Two handed copper swords

Nov 11, 2017, 10:28 am
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This is probably just my subjective preference, but it feels like goblins and kobolds got a LOT more dangerous with their new two handed copper swords. I picked up an arcanite chain mail in UT 3 right after killing Genetrix, and suddenly two goblins with +5 enchanted two handed copper swords spawned and decimated me with two hits. This happens often even with unenchanted ones. It feels a bit unbalanced, but it might be intended to just be harder?
Nov 11, 2017, 11:44 am
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How are they strong enough to wield 2-h copper swords??
Nov 11, 2017, 1:46 pm
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They usually wield short swords don't they?
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Nov 11, 2017, 5:07 pm
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I'm probably wrong about the kobolds, I've died so many times I'm getting exhausted
This time i put on a bronze plate mail because i knew there was a goblin berserker on the level. Tried to take him on and this was the result.
Nov 11, 2017, 7:26 pm
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I'm seeing a lot of this too. This was a pretty lucky character, he found the Gorovits family scimitar and then came across some bones. But two handed sword +5 seems a little disproportionate to my danger level.
Nov 12, 2017, 12:00 pm
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I've also noticed this. Goblin Berserkers in UT with two-handed swords - copper or no - are extremely dangerous.
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Nov 12, 2017, 3:14 pm
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Goblins shouldn't spawn in UT in the first place!
System would indicate in graphic if person is mounted on horse or not.
Same system also show if person mounted on boar, elephant, polar bear etc.
Or if person mounted on ass.
Ivan find mounting on ass funny.
Nov 12, 2017, 3:26 pm
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Yeah, that sounds more like a fluke in spawning. We already had kobolds with -8 spears, now we have goblins with +5 swords.
Nov 13, 2017, 8:37 am
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Humanoids are a lot more deadly much earlier now. also undead are significantly more dangerous now as well.
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Nov 18, 2017, 8:14 am
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I suggest that after a goblin, or other small humanoid attacks using a large weapon(two-handed sword, two-handed scimitar), they would need a turn to raise the weapon back up, to them attack again, since they need to use all their strength to fight with such heavy weapons.
Nov 23, 2017, 12:58 am
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I found where the change was caused all this: https://github.com/Attnam/ivan/commit/586ecc0322967034c63844...

It seems like a bit of exuberance on red's part
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its been so long since i had gotten that far i didnt think it through. arrrr!!!!!!
Nov 23, 2017, 3:34 am
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Yup, that was me.

However, this change was done in good faith - goblins are usually found in GC, where they are unremarkable and rather weak monsters. I wanted to make goblin berserkers a bit more interesting. With their sub par Dex, they still cannot hit that often, but can at least occasionally damage the player now (in GC, that is). They also have rather low HP, so they die easily if you can hit them.

What I didn't know was that goblin berserkers will suddenly start to spawn in UT. I have hardly ever seen a normal goblin there before! There, they are a bit hardcore, yes. (Why are they spawning there? The weaker goblins are not!)

I still think berserkers work better now than before, because they are now a monster you have to take into account when playing instead of just squashing them. They are OK for GC, and even though they should not spawn in UT, they are still rather survivable there, with some planning, luck or use of resources (zap a wand, pray or throw items at them and they are not that bad).

Granted, I like my IVAN hardcore.

When they have +5 2H swords, that's just unfair, but I don't think that's on me.
Nov 23, 2017, 3:59 pm
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This one I'm sure i didn't deserve! Haven't anything of notability except for maybe the gauntlets of strength +2. Still a berserker with a +5 copper sword...
Nov 23, 2017, 5:25 pm
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The reason goblin berzerkers are appearing early is because IgnoreDanger is set to true. Everywhere IgnoreDanger is used, an HP and Day requirement for generation needs to be specified. You'll notice that low hp creatures like floating eyes etc, use this feature because they wouldn't have enough stats to generate normally by the danger system. Check out proto.cpp for more details.
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its been so long since i had gotten that far i didnt think it through. arrrr!!!!!!
Nov 23, 2017, 6:29 pm
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Oh. I'm sorry, I broke our release.
Nov 23, 2017, 7:10 pm
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red_kangaroo wrote
Oh. I'm sorry, I broke our release.

It's cool, I didn't pick it up before, and I didn't properly realise the significance of the IgnoreDanger flag till now. We can always switch it back, ready for next release.
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Nov 23, 2017, 7:20 pm
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Ah nice, I bet setting IgnoreDanger to true for skeleton puppies would help them spawn more often too
Nov 23, 2017, 9:30 pm
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capristo wrote
Ah nice, I bet setting IgnoreDanger to true for skeleton puppies would help them spawn more often too

You could try going into wizmode and press * and print the character danger values. If its danger value is similar to other characters in the catacombs then it will spawn when expected.
When I did this I noticed the danger values for various undead configurations were all over the place, probably the reason those powerful zombies keep appearing...
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its been so long since i had gotten that far i didnt think it through. arrrr!!!!!!
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