Underdark Server Open Beta

g1asgow · Post by **g1asgow** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:08 pm

I feel abused after a couple of hours on that server...need to go for a shower.

Keep it tough...life should be short and cheap down there.

Heronimous Fox · Post by **Heronimous Fox** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:33 pm

....the absolutely no rules feel.... will make people less possessive of items cos you sure as hell gonna die and loose stuff.

...and the prostitutes are worth the 100 gold

Froggy · Post by **Froggy** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:18 pm

Love the place. Feel is great. But I was wondering few things.

I found one of the NPC dead and I can see the corpse but can't seem to target him to raise. His name was "XXXX the Cruel". Not that many character will raise him being evil server and all, but just a thought.

Guano Cave: Beyond first floor seemed excessive in number of spawns and rate of respawn.

Troglodite Cave: Traps underwater are quite nasty as even if you beat the DC to spot them, water surface will not allow you to see them. Also it may be intended, but they keep on rearming after it goes off.
That's a feature

- liephus

szabot · Post by **szabot** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:18 pm

A few more comments:

I found Rolax the Cruel dead. He had left a corpse, but the corpse wasn't useable. Should it be (for raising)?

In the conversation of Maburak of Ptah where he explains who Ptah is, there is a sentence that begins "Is it..." but it should be "It is."
Fixed - liephus
One of the Devil's Corkscrew areas (with small black pudding spawns) has a bad transition - can't click on it because it's not visible, so only works by running over it using the keyboard.
Fixed - liephus
Everything everywhere is still pwning me.

This is also a feature

- liephus

plekszy_gladsz · Post by **plekszy_gladsz** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:26 pm

Looks great. On my first trip me and a lonely dwarf managed to loot the Amber dragon. I taunted and he looted. Just that one of us never made it back

Only thing i saw was in the temple of Kimonicticus.

He says you have donated 0 gold to Kimonicticus
and then it say you have donated 0 gold to Cibus of Valok.
Fixed - liephus
If its right then Kudos to the Valokian!!!

tizmo · Post by **tizmo** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:42 pm

Lovin' it!

I found one bug? in the really smelly Damp Cavern (Troglodite Cave) just off the East Worm Road. Near the center of the map, there is a transistion to what looks to be another cave. The transition doesn't work.

szabot · Post by **szabot** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:11 am

Except for the time I first logged in, I'm receiving a PC hide each time I log in. It has no properties.

Also, I think something related may have been mentioned before, but I'll list it as a suggestion: add a custom race golem to the start tent. It would be nice to actually be able to make Vasharan in Dark City.

Froggy · Post by **Froggy** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:24 am

Not a bug, but bartender at Starlight Lounge can only be spoken to, if you go through the door that say "Staff Only". Tried talking over the counter, but pathfinding automatically makes you go around to talk to him/her.
Fixed - liephus

Ghostie · Post by **Ghostie** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 1:59 am

Froggy wrote:Not a bug, but bartender at Starlight Lounge can only be spoken to, if you go through the door that say "Staff Only". Tried talking over the counter, but pathfinding automatically makes you go around to talk to him/her.

Ghostie wrote:In the Starlight Lounge, speaking to Ululin without going around the counter/through the kitchens etc is impossible, whereas in theory you should be able to speak to her from across the counter/bar?

Froggy · Post by **Froggy** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:08 am

Ghostie wrote:In the Starlight Lounge, speaking to Ululin without going around the counter/through the kitchens etc is impossible, whereas in theory you should be able to speak to her from across the counter/bar?

Woops. Missed that one.

Found another bug. Transition from many hilled area in East Worm Pass into Ooze infested area is treated like server transition. Each time I transition I get server message saying "Welcome to Avlis" and also get divine damage for amount I was damaged while there.
Yikes! Thank you for noticing that. Fixed.- liephus

liephus · Post by **liephus** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:42 am

Thanks for all the feedback so far. I just uploaded a new version with fixes to a lot of what you guys have brought up.

On the subject of difficulty, every dungeon has a learning curve. Once you figure out where things spawn, what tactics work best, the difficulty drops immensly. That said, I did make a few tweaks to the bat caves that should make it more reasonable. I'm also looking at adding a few more resting zones, but haven't changed anything yet.

Game on.

- liephus

Pathos Street · Post by **Pathos Street** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:51 am

Zircon the jailer is not see-through, though his conversation implies that he is.

cgruquet · Post by **cgruquet** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:51 am

dose that mean testing is over< cause i couldnt log on....

liephus · Post by **liephus** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:54 am

cgruquet wrote:dose that mean testing is over< cause i couldnt log on....

You can log in now.

cgruquet · Post by **cgruquet** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:38 am

sweet

Qohg · Post by **Qohg** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:29 pm

where can i find some info about the demons that the Vasharan worship? At the Temple disctict all we have are some naughty gods from the nine, i was hoping to see and get to know the demons they worship.

one more question, when the beta phase ends, will i have my "beta char" waiting for me?

Snow · Post by **Snow** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 2:48 pm

DC is currently on a different database and character vault from the rest of Avlis since everything is just being tested still. The beta vaults will be cleared once the server goes live officialy.

Qohg · Post by **Qohg** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:10 pm

Snow wrote:DC is currently on a different database and character vault from the rest of Avlis since everything is just being tested still. The beta vaults will be cleared once the server goes live officialy.

Nice to know, i messed up with my char creation. What bout our char's background?

Pathos Street · Post by **Pathos Street** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:27 pm

It's a test server. You don't even have to be IC if you don't want to, just run around and test stuff. Make a character, any character... then press buttons, open doors, do quests, feed the auromvorax, die a lot, and report any issues you find. It'll all get deleted when the server goes live: background, XP, gold, items, stats, hair color... everything.

Qohg · Post by **Qohg** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:40 pm

nice to know that aswell.

uncast · Post by **uncast** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:05 pm

Loving it so far. Had a blast with a group today.

Okay, a few things I noticed today:

1)Instead of xxxx the Cruel that is dead, some Onna Blockdelver is dead near where Mr. Cruel was. Mr. Cruel isn't there anymore, though.
Body's not targetable as well, not sure if that's intentional or not.

2)One of Marburak of Ptah's convo is broken. When you ask "Why put a shrine way down here? Aren't you afraid of getting killed?", the convo breaks.

3)I also noticed that I could have two robes and amulets of Ptah, though that may be related that I have two PC hides.

I tried removing the hides from my packs, and now I can have three.

4)Now, regarding the torture equipment...
Like the post before, they do nothing if you target other people. (Script not up yet, I guess). But, if you target yourself, you will make a 'melee touch attack', always roll an 18, and misses all the time. Tested with the flaying item and torture kit. And the merchant only sells one of each.

Hope that was helpful.

spool32 · Post by **spool32** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:12 pm

Reth T'reth doesn't say anything, and his Bag is unusable.

The Mushroom guarding quest kicks ass.

Falling down that invisible hole to the north of the Temple district = eventual certain death with no corpse recovery if you're first level and you answer the demon poorly.

if you Use the guillotine twice, the blade goes up and the head jumps back onto the body. heh...

Arond · Post by **Arond** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:15 pm

Jumped in last night for a bit of fun with things, very cool and a great underdark feel. I also loved the mushroom guarding quest, a great new type of quest that I'd love to see up in the surface world somewhere. It may very well be there somewhere and I haven't found it yet, but very cool

plap33 · Post by **plap33** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:43 am

Could I get the succubus's phone number so I can show her my boom stick?

Xandor Amakiir · Post by **Xandor Amakiir** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:20 am

One thing, i went for a little tresure hunting *grins* got the normal tresure except for the gold. I only found 1 GP gold drops...

Could be intentional, but i seemed a bit odd...