Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Selklubber
Jul 11, 2010
After exiting the travel menu I discovered I had cloned myself. When I chopped off my clone's arm I lost an arm.

e: The clone is always on the tile I am on, and it's set as an ally.

Selklubber fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jul 8, 2014

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

scamtank
Feb 24, 2011

my desire to just be a FUCKING IDIOT all day long is rapidly overtaking my ability to FUNCTION

i suspect that means i'm MENTALLY ILL


There's a big stack of new combat announcements, a good bit of them describing very specific wounds.


is smashed into the body, an unrecognizable mass!
splits in gore!
collapses!
is ripped into loose shreds!
is torn apart!
and it is mostly cut away from the rest of the torso!
is cloven asunder!
explodes into gore!
collapses into a lump of gore!
is crushed!


I got the second one pinching a man's throat and I recall heads exploding into gore from blunt impacts, but the rest are still a bit of a mystery.

AXE COP
Apr 16, 2010

i always feel like

somebody's watching me
I've had cloven asunder but I can't remember when exactly. Something like when I was slashing somebody's torso.

Splits into gore also happens when you gouge eyes.

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010
I generated a new world and there's a big island in the southwest corner of the map that is completely loving covered in dozens of towers. And then there are no more towers anywhere else in the world.

Time to found a fort on Zombie Island.

e: And then another island that is completely covered by a giant elven forest retreat megalopolis, like this weird combination of urban sprawl and a hippie commune.

Mister Bates fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Jul 9, 2014

Tiler Kiwi
Feb 26, 2011
Using a mace gets you a lot of those new combat commands. Its pretty much gibbing the part in question, causing instant death if its something important.

Oddly enough you can crush someones neck into gore and they're left pretty okay for the most part.

Belasarius
Feb 27, 2002
any improvements to things like pathfinding that would actually make me want to play this game again?

Flame112
Apr 21, 2011

Belasarius posted:

any improvements to things like pathfinding that would actually make me want to play this game again?

Well, from what I've heard, your dwarves can pathfind into but not out of large trees now.

TasmanianX
Jan 7, 2009

Just Kick 'Em
Undead make dwarves run screaming now. RIP fort.

Hostile A.I. is borked in fortress mode, too. Are too passive and only attack when triggered. I'm somehow surprised that slipped through.

TasmanianX fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jul 9, 2014

GreenMarine
Apr 25, 2009

Switchblade Switcharoo
We'll need to start building chambers to train the Discipline stat. If simple things like exposure to gore trains it, you could make a blood-room and lock dwarves in until their hearts are hardened and their minds are numb. Then maybe have a murder-porn room where dwarven children are forced to watch their parents eviscerate kittens and goblins. When the armies of the shambling dead arrive they will be met by the equally cold and lifeless eyes of our girded legions standing fast upon the ramparts.

Perhaps placing the butchery in a very public place would be sufficient.

tinkerttoy
Dec 30, 2013

by XyloJW
These combat UI improvements in Adventure mode are making me very happy, specifically how the enemies available for attack flash their letter.

Triskelli
Sep 27, 2011

I AM A SKELETON
WITH VERY HIGH
STANDARDS


Started as a dwarven adventurer, all the clothes in the fortress are listed as "large" Why are dwarfs making clothes that don't fit themselves? :argh:

scamtank
Feb 24, 2011

my desire to just be a FUCKING IDIOT all day long is rapidly overtaking my ability to FUNCTION

i suspect that means i'm MENTALLY ILL


Triskelli posted:

Started as a dwarven adventurer, all the clothes in the fortress are listed as "large" Why are dwarfs making clothes that don't fit themselves? :argh:

Don't sweat it, that's already in the bug tracker.

The Droid
Jun 11, 2012

So I managed to play one adventurer but then my game crashed when loading the dates every time I tried again, on every world I'd gen, on every version of 40.01 I tried.

GreenMarine
Apr 25, 2009

Switchblade Switcharoo

The Droid posted:

So I managed to play one adventurer but then my game crashed when loading the dates every time I tried again, on every world I'd gen, on every version of 40.01 I tried.

Same happened to me. The history / calendar update crashing from some corruption or bad event seems really common.

Ignimbrite
Jan 5, 2010

BALLS BALLS BALLS
Dinosaur Gum
My game crashes halfway through the intro movie, but works if I skip it :allears:

Also, I have a Gray Demon in my dead/missing list. I haven't even punch through the caverns yet. I don't know if I will because I don't know if there's aquifer on this site.

e: also:

Ignimbrite fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jul 9, 2014

LostCosmonaut
Feb 15, 2014

So, is anyone else having flocks of giant sparrows explode themselves on trees? I kept getting these weird patches of blood on the ground, and couldn't figure them out until I looked at combat reports.

Locus
Feb 28, 2004

But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won.
It's been a while since I played, how do you see a full conversation in Adventure Mode again? Like, read back on the things people just said?


P.S. shout out to the fellow ardent worshippers of Gathre The Combat of Roaring, the goddess of revenge. Now I just gotta find something to get revenge about!

Locus fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jul 9, 2014

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010
Rolled up an adventurer, found and recruited a human crossbowman in an otherwise empty dwarven fortress, found a labyrinth. My crossbow ally didn't follow me in and instead decided to go slaughter a flock of buzzards. The minotaur saw me and immediately ran away, dropped the giant pillar it was using as a weapon, fell over, then sat there helplessly while I exploded its head with a single swing of my warhammer. Then I tried talking to a nearby camel and the game crashed.

GOTY.

necrotic
Aug 2, 2005
I owe my brother big time for this!

Flame112 posted:

Well, from what I've heard, your dwarves can pathfind into but not out of large trees now.

Nah, they'll leave. It may involve falling out of the tree most of the time, though.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug
So if you mine through a trees roots the entire tree just freaking vanishes. Well that's...interesting.

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013
I have to say, I really like the new race sites. Hill-dwarves can actually build hill-stockpiles and hill-castles, I find it really neat.

skasion
Feb 13, 2012

Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Locus posted:

It's been a while since I played, how do you see a full conversation in Adventure Mode again? Like, read back on the things people just said?


P.S. shout out to the fellow ardent worshippers of Gathre The Combat of Roaring, the goddess of revenge. Now I just gotta find something to get revenge about!

a shows announcements, including all dialogue.

pepito sanchez
Apr 3, 2004
I'm not mexican
I really want to play adventurer mode but it freezes upon choosing that game. At "updating world" screen with a calendar. Does this normally take a long rear end time?

edit: Ok, I see. It does every day of the year... This is my first time doing adventure mode. Excited to die or crash trying!

pepito sanchez fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Jul 9, 2014

Triskelli
Sep 27, 2011

I AM A SKELETON
WITH VERY HIGH
STANDARDS


necrotic posted:

Nah, they'll leave. It may involve falling out of the tree most of the time, though.



"It's my belief that these dwarves are laboring under the misapprehension that they're birds."

Triskelli fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Jul 9, 2014

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010
Marched into a bandit camp, immediately claimed it for myself and the Angry Armored Apes of Adventure, a group I just made up and which consisted entirely of me. Everyone seemed mostly okay with it. Attacked the warlord with my axe, missed, was promptly shot in the face and died.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

pepito sanchez posted:

I really want to play adventurer mode but it freezes upon choosing that game. At "updating world" screen with a calendar. Does this normally take a long rear end time?

edit: Ok, I see. It does every day of the year... This is my first time doing adventure mode. Excited to die or crash trying!

If you didnt make a small world, yes.

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

Hobolicious
Oct 7, 2012

The military might of a country represents its national strength. Only when it builds up its military might in every way can it develop into a thriving country.

Well that was sudden.

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012




Well.

Edit: The more i re-read this, the funnier it gets.

Scrree
Jan 16, 2008

the history of all dead generations,
Boogeymen are some serious poo poo in this game, also, no matter now much I eat and drink my hunger/thirst meter never go away, whats up with that?

PublicOpinion
Oct 21, 2010

Her style is new but the face is the same as it was so long ago...

Scrree posted:

Boogeymen are some serious poo poo in this game, also, no matter now much I eat and drink my hunger/thirst meter never go away, whats up with that?

I always just generate worlds without boogeymen.

Had a bit of an ED-209 moment: a wandering miscreant punched my traveling companion unconscious after a bit of "Yield!"-"No, YOU yield!" and then alternated between telling him to hand over his shield and beating him in the skull. After my buddy succumbed to his injuries, it was suddenly Too Real for the bandits and the fragility of life led to them wandering off.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

GreyPowerVan posted:

Well.

Edit: The more i re-read this, the funnier it gets.

"I must leave"

sum
Nov 15, 2010

Are there travelers on roads in fortress mode now? I really want to build a thunderdome.

xylo
Feb 21, 2007
<img src="https://forumimages.somethingawful.com/images/newbie.gif" border=0>



What kind of wagon parking job is this? This is not going to end well....

Zurai
Feb 13, 2012


Wait -- I haven't even voted in this game yet!

SynthOrange posted:

"I must leave"

Easily the best line in that.

Pigbuster
Sep 12, 2010

Fun Shoe

She doesn't really live up to her name.

Spanish Matlock
Sep 6, 2004

If you want to play the I-didn't-know-this-was-a-hippo-bar game with me, that's fine.

Zurai posted:

Easily the best line in that.

"Welp. Have a nice day. V:raise:V"

Locus
Feb 28, 2004

But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won.
This is amazing. Also very polite of you.


skasion posted:

a shows announcements, including all dialogue.

Thank you! Gonna see how far this guy gets tomorrow.


Cowhide waterskin.

Pryor on Fire
May 14, 2013

they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

Tried two forts and they both crashed before the first year was over. Generating a new world might help prevent that maybe? There's just like 5000 lines of

camp order missing parent -- army will camp forever

in my errorlog.txt, nothing else

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I sneaking around and am so stealthy that my victims arent noticing me hitting them in the head with my warhammer.

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply