New Module: Hack and Slash (still in beta)

[henk brouwer]

I've run into some trouble with hack and slash. It seems that something is slowing down the framerate to really really low levels (less than a frame per second) when entering the tower. It didn't happen right away but after a while. not sure what is causing it, exiting the tower and entering it later doesn't cure the problem either.. (the framerate is ok when you're out of the tower, the problem returns when you enter again) I don't have the fastest machine, a pentium II 266, but I haven't had any problems with the framerate before, so I guess it must be something odd in the module.

Other than that I'm having fun, I killed Sertis, and finished the easter egg thing and some other levels. I hope I can fight my way through the tower at 0.5 frames per second , or that there is a way around it

[ October 31, 2003, 07:00: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]

[henk brouwer]

Hmm I think the large Groups of summoned guardians must have been the problem. I killed three Groups of them and now the framerate is back in the green. I used the pause function a lot since that seemed to force a redraw of the screen (which only happened once every 5 seconds otherwise). The tower map is really cool btw. It seems to use a few different connection types, which is nice, it makes the map less precictable and gives a nice "what's around the corner" tension.

My fighter seems quite invincible right now with the loot he found in Lord Sertis layer. might have something to do with the fact that I used the spell-patch on the module. those berserker orks aren't that impressive anymore . I also started as a level 1 character, which might mean that the monsters generated in the dungeon are of a somewhat lower level than they should be. still having a lot of fun.

I'm off to grab the Last key..

[henk brouwer]

I did it! I returned the crown of the magis! *again*!

The final battle was great, the lich king was dispatched quickly, but one of his vampiric friends had steel carapace, major life leech AND major regeneration, quite a deadly combination, I couldn't hurt him even though I was doing 70-179 damage per hit. I finally managed to web him to the ground using a high level scroll (-700 movement rate ) and then killed him using my dual-wielded axes while quaffing large quantities of healing potion.

Great module!

[ November 01, 2003, 10:50: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]