Delicious Vlish

I am the one that really pushed the Missile Guardian through his paces in G3. On TORMENT.

 

It works.

 

I can see a couple of flaws.

 

In short.

 

I ignored magic and used items instead.

 

I pumped my creations. I used every creation boosting item I could afford to use.

 

I hit hard and faded away. In short, don't wake up to much. Creep forward in combat mode, shoot somebody, and run away, leading them back to your creations, who will mop them up. A pack of Fyoras or Cryoras are wonderful. As are Roamers. You are a huntsman... You must have a strong pack.

 

Creations that use missile attacks and have strong melee are great. The idea is to burn the enemy down before they reach you. Step back as many steps as you can but still have enough action points to attack, and then unleash hell.

 

Every spare point must go in to dex or missile skill.

 

Grab every bit that you can, store every crystal, every little monster bit, and forge them in to items. Make wands of fire, icy crystals, submission wands, terror wands, etc, and use them wisely. Prepare your self for battle. Add some luck so items drop more often. Those little icy crystals start doing 60 or more damage quickly, and keep ramping up. Wands allow you to do just about as much damage as an Agent.

 

You can safely ignore adding any points to melee. By the end of the game, it will have more than you need.

 

Endurance isn't worth much. There are other means of boosting your hit points. Strength is good, but you don't need much. Store your excess weapons in caches. You WILL be stockpiling an obcene amount of weapons of mass distruction.

 

Batons are your bread and butter. While crystals are fine and wonderful, save them for harder battles. When you are just mopping up cannon fodder, any old venom or acid baton will do. When dealing with something a bit more dangerous, break out the submission baton. When dealing with anything that first initiates dialog with you and then tries to kill you, break out the reapers and just keep shooting till nothing moves.

 

If something gets in to melee range, you are probably doing something wrong. Do not do this. Do nothing wrong. Some times, it honestly can not be avoided. But most of the time, it can. I've said it once, and will say it again, hit hard and fade away. Once you have the enemy wanting to kill you, lead it away from the others and back to your pack. Fight on your own terms.

 

And I did it with and with out using canisters. In some ways, the canister free Guardian was better. He was mortal. He played through pure tactics and was a joy to play.

 

The canister crazy one on the other hand... At the end, he could just walk in to a room and start blowing stuff up with no real worry about the consequences. He was like the Terminator.

That would be dangerous, having an enemy that could unshape you. I mean, if canisters can make you better, it's a matter of learning to undo the genetic knowledge that the canisters impart.

 

Reverse Shaping.

 

Take an all powerful canister crazed character and just... Strip him (or her) down to nothing.

Well, we have tentacles! What do you expect us to do with them?

Well, except for those weirdo pervert submission vlish... They like to watch human appendage porn. Sickos.

Silly lesser life forms can not read.

 

I said that we Vlish would not take to kindly to being merged with a lesser life form.

 

That implies that the lesser life form is indeed human.

 

**Lifts tentacle in obcene gesture and gurgles something profane**

I find the idea of being merged with a lesser life form highly disagreeable.

In short, YUCK.

However, if it were female, it could be a one stop shop for all your tentacle porn needs. Hrm?

No, not that kind of bomb. They are little glass balls, and they turn in to a Drakon that fights with you for a short period of time.

 

Nasty.

You would think that a 20 foot tall Battle Alpha might bend over and help you carry stuff.

But no.

Bother.

No.

The ability to make creation bombs.

 

You know, those little globes that you get that POOF in to some big toothy monster to dispatch your enemies.

 

My Agents would pay dearly to have a couple of those little essence filled globes. Handy for escape. Or big fights.

Well, if Jeff didn't have to port his games to that crummy no good Windows OS, he could churn out Mac games so much faster. Instead of working on AVIV for Windows, he could have already started on G4. So we have to wait for OUR games and it is all the Windows users fault. Because Jeff is porting Avernum over, we have to just keep waiting and waiting. Which sucks. And blows. Etc.

 

This is not my forum section to moderate. But that keygen program had better not be for piracy.

Well, we can all be sure of one thing...

 

Geneforge IV will be using AIV human graphics.

 

Just have a feeling.

You leave me and my nipples out of this.

 

PERVERT!

The Great Slith Nipple-Quest.

 

 

Ladies and gentlemen, we are now witnessing board history in the making.

I keep thinking about it.

 

Teenage Drakon?

 

That has to be the most insipid mind numbing idea I have ever encountered.

 

Really.

 

"It's like, omigod, like, you know, I have to go out and change the world and stuff. Like, you know? But I got this pimple and my girlfriend dumped me because she said I was like, you know, some whiny emo loser. And I was like, so are like so totally like wrong and stuff. And it's like I have all this peer pressure and my body keeps changing and like my voice keeps cracking. Like, omigod and stuff. It's like so hard to be like a teenager right now. And I so gotta go and work my shift at the food court at the mall. It's like, life sucks you know. If only I could rebel and be different just like everybody else and stuff, and change the world. Omigod."

Thank you Jeff... Thank you so very much.

As cool as Drakons might be, if I start up G4 and see a Drakon as a playable race, I am going to quit the game and toss it in my desktop trashcan.

 

Wouldn't be much of a game. Unless of course the first area was populated by Reaper Turrents, and upper level hostile creations by the swarm.

 

That said, I do believe that if done properly, playing as some sort of rebel creation of some sort would be nice. Perhaps a hatchling Dryak. But even that might be iffy.

 

All things considered though, Dryaks can have their genes forged to become Drakons. And for this one reason alone, this is a bad idea.

I am glad it is Jeff making this game... And that is pretty much all I can say.

**Rubs tentacles together with glee**

 

I like the way you think.

**Head asplodes**

 

WEATHER!!!

 

I kept walking around the Isle of Spears and wishing and hoping for some snow flakes to fall.

It's a nice and welcomed update. Yay!

Sheesh. If I had seen bugs like that when I first played the game, I would have cheered.

 

The Starship trooper moments would have been bearable at least with some pleasant bugs to look at.

"Check out my teeth! They're shiny!" - Ambrose the Shareware Monkey.

So what sort of career will Ambrose the Shareware Monkey have in the future Jeff? Perhaps the villian in your future funny RPG?

 

He had such charisma with that grin.

I'm totally in for beta testing that game when it happens. I really do NEED a good humourous RPG.