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I didn't notice any transitions.

However, Jelly and I just completed it. Thirteen minutes and 42 seconds for those interested. Plevmus spawned and that, what he left behind, made Jelly very happy.

Awesome map. It looks great and it plays great. It's not the same boring fight-in-the-same-room-for-five-minutes-crap, you just ram through it, killing everything that moves. I really like it!
 

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Just wanted to say that the archer boss is fuckin illogical, you just spawn into the room, get blinded by some white light and immediately raped without even noticing.
 

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Tao said:
Just wanted to say that the archer boss is **** illogical, you just spawn into the room, get blinded by some white light and immediately raped without even noticing.

Well thats the point I guess :wink:

And I want to remind u all that its Thothie that created the awesome bosses, we tryed to make the boss room and the rest of this map at the same lvl but, The bow boss seems to be more powerfull :D

And I dont recomend this map for lvl 15, but I told Thothie when it was to late to change that so blame me for the false lvl thing,
 

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Jelly and I encountered Plevmus on our first run-through. He was a real pushover (I'm not saying sh*t on how we killed him, though) and the reward was very nice (a flame lick and a bone blade).

We were like "Damn, mega easy, mega reward!" so we restarted the map and Fadda joined us. In the boss room, Xaron spawned and we were like "Yes, orion bow!" only to find out that he completely raped us.

We couldn't do crap. We came into the boss room, got blinded, and died. Even I died with my 779 HP in a matter of seconds. A greater potion of protection didn't do very much, and also my rune shield didn't work too well. This dude ****ing wastes you with... bombs. If only Dwarven arrows had sweet splash damage like that...

Anyway, after trying almost everything we could think of, including rushing, shielding, fire gauntlets martial arts kicking, greater ice blades (that worked until he drank a cold immunity potion) and insane magic whoring, we decided to just screw it and restart the map.

Upon arriving in the boss room at the end of the third run, that Xaron bastard spawned again and we couldn't do shit. Even worse, Jelly had left because he had to go, so only Fadda and I were left and we couldn't do crap.

I will get him, someday, but for now I'll just say that he's harder than Atholo and I doubt that's intentional.
 

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He was one of the easier ones to solo in my tests (maybe just after Hammer dude and Axe dude). Just keep moving, and don't melee him.
 

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Has the whole concept of ranged weaponry suddenly escaped you? ;)

Fireball, ice storm, lightning storm, poison cloud, arrows, repeat. Take care of the order you use those spells in, as he'll likely take his immunity pots.

...also pray he doesn't take a potion of speed... He's a real pain when he does that. Rapid fire blinding spheres HURT.
 

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It's funny, 'cause Thothie is posting the startegy guide for getting uber weapons >_>
 

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It's not funny, because if you run around and cast spells, you're slowed down.

Edit: And I'll see how uber the Orion bow is once I get my hands on it. Xaron doing as high as 250 damage with it doesn't mean crap. The damage an average player will do with it will probably be at least five times as low.
 

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Time your casts, stay as far away from him as possible, and you'll be fine. Helps to time the cast with his shots and jump to one side when initiating new spells.
 

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Frodo, for some reason the map tend to lag way too much. Is there any reason for that? (bloodrose works fine and is way bigger)
 

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FPS Or internet?

This map isnt friendly to old graphiph cards though.
Maybe its something with the grid sice or anything

I dont experience any critical fps drops, but meybe some lag when playing on a slow listen server.

But if this causes way 2 big problems for many people maybe something can be done..... hmm... hmmm... hmmm...
 

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-sigh- hate to tell you this... archer boss and axe boss is too easy now... I know the weakness!
 

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Got the map up on the content server, and main page. Added a res file to the package.

Code:
maps/the_keep.res
music/ms_war.mp3
sound/amb/burnt.wav
The_Keep_credits.txt

I've still yet to play it, aside from the bits I tested. :( Just looking at the ent list though, think it coulda used more elite bandits.
 

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The lag if FPS oriented and atleast two people are experiencing it.

Its not too many ppl but its damn annoying
 

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Orion bow is pretty damn sad... I don't think archery level even counts in the damage calculation. Jaggeds are better, unless maybe you've got 30 SC then you can go ahead and use Orion.
 

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Awww, but I want it so badly :| I want to make my archery collection complete D:
 

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Bravo! Woot! Awesome map Frodo!!!!11!!!!1111

Thanks for the map, its pretty nice, and I enjoy it.
 

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Thothie said:
Got the map up on the content server, and main page. Added a res file to the package.

Code:
maps/the_keep.res
music/ms_war.mp3
sound/amb/burnt.wav
The_Keep_credits.txt

I've still yet to play it, aside from the bits I tested. :( Just looking at the ent list though, think it coulda used more elite bandits.

Yes indeed! Some more elite bandits for sure, to make this map more defensive :oldshock:
 

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J-M v2.5.5 said:
Edit: And I'll see how uber the Orion bow is once I get my hands on it. Xaron doing as high as 250 damage with it doesn't mean crap. The damage an average player will do with it will probably be at least five times as low.
Shurik3n said:
Orion bow is pretty damn sad... I don't think archery level even counts in the damage calculation. Jaggeds are better, unless maybe you've got 30 SC then you can go ahead and use Orion.
Oh man, I ****ing knew it.

Sorry to say this, Thothie, but what a huge cliché.
 

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So what does 'snick snack' mean anyway.

I just beat Xaron by the way :mrgreen:
But no Orion bow :|
I just beat Demonicus by the way :mrgreen:
But no Novablade :|

When I beat Plevmus, the chest spawned a flamelick and a bone blade, so I figured the spawn chance would be 100% but well, who am I kidding :p
 
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