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[critto]

Okay. Really, the mod is totally fun and pleasure, but in the name of all that sacred, next version should ease up on spiders a little bit.
I thought 2 drow ambushes were hard to beat with those annoying spiders being everywhere. Apparantly, I was mistaken.
Deeper underdark. Cave with an instant supply of whisper spiders (where they just keeping coming from nowhere). Really, how can I beat this thing? They dispel everything, they somehow draw characters from place to themselves, and sometimes they just kill chars instantly. Why is that? Why no info about the damage being done or save-throw being made (dwarf-kensai, instantly dead. huh?). And, finally, there are just TOO DAMN much of them, my characters can't handle them, even though I have a fighter-heavy party (vagrant, kensai, blade, berserker-cleric, sorc, thief/mage). I am doing buffs, of course, but they are being dispelled very soon and there is no point and time in refreshing them. Summons doesn't help much too (tried 5 hasted mordy swords). Tried magic (adwh, chain lightnings), but they are magic resistant, as it seems.
I am no great tactician, but how am I supposed to win that battle? :) Just keep reloading and hope for better save-throws and no instant-kills? I would be really glad to have some advices on that battle. This is the first one in the game which makes me feel annoyed, instead of being interested, having fun and searching for better tactics.

[critto]

I just checked and didn't find anything which might have caused such a thing. Had you possibly attacked the Cursed Ghost in the first area of the maze? Even if so, what you have experienced was not a bug. I will explain what has happened if you tell me that you had attacked (or tried to pickpocket) the Cursed Ghost.

I certainly never attacked him, of that I am sure. But, to tell you the truth, I do not remember about the pickpocketing. I might have tried out of pure curiosity. Though there were many reloads while I was fighting my way through the maze, so I am not sure that I've saved the game exactly after pickpocketing. Have I done something wrong by trying to pickpocket him? So what exactly has happened there? Why did it occur only once?

This post has been edited by critto: Feb 19 2009, 05:40 PM