Rupert

When telling Drayk Frost to go and kill Trajkov, Drayk Frost took Trajkov below his first health threshold, triggering his first combat dialogue as if you had attacked him. Following this, whilst Drayk Frost died quickly, a number of clawbugs run into the room and managed to kill Trajkov and his creations without them going hostile to me or me doing anything else. I'm guessing it might be a bug whereby the clawbugs would spawn if you were attacking Trajkov normally as reinforcements for him, but because he isn't hostile they're attacking Trajkov instead (whilst the clawbugs are attacking him, he'll go on to his second dialogue threshold which appears to be from if you were fighting him). On reloading and trying it again, the clawbugs do not appear to spawn if Drayk Frost don't take him below the first health threshold and I was able to reproduce the clawbugs appearing by reloading until he fell below the first health threshold.

Re: Central Labs, it seems that killing Vershinin alone is insufficient to clear the area - it didn't show green until Serabryakov was also dead.

I think you realistically need to be able to do both although heavy investment into your non-primary probably isn't necessary. Certainly at higher difficulty levels where enemies can leap to you, being able to melee for slightly higher damage can be helpful. On the flip side, there are areas where you cannot reasonably melee your way through (e.g. groups of turrets on Southbridge) even if you focus on it. It's probably also worth bearing in mind that some enemies do more damage from a distance than they do when you're at melee range (e.g. roamers), whereas some do more damage in melee (e.g. serviles).

That would be true and likely grounds for a reload (often the case when you're not using creations and most enemies will kill you in ~3 hits at most), but on the rare occasions I've seen a terror vlish attack, terrify hasn't proc'd as it seems that you get a base mental resistance of 75% in this game. Edit: managed to get through the Junkyard without being terrified once - was similarly easy. Did finally get hit by terrify for the first time in Barrens Research shortly afterwards though.

I'm having a relatively (completed the original a half dozen times or so but haven't been read any tips beyond max mechanics/leadership needed for this version) blind first playthrough on a melee Guardian without making any creations on torment difficulty. I've more or less cleared up to Kazg at this point. I'm finding that the difficulty of enemies so far has mostly been about what I'd expect, with the exception of vlish. For some reason they seem to spend about 90% of their turns blessing/cursing, even when they're already blessed/you're already cursed. This would be fine if they were in a mix of enemies, but when they're on their own, it makes them entirely trivial. Although the dip in difficulty when you first encounter them in Pentil Woods compared to the thahds and roamers you encounter before doesn't seem too jarring to begin with, the "stronger" ones underneath the woods don't end up being any more difficult, just taking a couple more hits. Similarly, when you get to the spectral vlish in the Buried Cells, it feels like they should be quite dangerous given that it takes several hits for me to kill them, but they did not attack at all. Not sure if anyone else has found this/if anyone else has any other thoughts with how it relates to other difficulty levels or general balance, but I do feel that if there's a v1.01, they could do with a slight tune up.

I never quite got around to finishing a couple of the Geneforge games, but I tended to feel that E/A2 were by far the longest in terms of the straight line between the start and end of the story. 1 comes a relatively close second (if only for sending you on scavenger hunts essentially when you were most of the way through the game already), but, in comparison, 3 enabled you to skip plagues that you didn't want to bother with and the story arcs of 4, 5 and 6 were appreciably shorter, even if there was still a lot of content there overall. The Geneforge games tended to sacrifice overall length for the sake of adding more replay content (i.e. different factions, distinct classes, etc.), kind of in a less extreme way than Nethergate - long if you consider playing the distinct sides and differences to their fullest extents, but short per play-through. In that respect though, the Geneforges generally did have the most diverse replay value. To take G1 as an example, depending on your choices, half the island might have been friendly or hostile and the game can play out very differently. You don't really get that kind of diversity with the other series, let alone the vast majority of games released full stop. On the other hand, it then gave me no end of confusion when Jeff started putting named NPCs into the game that were mandatory enemies with no dialogue/lead-up quests and I'm left wondering whether or not I should've killed them.

Ah, but are you a supporter of the People's Front of Judea or the Judean People's Front?

Originally Posted By: Tyranicus Originally Posted By: Rupert As much as I know that it probably isn't 100% compatible with certain modern OSs, I'd still love to see the original Exile trilogy on there. Probably? How about definitely. I don't know - had it working on Vista and Windows 7 (admittedly with some tweaking for the latter - although now I think of it, I wonder if it'd just run fine in DOSBox). I'd just bet a great deal that the same can't be said for Mac OSs.

As much as I know that it probably isn't 100% compatible with certain modern OSs, I'd still love to see the original Exile trilogy on there.

I think the obvious answer is that an apocalypse is unlikely, but given the state of world, may not really be a bad thing if it happened anyway.

Most of the older members got into the forum in their teens (as evidenced by the average amount of maturity back then). Even with newer members, because of the tone of the forum these days, it was always a fairly safe bet that most of the people here were going to be in their 20s.

Haven't got a clue about the second, but in answer to your first question, it's the female food seller in the NW of Formello.

Originally Posted By: Avadon Assuming that Spiderweb continues this Avadon and Avernum release tango, is it safe to say that we should see Avernum 6 in 2022, assuming Avadon has five sequels. In which case we could expect to see Avernum remade in 2023 with newer tech and expanded storylines. Please, no. As much as the games are fun and I'm sure it'd sell well, seeing a fourth incarnation of the series with exactly the same main plotlines and events would end up just a lil' dull for anyone who'd played through the first three (at least especially insofar as E/A1-3).

Can't say I've had to deal with anything like that lately, but as counter-intuitive as it might seem, if you genuinely don't think there's a peaceful way to defuse the situation (that does include handing over your wallet if the danger is disproportionate, but unlikely to occur if you do so) and you don't think you can outrun them, I tended to find that the most effective way of dealing with that kind of situation was to act mentally deranged and throw yourself at them (not literally). For the average mugger - most of who just think that looking threatening and maybe hitting you a couple of times will be all it takes - it's really rather unsettling to have someone turn around and try to beat you down, with seemingly no sense of self-preservation. Although if it ever comes to violence, however that's happened, it is generally worth bearing in mind that if you don't hurt them enough that they give up and run off, chances are they'll hurt you a whole lot more. Sometimes going at it with no sense of self-preservation is a better idea for your health than showing some restraint.

Ah, I used to love that game. Was one of the first games of that style I ever played, along with Monkey Island. I still remember from MI3, at the end where you can bring up how no-one ever remembers Bobbin Threadbare. It really is a shame that you don't get the same kind of point 'n' clicks as you did back then. I really miss some of those games, like The Dig, the Gabriel Knight, Simon the Sorceror and Broken Sword series and their ilk. Unfortunately these days, it seems the closest you get from anything approaching the mainstream is the occasional Sam and Max game.