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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:07 pm
by Boris
Doh!

What does "cheese" mean? Presume it's not merely a reference to coagulated dairy products...?

Also, what does "IIRC" indicate? Guess I'm too old to understand all this modern techno-speak...

BTW, am wondering if the Lich-rules have changed in ToB - realised after previous post that my recent Vangoethe experience was post-SoA (so is irrelevent, am posting in wrong forum, etc.)
'Course, I might be confusing a Mantle expiring with coincidental Breaching, but was sure M. had disrupted a few previously-healthy undead wizards... Can the MoD penetrate such "armours"?

B.

P.S. Where does the word "buff" come from? I presume from the context that it means "cast Protection spells", but have no idea why & am quite curious...

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:34 pm
by fable
IIRC= If I recall correctly.

Cheese=misuse of loopholes in the game engine. It's technically not a cheat, since you aren't introducing elements to the game that aren't already there. You're just abusing things that the developers either forgot about, or couldn't rectify. ;)

Lich rules haven't changed, but some of the artifacts you acquired in SoA will have been patched and changed when ToA is installed.

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 12:42 am
by UserUnfriendly
Re: Doh!
Originally posted by Boris
What does "cheese" mean? Presume it's not merely a reference to coagulated dairy products...?

Also, what does "IIRC" indicate? Guess I'm too old to understand all this modern techno-speak...

BTW, am wondering if the Lich-rules have changed in ToB - realised after previous post that my recent Vangoethe experience was post-SoA (so is irrelevent, am posting in wrong forum, etc.)
'Course, I might be confusing a Mantle expiring with coincidental Breaching, but was sure M. had disrupted a few previously-healthy undead wizards... Can the MoD penetrate such "armours"?

B.

P.S. Where does the word "buff" come from? I presume from the context that it means "cast Protection spells", but have no idea why & am quite curious...


the mace of disruption is a +2 weapon, but it ACTS as a +5 weapon against undead...if a lich had only mantle cast as protection, then the mace will go right thru, since i think mantle will only protect up to +3 or +4 weapons...and the mace acts like a +5 weapon against undead...only absolute immunity will protect the lich, or protection from magic weapons...

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:53 am
by Littiz
:eek: You can install only parts of a Weidu mod? :eek:

When a mod has more than a component, yes. Coder's choice, of course. :p You should get all the possible options when you start the setup.
so littiz, have you been trying out battles? I've heard a lot of good things about battles, and i was thinking of finally field testing out my kensai sorc cleric hack...

So far I only tried a couple of components, as I was already near the end of SoA.
*MINOR SPOILERS*
Sometimes enemies cheat too much (Lord Roenall can't die till the end of the battle...). This happens even for Improved Sarevok in Hell, but he's a spirit so it's fine. This one was a very very fun battle.

I also checked the code of the final battle in the Illithid's Lair (the one with the Master Brain). It's adjusted basing on your difficulty's setting, but all in all I was scared by simply reading it (consider that with Tactics installed the creatures involved are already *heavily* enhanced... AlhoonS included, if you get my meaning!!! :eek: )
Fitting! That place was too easy, while a Master Brain should be able to disintegrate an entire high level party in a single round...
After all there are alternative paths.

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 3:37 am
by UserUnfriendly
oh my...a definately fitting opponent for my ultimate creation, the kensai sorceror cleric druid....hehehhehehheh!!!!!!!!!!!