Dwarf fortress bronze full#

The only thing that decreases your pain level is time (and technically one of the very rare bionics abilities). Deaths in Cataclysm usually happen when you start doing poorly in combat, and end up in too much pain to outrun or outfight your enemies.

Being in pain causes stat and speed penalties that can quickly become substantial. Every wound increases your pain level, and these don't go away when you slap bandages on. The real danger of combat is your character's 'pain' level. (You'll temporarily lose use of a limb when it's very low on hp, and permanently if it hits zero, but these rarely happen except just before death). These hit points are unrealistic in all of the traditional ways: they can be quickly restored by bandages and first aid kits, and there's very little in the way of permanent damage or combat penalties. Running out of head or torso hit points will kill you. The Cataclysm character has hp numbers for each of six body parts (head/torso/arm/arm/leg/leg). It's also one of the only games that has any legitimate *need* for one.Дў) In your discussions of healing, I would have liked to hear references to Cataclysm's pain system. So I guess my takeaway point is that DF isn't just the only game that's succeeded at anything like a physics-simulation combat engine. And if this particular game world is rich in wonkatite ore, it needs to make sure that the properties of wonkatite swords, wonkatite maces, wonkatite plate mail, wonkatite ballista arrows, and wonkatite mechanisms are reasonably related. But there really aren't very many metals in the world it's a lot easier for the game designer to take on this responsibility than to try to write a research-level physics simulator.ДF, on the other hand, is actually hoping to procedurally generate new types of metal, new types of armor or weapons, etc. In more specialized games, maybe brittleness will become involved. In a lot of games, bronze might just mean 'better than copper but worse than iron'. Without simulation, it becomes the designer's responsibility to make sure that bronze works 'similarly' in bronze longswords and bronze helmets. At most, you might want that 'longswords' are medium-sized cutting weapons that use the 'sword' skill, that 'bronze' gives a weapon -1 to hit and damage, and that 'well-made' gives +1 to hit and +1 to resist breakage. In most games, it's massive overkill to look at a 'well-made bronze longsword' and to start doing physics to figure out how well-smithed bronze distributes shear forces. DF, at least in the long-term, is trying to allow procedurally generated materials, weapons, and fighting styles. Most RLs are using a fixed or mostly-fixed set of weapons and abilities to create procedurally-generated dungeons and combats. DF has a very different goal from most roguelikes, though. Reply DeleteДЎ) You discussed Dwarf Fortress as the only game which has made a reasonable attempt to determine combat statistics from physics/material simulation. Overall, after playing games with well designed combat systems, the typical 'bump to attack with lots of numbers' feels boring and needlessly complicated.

Much better than a typical system, where you have lots of numbers (stats, accuracy, dodge, armor, damage, critical hit chance) which affect your effectiveness in unclear ways (all these bell curves are hard to analyze and you often even do not have the formulae), and you typically end up in guessing what is good for you, and using one weapon for everything. Health regenerates only if you fight effectively and it is thus an important resource, you will eventually lose all your health before winning the game if your set of weapons is not good enough.

Dwarf fortress bronze full#

To be powerful, you need to pick up (or create) a set of weapons of different types, power, and colors which effectively kills as many hydras as possible (you are allowed 6 weapons in the end for the coffebreak game, and up to 10 for the full game). The system is deterministic, and based (mostly) on simple mathematical rules, so you have to do some planning in order to find the sequence of attacks which slays each hydra most effectively sometimes it is even worth it to include attacks that seem to make the enemy stronger. There are weapons which are more or less powerful, but as a general rule, the more powerful the weapon is, the harder it is to find an enemy that you can use it on also, for most weapons, some hydras will be resistant (or even made stronger), based on color. I would like to advertise the unique combat mechanics in Hydra Slayer. In IVAN you cannot attach an arm of another monster, but there is indeed an important feature of exchanging your limbs into ones made of powerful materials.