Where the Wild Things Spawn (11/18/2010)

[Arximiro]

Let's hope they at least fix the Leves like the ones in Nanawa mines. It's fucking ridiculous how many leves there force you to go into rooms full of Red/Orange pus Gnats. Red even at 30. There is also one Leve with the Devilet bs that is in a room with Yarzons, Pus Gnats, and Footpads, all of which will kick your ass. The imp and his BS 1k attack (Without Shell) that never fails for me is bad enough.

[Lucavi]

I love how they always think that the use of alliteration will just spice everything on this planet up.

Edit: Are they (and other games) ever going to explain how all of these mobs aggro you, yet not enemy humanoids? It drives me nuts in games to see all these vicious, wild and untamed monsters pathing right next to, or in some cases, through an enemy humanoid. I know exactly what you're talking about, Arx, and that shit still pisses me off that its so constantly done in games. FFXII is like the last game I can remember that actually had a few different types of monsters fighting one another before you get there.

Why can some bandit roll around a sea hare or gnat without getting skulled, yet if they catch a whiff of my scent from half a block away, here they come?

[Hyan]

Actually, they did talk about a concept like that they had in mind. They said the same thing during XI.

Man up and do it already!

[qpoiuwer]

Let's hope they at least fix the Leves like the ones in Nanawa mines. It's fucking ridiculous how many leves there force you to go into rooms full of Red/Orange pus Gnats. Red even at 30. There is also one Leve with the Devilet bs that is in a room with Yarzons, Pus Gnats, and Footpads, all of which will kick your ass. The imp and his BS 1k attack (Without Shell) that never fails for me is bad enough.

Wait until you get to the level 40 leves and you have to stand still for 6 minutes in the middle of a room like that.

[Spider-Dan]

Yeah, the last thing that I want in this game is more effing goats following me around, preventing me from using AOE abilities.

That's another one of the horrible "innovations" in this game. Give everyone a pile of AOE abilities, then place low-level mobs in the middle of much-higher-level mobs that psuedo-aggro.

[Agito]

The developers did say in an interview a long time ago that there will be enemy parties and that's what the picture looks like to me, lol.

[Katlan]

So they are reducing in game lag, but then adding monsters to increase in game lag? So all in all lag will be the same?
No, I really kid, but i wouldn't be surprised lol

[Rocl]

HD Fafnir is come?

[Vuitton]

a myriad menagerie of malicious monstrosities

ridiculous excercise of verbosity

[Callisto]

Maybe it's just me, but the enemies appear to be making much more threatening faces in the second picture, like in the first they're just milling about, but in the second they're like "You got a problem buddy? We don't take kindly to your type 'round these parts..."

[drwaffles]

Maybe it's just me, but the enemies appear to be making much more threatening faces in the second picture, like in the first they're just milling about, but in the second they're like "You got a problem buddy? We don't take kindly to your type 'round these parts..."

The first thought that crossed my mind when looking at those was "what, all docile mobs now follow you around like Mandragoras/Hpemdes?".

[Callisto]

Didn't the male goats already do that? I remember watching them randomly running all over during Beta.

[Meresgi]

Well, they could have picked a better monster. As a Marauder I am no fan of billies.

I can already see a caption for these two pictures.
"You ready Broad Swing"
"Hi."

Exactly what I thought and fucking lol. Cept in my case it's heavy trammel/leg sweep...



FUCKING DODOS AND GOATS!

[Cooleko]

Look in the background, more detail there. But yeah... what does it mean!!!!

[Spider-Dan]

Didn't the male goats already do that? I remember watching them randomly running all over during Beta.

All goats do that (dodos too, but less tenaciously).

It's annoying as f*ck.

[Telliani]

All goats do that (dodos too, but less tenaciously).

It's annoying as f*ck.

It's even more fun as I'm playing at BTN when I have 3-4 there. But they get kind of 'bored'. Walk off a little, get re-interested, walk back. I have 3-4 goats wandering around in a circle. and since I can't seem to find a way to turn down game sounds, it's this annoying constant *tap tap, walk through some grass shuffle* going as they walk through me and the tree.

[Arximiro]

You can turn game sounds down in the config, although sometimes it seems to glitch and work even when it's all the way down.

[miokomioko]

... and everyone got wooshed by their before/after pictures joke.

before: chaotic/random
after: order/thought-out

[Spider-Dan]

Huh? That only makes sense as an explanation if the mobs perpetually stand still.

[miokomioko]

Way to take it far too literally.

They are implying that the update will use a bit more sense in determining mob spawns, and will be less chaotic, random, and thoughtless than it has been.