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The T.o.M.E. Screenshots Gallery: Surprise! by Therem Harth


Message Recall (0-19 of 1869), Offset 0                                         
                                                                                
You have a superb feeling about this level.                                     
You enter a maze of up staircases.                                              
Looks like any other level.                                                     
You enter a maze of down staircases.                                            
Looks like any other level.                                                     
You tunnel into the granite wall. <14x>                                         
There is a grinding sound.                                                      
You tunnel into the granite wall. <17x>                                         
You were carrying in your quiver 18 Rounded Pebbles of Flame (1d2) (+13,+18) {90
In your quiver you have 29 Iron Shots of Valme (1d4) (+11,+17) {XDemon} ({).    
You have 28 Iron Shots of Valme (1d4) (+11,+17) {XDemon}.                       
The Iron Shot of Valme (1d4) (+11,+17) {XDemon} hits Gothmog, the High Captain o
It was a good hit!                                                              
Gothmog, the High Captain of Balrogs is destroyed.                              
You see a pile of 2 items. <3x>                                                 
Cannot open 'help.hlp'. <4x>                                                    
This is 50th Yavie of the 2890th year of the third age.                         
The time is 6:07 PM.                                                            
Take a Vampire out for dinner!                                                  
Cannot open 'help.hlp'. <3x>                                                    
                                                                                
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Surprise!
TFork 20101020, with the archery revamp... I was playtesting a hobbit slinger on Angband lvl 90, and Gothmog tunneled into view. He's pretty nasty IIRC, like to summon and I think he invokes darkness storms; but my hobbit had the Sling of Thain and a stack of XDemon artifact ammo. I gave Gothmog a welcoming shot and prepared for a long fight... But the first shot floored him. (The strange messages afterward, FWIW, are me trying to figure out how to take a screenshot.) I'm not sure if this is unbalanced or what. It IS how archers are supposed to work now, but one-shotting a unique like that seems a bit much to me.

Posted on 20.10.2010 23:44

Comments?

On 20.10.2010 23:46 Therem Harth wrote:
The more I think about it, the more this seems laughably overpowered. I'll have to figure out how to nerf it without changing archer gameplay too much. I have to say though, this hobbit archer has been more fun than most any other character I've run.

On 20.10.2010 23:48 Therem Harth wrote:
And on a completely non-ironic note, Gothmog dropped his own axe. I've never seen that happen before.

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