How many guards does it take to kill a frogbeast?

loopy on 25/4/2003 at 20:08

if stoxy ain't careful, he/she/if other, please list might get reported and written up for the inhumane (yet vastly amusing) treatment of frogbeasts ... ! :cheeky:

hope your spawning license is up to date!

stoxy on 25/4/2003 at 22:36

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Originally posted by Preno
It's in fact the egg's "Corpse" (linked to the egg by a Corpse link), which means that when the egg is destroyed ("dies"), the corpse (in this case, a frogbeast) will appear. Other non-AI objects, such as windows) have corpses as well (their corpse = a broken window model).

Wow. 4 pairs of parenthesis in 2 sentences.

Like the stumps for the Watcher cameras?

Clever ;)

Azal on 26/4/2003 at 03:09

Love it! :D You should try and get every swordguard in the mansion out there.

I've seen the DeathStage=12 problem occur many times. Occasionally a water or gas arrow becomes invincible. Which is great for gas arrows as you can reuse it as many times as you like.

Mostly, I see it with the cannonballs from the CombatBots in Soulforge. If I'm feeling really playful I can get them to fill up an entire room with their smoking balls ;)

Haunt-of-DOOM on 27/4/2003 at 02:48

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Originally posted by Azal
Love it! :D You should try and get every swordguard in the mansion out there.

I've seen the DeathStage=12 problem occur many times. Occasionally a water or gas arrow becomes invincible. Which is great for gas arrows as you can reuse it as many times as you like.

Mostly, I see it with the cannonballs from the CombatBots in Soulforge. If I'm feeling really playful I can get them to fill up an entire room with their smoking balls ;)

Yes, ive seen this a few times. One time with a rope arrow. If I hit a non-wooded area it would stay there, floating but with no rope.

Lucky Hand of Glory on 27/4/2003 at 03:21

I think this happened to me too. I think it was LOTP, and I was on a roof and threw down a frogbeast and nothing happened. I waited and I waited...but nothing happened.

Jake on 27/4/2003 at 22:21

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Originally posted by Azal
If I'm feeling really playful I can get them to fill up an entire room with their smoking balls ;)

Get away from me, you sicko! No way you're getting near my... oh, is that not what you meant?

MHK on 28/4/2003 at 02:54

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Happened to me exactly twice on non-consecutive occasions with water arrows. How in the heck do you force it to happen, because that would undoubtedly be useful.

Usually when the frogbeast bugs out, I just shoot it with a broadhead, it blows up and kills the guard, I get blamed, and then I have to reload. Reloading does tend to solve the problem.

Alexius on 28/4/2003 at 04:05

A ha ha ha ha!
Priceless image! ahh... 4th image is a true work of art! Magnifique! ha ha ha
/falls of the chair laughing/

-Alexius-
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ataricom on 28/4/2003 at 05:48

You can run into death stage 12 alot in TDP. I first encountered it in Baffords. I KO'd the sleeping servent and hit him once or twice with my sword. Then, I picked him up and dropped him down the spiral stair case leading into the basement. I first noticed something was wrong when he didn't yell when he hit the floor. I went down to the bottom and picked him up, and he was still alive. That's death stage 12 for ya.

*Zaccheus* on 28/4/2003 at 11:26

Heh, that's really cool.

I would suspect that there might be an un-initialised variable in Thief's C++ code, that's the most common reason for 'random' oddness in software, strange behaviour which happens every now and then, with no observable pattern.

A question:
Does this tend to occur more often when you have been playing Thief for a long time without rebooting?