Does fighting seem to be off to anyone else?

[drunkendwarf]

I've seen these posts before...but seriously..

These are things I can usually beat the snot out of to the point I can fight them bare handed without much issue. Things I've killed in two hits before. And now they're doing some respectable damage to me while I'm wielding my best weapon type and using a shield. And it's now happened multiple times. I don't believe my character has aged, when I stat I'm still in the 'adult' category. My encumbrance is the same. I'm not riding a mount. Nothing that I can think of should be changing my fighting skills so drastically.

Has there either been a change to the fighting code, or are critters being much more randomized these days? Or is something else going on?

[mansa]

Are you:

A) Encumbered more?

B) Drunk?

C) Forgetting to wield the weapon?

[FantasyWriter]

Fighting mounted where you were dismounting before?

[Cerelum]

Are you guys even reading the OP, he said he's the same Encumberance, he's not mounted.

But the other points are valid, you drunk?  Spiced? Under a magickal Affect?

Is your armor damaged? Causing you to get hurt a shitton worse cause it's not protecting as much?

other than that, I would say send an e-mail to Morgenes@armageddon.org

JaRoD

[FantasyWriter]

Oops.

[drunkendwarf]

Are you:

A) Encumbered more?

B) Drunk?

C) Forgetting to wield the weapon?

No.
No.
And no.
No magickal affects. No spice. Literally nothing has changed that I can perceive.

[Yokunama]

I am having the same issue the original poster is having.

[Kane007]

My PC was killed just today by (something somewhere) that I know I could kill, I killed one just hours before. So either this (something) was a super hero or I dont know what happen, I just ended up dead

[Kassindra]

I thought it was just me. I killed a creature, attacked another of that same kind hours later (It was a few IC days later) and I had to refer to it as being super beast, and while I didn't die, it was ridiculously more difficult for me to kill than just a few hours previous and took me down more than half my HP.

[Morrolan]

Just as there is variation in PCs, there is variation in NPCs.

This may or may not account for what you are experiencing.

Best of luck, and if you think you have a bug, the request tool if probably a good option.

Morrolan

[Is Friday]

Err, you shouldn't ever be posting that your character has died.

OP: E-mail the mud inquiring if your skills have been modified on accident. It happens.

[Yokunama]

Best of luck, and if you think you have a bug, the request tool if probably a good option.

Morrolan

You bug things in the game.

When a character with 100 days gets beat by another character with only a few hours on it, something is seriously out of order here.

[Qzzrbl]

The tregils and vestrics are tired of the oppression and being thought of as "newbie" wildlife.

Warriors are being trained among their ranks....

The End is near.

[Lakota]

I attribute it to the defense nerf. If rangers get a bonus against fighting animals, I sure haven't seen it. Melee has become obsolete to me. I prefer other methods.

[Cerelum]

I suggest that you folks who are having the issues, to e-mail Morganes.  He seems to be very good at confirming if something is fucked up or it's just you having bad rolls.

BTW, for those of you who don't know, each combat round is just dice rolling in the background, when you suck it might take a 17 out of 20 to hit.  When you're good it might take 10/20 to hit.  But there are still those times when you'll just roll 1's and miss or get demolished by that scrab.

JaRoD

[Lakota]

We know. We're just commenting that it seems to be worse than usual.

[drunkendwarf]

Far worse than usual. To the point that there's no possible way it's just me 'having bad rolls'.
I realize combat is just 'die' rolling, but as in any gaming system there gets to be a point that you're going to smack the shit out of something regardless of what your die roll is. I have achieved that point against many critters. Multiple times now, this hasn't been the case. And it hasn't been the case to a disturbing degree. I'm aware that critters vary in their difficulty, from critter to critter of the same type. But I'm saying in my fifteen or so years of playing this mud, I haven't come across this degree of variance. Ever.

A 30+ day warrior should not be hit for 40 hps against a gortok while using his best weapon and a shield, when said warrior can normally kill a gortok bare handed without much difficulty. And things such as this have happened multiple times now, to the point my character has almost died.

It sounds like other people are having the same issues. I was just wanting some confirmation from others, and I've gotten it. If any imms care to pipe up if anything has changed with the combat system/the random loading of stats for npcs/etc that'd be great. I'll be dropping a note to Morgenes as well, as suggested. Something is seriously fucked here.

[Vanth]

Code changes don't generally go live, er...live.  If this is happening on the same reboot, it's probably not a code change.  However, the suggestion to email Morgenes is a good one.

[Dalmeth]

When a character with 100 days gets beat by another character with only a few hours on it, something is seriously out of order here.

This, and I've been taking more damage in general where I didn't before.  This just happened over the past few weeks.

[Synthesis]

It could be that some magicker is going around buffing mobs, lol.

FIND OUT IC.

[Zoan]

It's you, isn't it. You just dobbed yourself in!

[Cerelum]

It could be that some magicker is going around buffing mobs, lol.

FIND OUT IC.

Jarod watches as Synthesis saps a gortok from behind, knocking out it.

Synthesis pulls a bone and glass syringe from his pocket that's labelled "Steriods".

Synthesis injects the mangy gortok with the syringe and begins to snicker loudly as he walks away.

[Delstro]

Some NPCs are more experienced, or mature, than others of the same species.
All yellow gith are not equal.

[Yokunama]

Has anyone else noticed the -very- long, dramatic pauses between rounds of combat at times?

[Lakota]

Some NPCs are more experienced, or mature, than others of the same species.
All yellow gith are not equal.

We know, we know.

Also, what are "steriods"?