Dungeon Master Forum

Sorry, but I cannot agree . When I approached to the monster from the back, it very ofter turned around very quickly. 100% that 180dgrs turn didn't last so long so two monster moves would.

It was implemented similar way in DM. I remeber as I hit the monster, ran around it to its back and next moment monster turnes 180 degrees and attacked me. I think this behaviour is far more real than one turn in time, because this makes monsters toooo slow. I know this solvers problems with "d...

> OK, knights all dropped. Go down - hey! They're still alive! > I though a damage tile was added to kill them as per FTL! I think they was killed in RTC because of monster species limit pre level... > Up to Mummies alcove. Hmmm - they're mostly gone. Ahh, > they escaped down the hidden passage. I d...

I am surpriced with monster behaviour. I reached level 4 and I met the wasp. It soooo slow. Also fighting worms is pretty easy, because it seems that monster turn takes the same time as step. I use tactics "hit and step away" and step aside the monster (I like rooms for this fighting becau...

When character gains a new level, eye icon border became green and increased actual attribute values are marked red (until they reach the maximum). I don't remember exactly (I don't have original DM here) but I think that both maximum value of increased attribute and actually gained level should be ...

As far as I remember NO monsters could absorb for example clubs (and rock piles - and maybe other monsters too - does in RTC).

I am sorry but now my XP had (again!!!) Blue Screen Of Death so I finally rebooted. First what I tried was Orange dungeon and orange is still black. It is very suspicious, because I play DM-RTC dungeon and I am on the 3rd level and I've never any problems, but that black orange from Orange dungeon a...

I found this interesting topic: <a href="http://pub50.ezboard.com/freturntochaos ... 7.topic</a>

It seems you need to recompile Orange again. BTW 512MB RAM + 1G swap (my computer) ought to be enough for everyone

Is that orange from sample Orange dungeon meant to be black orange? When it lies on the ground, it is orange and looks like orange with leaf, but when I pick it or place it anywhere in the inventory, it has complete black shape.

Rock Piles should not absorb items thrown at them. I threw some clubs and arrows and it was absorbet by rock piles (and released when they died). But some monsters (I remember Rock Piles and Deth Knights) should not absorb items.

I agree, but (at least from my point of view) using load/savegames cuts off the atmosphere. If you hear sound of Deth Knights' plate, trust me, your fear and other feelings are more impressive if you must face them and continue with all loses you gain (health, stamina, items and maybe some heros) th...

I see the possibility to make *real* (ingame) suicide (for example by fireballs, poison clouds, pits, doors etc.) is more realistic and funny. Clicking on "Suicide" button/icon is not so satisfactory I think :-) BTW I found that several MON poison clouds do their job very good - my party i...

I'm sorry, I do not have any offsets for GameWizard yet. I remember I walked forward and backward and tried to get desired location by GW's function "Decreased/increased" value. It was not so complicated.

I used GameWizard (or whatever was called that cool utility) and cheated my dungeon position so I was in the shop. There was nothing except: * lever or button to activate fireball strom (seems to be like manual operated "alarm" :-) * objects bought from party (if any) * actually selected o...

What's that Monster Naming scroll? I don't remember I have seen any item like this.

This is behaviour exactly as DM has, but I think it is a bug. When my party leader throws items, his hand became disabled for a while - that's correct, he used this hand for throwing. But when leader has item in his action hand activated (so you can choose from actions like "Swing", "...

Uff! Looks great. My idea how to make DM for the 21st century was to use full 3D accelerated graphics. IMHO it has following: pros: * variable screen resolutions without any problems * accelerator will make all work for graphics, like light, transulency, dust, lens flare, water, shadows, fog etc. ef...

I just tested windowed RTC on NT4.0 (works well, fullscreen crashes) and I have one improvement: I tried MAP TEST and killed two mummys which were on the same tile. Death dust clouds that appeared was the same shape, just shifted by some pixels. If it possible to make these animations shifted in tim...

I think it is a good idea to get damage from eplosions or nearby tiles. But I think it's a bit unfair if monsters DO get damage from fireball exploding on the next tile but party DON'T.

I think only spells like fireball and lightning bolt should cause damage from explosion.

Exploring Chaos Strikes Back sources, I found that if rabbit's foot is in character's inventory, he gets some bonus, but I didn't explore it precisely so I could not say in which situations possesion of rabbit's foot helps. Mirror are used for quests - first is Eye on the wall in the 3rd floor and n...

Woudn't be nice to implement some better monster AI as I suggested some time ago? At least more inteligent monsters shoudn't shoot/fire if they could hit other monster instead of party. Monsters like Wizard Eyes should determine, that using attack spells in closed rooms in useless and try to use &qu...

I do use Mace of Order. It is good weapon for these two benefits:
- gives extra strength to owner
- swing action causes a lot of damage and has little recovery time

I feel mouse lag too on my Celeron 550MHz so I don't think it has something to do with CPU speed (or RTC requires P4? )

Is it possible? I was on 12th floor and I upgraded to 0.08 and my savegame doesn't work anymore. I would like to explore whole dungeon and I don't want to begin from scratch and because new features (wall tapping, better monster AI, bugfixes etc.) I would like I preffer to do it in 0.08

RTC 0.08 Map: ZOO Area: application failure When played ZOO map, I was in fauna & flora room, I was fighting and RTC sudenly exited without any warning or error message. I didn't found any reason why it failed 'coz lack of time. I will try more tries and maybe I'll find any ocassion why it crash...

Huh, I am almost sure I need to turn by myself. At least in CSB/Amiga for sure, in DM/Amiga probably too.

Type: bug/difference
Version: 0.07

When dropped item in the zooooom highway , in the DM item moved with party and was always on the same place (XY coords on the screen).
In RTC the items moves with party too, but the XY coords are about 1-2 pixel different each odd tile.

Type: difference
Version: 0.07

Empty flask and full flask (I think does not matter what is in the flask) inventory graphics is shifted for abou one pixel to the right, so if you exchange full and empty flask in the same inventory place, you can see the difference.

Type: bug (maybe difference?)
Version: 0.07

When you are on the zooom pressure pad sets, it turns you to the left at the end of the lane. It wasn't in DM - you was faced the same direction for whole ride.

Type: bug
Version: 0.07

When I try to cast spell which requires flask and I don't have flask in hand, characters action hand is disabled as if spell proceeded. I think it should first test if spell succeeded than disabling action hand.