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The Hurricane
Tempered Warlord
Joined: 01 Jun 2002
Posts: 299
Location: The Sword Coast |
quote:
Originally posted by RedTiger
Yeah... Iron Man mode has got to be pretty intense in a game like this. I'll probably have to hold off on tackling that for awhile though.
I doubt I'll ever beat it...I mean survive long enough to face the balor and he might hack 3 of your level 7-10 guys. How would you ever level that high again? Oh, and what if you had to run...what's 3 level 1s' going to do against a balor?...what's 300 level 1's going to do? I hope ToEE keeps tally of all the slain characters...."this poor soul got smashed by a hill giant" That'd be great. 
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Thu Sep 11, 2003 5:58 pm |
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Seth
Last Man Standing
Joined: 23 Jan 2002
Posts: 1008
Location: Faerun |
Well people I picked this up from the responses of the developers on different forums. It might just help some of us to plan the attacks better, even in Iron Guy mode
Combat tactics:
holding down the ALT key in combat will put your current character into "waypoint" mode, where every left-click will lay down a waypoint, and right- click will reset all your waypoints.
while holding down ALT, all enemy threat ranges will be highlighted, and if your current movement path incurs any possible AOO's.
you can end waypoint mode by right-clicking, or double clicking your last waypoint (at which point it will then initiate the movement). also, clicking on an enemy will initiate a standard attack at the end of your path (if possible).
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Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:12 pm |
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RedTiger
Village Leader
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Posts: 93
Location: Center of Chaos |
Yay for waypoints! That was one of my most used features when playing Arcanum. Sounds like Troika has improved on it for this game. Is that going to apply to the town and world maps as well? I know I'll be finding out soon, but just curious now. |
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Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:33 pm |
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Remus
Overgrown Cat
Joined: 03 Jul 2002
Posts: 1657
Location: Fish bowl |
Pretty advanced control scheme there. It add the depth to combat strategy and execution. |
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Fri Sep 12, 2003 2:59 am |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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If they pull it off it will be a thing of beauty to see attacks of opportunity, THE defining tactical consideration of 3rd edition, implemented in a computer game.
It will also be great to see the look on the publishers of Ruins of Myth Drannors faces because they said it couldn't be done properly in a turn based game so they left it out. Then again they're also the ones that gave clerics spontaneous casting and made all wizards sorcerers because they thought memorizing spells wouldn't work well with their engine and a D&D computer game.
Uh. Yeah. Played ANY of the other 15+ titles there, boys?
TOEE seems very ambitious in its desire to port the game rules in as much as possible. Even more so than NEverwinter Nights, which I thought was a fantastic translation... in fact, I said I couldn't imagine a better translation ever being done.
Hmm. Temple might make me eat my words... but if it does, I'll be certain to say so in the review...
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Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:20 pm |
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Seth
Last Man Standing
Joined: 23 Jan 2002
Posts: 1008
Location: Faerun |
Ok, this is description one of the screenshot from “to the game” by one of the developers. That is something.
wow whip! where did u pick up this screenie? this is part of the batch i made last week, but i didn't know they had been put up yet. cool deal!
yes, the Skeleton Gnolls are commanded by my Eeeeeevil dwarven cleric!
let me try to narrate what's happening:
Meleny, the highlighted NPC, has just hurled a Produce Flame at one of the bugbears that is webbed. I was unable to snap a screenshot in time, but that set the whole Web on fire, burning those trapped.
the "action bar" is only at yellow right now, signifying that Meleny has just used a standard action (the green portion of the bar) to cast Produce Flame and used the free touch attack to throw the flame at a bugbear.
the PC's currently have at least Bless and Prayer active. the large character currently has Enlarge and probably Bull's Strength active, and also is flatfooted (seen by the "boot" on top of her portrait, she is the left-most along the bottom). along that note, Meleny is currently under Medium Encumbrance (the "bell" looking icon on her portrait, second from the bottom right).
conversely, the Prayer has negatively affected the bugbears. a few of the bugbears may have Barbarian Raged and/or used a Potion of Bull's Strength (that actually happens later in the combat, IIRC).
i initiated combat with the bugbears and the high priest on the far right manually, even though i was currently working on a mission for the high priest; i figured this area might make for some good combat screenshots.
are the rest of my screenies up somewhere? i'm kinda curious, even though i have all of them sitting right here on my hard drive, heh.
hope that was informative!
[edit]: oh yes, that is my monk in the bottom right corner - you can't really see it, but he is in a monk stance; i think i took a few screenies of him kicking and punching and doing twirling kicks. it's hard to show with screenshots though :/
the monk's critical hit anim is pretty sweet, i haven't gotten a critical with my monk, but i've seen others' do it!
my gnome wizard currently has Mirror Image cast upon her; she's right next to Meleny. it's hard to see the ghostly images in this shot, but i took at least 1 or 2 more that more clearly shows the images
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Sat Sep 13, 2003 3:47 am |
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The Hurricane
Tempered Warlord
Joined: 01 Jun 2002
Posts: 299
Location: The Sword Coast |
-Seth
Nice screen, I didn't know you could enlarge your characters or set entire webs on fire....that's too cool
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Sat Sep 13, 2003 4:03 am |
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Seth
Last Man Standing
Joined: 23 Jan 2002
Posts: 1008
Location: Faerun |
And in 5 days we can play!
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Sat Sep 13, 2003 4:16 am |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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Some of you, anyways. 
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