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Re: CF: Acid blobs, again

On Jul 24,  6:41pm, Christian Stieber wrote:
> Subject: CF: Acid blobs, again
> Hi,
> 
> could someone give me a quick explanation what the deal with the new
> acid blobs is? I don't know what to tell people asking me why they get
> killed by acid blobs even though they are immune acid, other than
> advising them to not hit them since they seem to make no damage unless
> you hit them physically. Is this one of the new bugs (like stars
> killing monsters, counterspell killing jessies, face of death not
> killing wizards etc. --- melee weapons killing the player, instead
> of the monster?)), is is intentional, or what?

 There is a bug in acid blobs.  Will be fixed in the next version
(for I imagine historic reasons, acid blobs attack with acid |
ghosthit - ghosthit so it disappears after one hit.  however, this
also means the attack type gets ghosthit.)

 in the next version, I have removed the special property from
ghosthit which causes the monster to be removed - instead, there
is a new flag that says the monster disappears.  This should work
better in just general cases.

> 
> It seems to be somewhat random --- sometimes a single acid blob takes
> away just 20% or so of my hitpoints, at other times (same equipment,
> same character!) the same acid blob seems to take more than 50% away
> with a single hit. What kind of damage are they doing? I'm immune fire
> cold magic acid drain depl, protected physical electricity acid and a
> whole bunch of other things, ac -48 and armor 99, and I have never met
> a monster doing that much damage except for the two unholy goblin
> assassins with their _heavy_ godpower attack, and dark angel hanuk
> with his meteors.

 I think they do 1-100 (a very broad range).  On the one hand, that
seems excessive - on ther other, if it was only something like 1-20, they
would not be very threatening.

 As a semantic point, I take it you actually mean acid sphere's?  There
is another monster called just 'blob' - the blobs are the fast
moving creatures that such up every item (vacuum cleaners).




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