Current master post-4.2.2

[Ingwe Ingweron]

It is also worth noting here that rephial is no longer updating. Both nightly builds and official releases should be downloaded from the release page; they will also be available on angband.live. There will possibly be some more changes to Angband web presence coming some time (sorry for the vagueness).

Maybe you could ask Pav to change the link on the "About" page on the forum so that it points to the angband release page instead of rephial.

[fruviad]

More site-related than 4.2.2-related, but...

The "release page" hyperlink for 4.2.2 is mis-coded in the News ticker on the angband.oook.cz page. Look at the "Angband 4.2.2 released" announcement...the HTML has an extra pair of quotes, breaking the link to the page.

[will_asher]

I recently discovered the [tab] command to fire default ammo at the nearest target and I've been using it (while testing my variant). Seems to me that if you already have a target chosen that it should use the chosen target instead of the nearest monster.

[Pete Mack]

@wobbly--
The mean is the same for 1d4*3 and 3d4. But the variance is a whole lot higher.

[wobbly]

Is that enough to get from 3d4 damage to somewhere near 30? I didn't get "good hit" messages when I killed Bullroarer.
Not that I really want to complain. It is a fun exploit while it lasts.

So if I'm reading this right, it's not actually 3d4. Its 1d4 x 3 (explode).

/* Direct adjustment for exploding things (flasks of oil) */
	if (of_has(obj->flags, OF_EXPLODE))
		result.dmg *= 3;

then x 3.66 (throwing).

dmg *= 2 + missile->weight / 12;

so it'll actually do 33+ 50% of the time and that's without criticals.

[Pete Mack]

Is that enough to get from 3d4 damage to somewhere near 30? I didn't get "good hit" messages when I killed Bullroarer.
Not that I really want to complain. It is a fun exploit while it lasts.

[wobbly]

Is rune id working properly for rnether? Pretty sure I got nether bolted by a necromancer and the rune didn't id

[wobbly]

Oil flasks are 2lbs with the throwing tag. From memory thats about 3.2x old damage?

[will_asher]

Not just luck.

I picked a gnome ranger (4.2.2 angband.live) and the starting shops didn't offer any affordable weapon. My only offense was getting 40 flasks of oil and.. they one-shot everything in the first level. Instakilled cutpurses and soldiers. I've used these before and they were not this powerful. This breaks the early game and needs to be checked for the next version. Edit: or raise the price of oil dramatically

<fills gas tank and gas can in anticipation of high prices.>

[Sphara]

Not just luck.

I picked a gnome ranger (4.2.2 angband.live) and the starting shops didn't offer any affordable weapon. My only offense was getting 40 flasks of oil and.. they one-shot everything in the first level. Instakilled cutpurses and soldiers. I've used these before and they were not this powerful. This breaks the early game and needs to be checked for the next version. Edit: or raise the price of oil dramatically

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Something is hinky with flasks of oil. My new blackguard just killed Bullroarer (60HP) with 2(!) of them, frightening him on the first shot.

Wow, that's some pretty lucky throws, or very good Molatov cocktails!

[Pete Mack]

Something is hinky with flasks of oil. My new blackguard just killed Bullroarer (60HP) with 2(!) of them, frightening him on the first shot.

[Pete Mack]

Lore (knowledge menu) for weapons should show something like this on the first line:

a Bkade of Chaos  (6d5)            17lbs

[Pete Mack]

This might be a feature.

Riiight. I actually think lack of specificity for the Three Elven Rings is a bigger mistake. There just aren't going to be many unknown rings by the time those show up, so a little anticipation is a good thing.

[Nick]

Plain gold ring doesn't show up in knowledge menu among unknown rings.
(Neither do sapphire, adamant, serpentine, and ruby, grrr.)

This might be a feature.