Fight without weapons

[Tasior]

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?

[Karyuu]

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 :}

[Cyl]

If you seriously plan to do combat without weapons, you should put an extensive ammount of points into "melee" skill...

[Zan]

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.

[Ren]

Yep Zen I'm having the same problem myself

[LigH]

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.

[Nilrem]

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.