone.

[Pete Mack]

You never see the unique 'v' coming as it never moves. You may want to change its color, as the pale violet is hard to notice. I recommend editing monster.txt to give it the SHIMMER flag.

[Pete Mack]

Also: the way to get a lot of charges is to drop identical items on the ground and recharge them individually. A stack of 7 STM will hold something like 90 charges after this.