Archived from groups: rec.games.roguelike.misc (
More info?)
"Vlad" <vlad@nospam.Invalid> wrote in message
news:rt4on09gngt721siiocuafu1ostohf8ro8@4ax.com...
> Vlad wrote:
>
>> This new (for v2.4) type of monster, the Slywert, starts popping up
>> there and I can't get past them.
>> Apparently you can't hit them, and though they don't inflict much
>> damage either, the accumulated damage will kill you in the end.
>
>> Nothing in my pack (which usually isn't much yet, in the second game
>> screen) seemed to affect them in any way whatsoever.
>
> Strange: this seems to be dependent of the character class you're in.
>
> As a Viking (which I usually picked as starting character, until my
> hit points were up a bit) they're plain impassable.
>
I'm not sure of what you're using, but they are definitely killable by
smacking them around with a big weapon.
> Now I began one game as a Sage: they started appearing later, in
> *much* smaller numbers (I only saw four of them plus one 'holographic
> double'),
The holographic double is a spell effect. That wasn't a slywert.
> they were slower, and a wand of fire killed them in one or
> two blasts.
Wands are very powerful. They also bounce, so be careful.
> Wielded weapons still don't seem to be able to hit them, but I managed
> to kill two slywerts (lined up) with a single wand blast.
>
> As a Viking, any wands I tried in several games always missed them.
>
That's really weird. I've not noticed wands being more or less effective
because of class, and definitely not noticed slywerts giving me much
trouble.
>
> Playing the Sage game also reminded me of something else: in the
> Viking games, I hadn't seen a single Lacunar. In the Sage game there
> were plenty, almost as if all Lacunars were replaced by Slywerts
> before (or killed by them).
>
The amount of Lacunar in the forests are completely random. Sometimes you
even get a screen full of orcs, like an orc camp. It's all up to the RNG.
--
Glen
L
![:p :p]()
yt E+++ T-- R+ P+++ D+ G+ F:*band !RL RLA-
W:AF Q+++ AI++ GFX++ SFX-- RN++++ PO--- !Hp Re-- S+