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In a similar vein to my Kolby holds, meet Ordvan, a squeamish smitemaster!

Dischorran
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This is a nice concept hold dealing with the rather significant complications involved in finding oneself pointing the other way after killing an enemy. It starts reasonably manageable, and develops from there with some neat exploration of the idea - how *does* one deal with a group of aumtlich without reliable sword protection, anyway?. Rooms that would be trivial (or occasionally impossible) for Beethro become quite a challenge for Ordvan, and are puzzles in advance planning and manipulating groups of monsters appropriately.

Definitely worth trying out, and quite a change from the standard DROD puzzles!

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disoriented
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Instead of a custom monster, we have a custom player character, with strategies that need to adjust for the situation. Quite fun!

Should Third Level: 2N be marked scorable or no?

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Someone Else
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About Third Level 2N:

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Neather2
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Is it just me, or when you continue a previously started game, the player won't be anymore affected by the scripting and the whole concept fades away? Because this is just what happened to me.

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Someone Else
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That shouldn't be happening... I haven't had any troubles with that or with restoring.

Neather2
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Someone Else wrote:
That shouldn't be happening... I haven't had any troubles with that or with restoring.

I don't really know, but that keeps happening to me. Anytime I continue a previous game, the player just turns into a regular Beethro.

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Conspiracy, my new hold, has just been released.

mrimer
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Neather2 wrote:

Someone Else wrote:
That shouldn't be happening... I haven't had any troubles with that or with restoring.

I don't really know, but that keeps happening to me. Anytime I continue a previous game, the player just turns into a regular Beethro.

What version of the engine are you using?

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Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
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Neather2
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mrimer wrote:

Neather2 wrote:

Someone Else wrote:
That shouldn't be happening... I haven't had any troubles with that or with restoring.

I don't really know, but that keeps happening to me. Anytime I continue a previous game, the player just turns into a regular Beethro.

What version of the engine are you using?

4.0.0.108

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mrimer
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I'd suggest upgrading to 4.0.2 and trying again.

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Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
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Neather2
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mrimer wrote:
I'd suggest upgrading to 4.0.2 and trying again.

I've just upgraded to 4.0.3.113 (the latest) and nothing changed.

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Conspiracy, my new hold, has just been released.

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TFMurphy
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Upgrading and trying a possibly already bugged save isn't sufficient. Start a new game and make new saves for the hold and see if the problem persists.

Neather2
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Yes, it does work properly now. Thanks.

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larrymurk
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I liked having a new scripted game mechanic (player reversing direction after striking monsters).

Although the hold is fun overall, I felt like there were several places where I just had to try every combination of moves to see what finally succeeded (like level 2 aumtlich room).