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May 30th, 2006, 12:18 PM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
Maybe the message means it adds to chill effect and not heat effect...
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May 30th, 2006, 02:31 PM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
The usefulness of Breath of Winter is "(mostly) none" because real, big, tough SCs are the only thing it's useful on.
In all other cases, it's only a great way to kill fellow mages or bodyguards. And sadly the spellcasting AI is too fond of the spell ...
Btw, haven't been SCs nerfed in Dom3?
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May 30th, 2006, 03:51 PM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
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Arralen said:
The usefulness of Breath of Winter is "(mostly) none" because real, big, tough SCs are the only thing it's useful on.
In all other cases, it's only a great way to kill fellow mages or bodyguards. And sadly the spellcasting AI is too fond of the spell ...
Btw, haven't been SCs nerfed in Dom3?
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Liferain has been, or so I've read.
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May 30th, 2006, 04:45 PM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
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The usefulness of Breath of Winter is "(mostly) none" because real, big, tough SCs are the only thing it's useful on.
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Well, since SCs are what do most of your killing for most of the game, I still don't see why that's a bad thing. Compare the difference between a Niefel Jarl with and without breath of winter cast to see the difference between chill and BoW.
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In all other cases, it's only a great way to kill fellow mages or bodyguards. And sadly the spellcasting AI is too fond of the spell ...
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If you are worried about mages casting it when they shouldn't, then a better change would be to make mages not cast it automatically rather than to make the spell useless. |
May 30th, 2006, 06:13 PM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
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Arralen said:
The usefulness of Breath of Winter is "(mostly) none" because real, big, tough SCs are the only thing it's useful on.
In all other cases, it's only a great way to kill fellow mages or bodyguards. And sadly the spellcasting AI is too fond of the spell ...
Btw, haven't been SCs nerfed in Dom3?
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Nope, it was useful with any thug also, as long as it doesn't operate amongst friendly frail mages or troops.
It was an overpowerful spell IMHO, but I second Graeme, making it useless is not a good answer ... |
May 30th, 2006, 10:49 PM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
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BTW in the preview Dom3 version I have (2.79 sent to press) BoW just doesn't work, ...
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How did Shrapnel/Illwinter choose beta testers for DOM_3? 
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May 31st, 2006, 08:18 AM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
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BTW in the preview Dom3 version I have (2.79 sent to press) BoW just doesn't work, ...
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How did Shrapnel/Illwinter choose beta testers for DOM_3?
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That's a "press preview" version I got - I'm onr of the Dom-men (along with Pocus) for Cyberstratege mag.
As for betatesters, dunno, in fact I was rejected for betatesting due to my "press" category 
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May 31st, 2006, 08:36 AM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
I don't think there are many beta testers, and most of them would be well known to the IW guys. Gandalf is one and Psitticine is very probable given what he's done for them earlier. The rest I figure are JK's and KO's friends.
The topic of beta testing actually came up when I offered some other unrelated help with Dom3 but it didn't really go anywhere.
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May 31st, 2006, 02:14 PM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
When did I say I was one?
I am a beta tester but I dont remember ever saying what games Im in the test groups for.
But there are two answers. One is that Shrapnel has occassionally posted calls for beta-testers. Usually in the Shrapnel General forum. Not for a specific game but for people to be in the beta group.
The other is that if you search back in the Dom2 forum you will see posts by Illwinter mentioning their beta-test group and the comfort of them speaking swedish.
I thought I had also seen a post giving really small numbers for a test group but I cant seem to find it now. So it may just be a small mix drawn from Shrapnels and Illwinters beta groups.
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June 1st, 2006, 01:52 AM
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Re: Promising stuff on the newest update!
I think I remember that fluent Swedish was a requirement for beta testers...
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