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Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: Tasior on July 07, 2006, 09:32:37 pm

Title: Fight without weapons
Post by: Tasior on July 07, 2006, 09:32:37 pm
I fight without weapon with rat but I don't do any damage to it. I heard that it is possible to kill monsters without weapons. What I do wrong?
Title: Re: Fight without weapons
Post by: Karyuu on July 07, 2006, 09:39:05 pm
A thread name in all caps is a bad idea - please avoid doing this in the future.

It's very likely that current problems with NPCs and combat is the cause of this. If you cannot fight any rat you have come upon, try to hang in there and wait for fixes to arrive :}
Title: Re: Fight without weapons
Post by: Cyl on July 07, 2006, 10:19:05 pm
If you seriously plan to do combat without weapons, you should put an extensive ammount of points into "melee" skill...
Title: Re: Fight without weapons
Post by: Zan on July 07, 2006, 10:39:57 pm
The problems the newbies are having is that without any skills they don't seem to be able to hit anything ... making it impossible to gain experience and making it impossible to train so they can fight.
Title: Re: Fight without weapons
Post by: Ren on July 07, 2006, 10:52:57 pm
Yep Zen I'm having the same problem myself
Title: Re: Fight without weapons
Post by: LigH on July 07, 2006, 10:54:24 pm
There is another possible reason:

The rat attacks first. The player changes to "full defensive" stance automatically. And can't switch to another stance immediately.

To switch the stance to e.g. "aggressive", the player needs to cancel the current attack, and start another, attacking the monster first before being attacked.
Title: Re: Fight without weapons
Post by: Nilrem on July 07, 2006, 11:01:52 pm
I think attack mode changes work fine now, Ligh.
At least it's reported as an stance change in the system tab.

On a sidenote, it's not only a problem of newly created chars.
It's a problem of not trained chars. Having 0 skill means you've no chances to hit the NPC.
With .14 version I had a char that was able to kill a rat, but with .15 it always fails, no matter what stance you use.