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Re: A resort for retired goldhunters
Reply #20 - 30.09.2007 at 21:04:01

aquaMat wrote on 30.09.2007 at 20:51:51:

Oh really ??

This mother... is the hardest mansion of all times, including many nasty surprise deaths, unavoidable falls and creature attacks.

BTW, in my humble opinion, I really feel there are a few too many "sudden (cheap?) deaths" in ARFRG for an "officially released" mansion. When I consider what I always had to remove in my mansions before release..... I wouldn't have gotten away with some of those things in there..... Undecided

I mention that now, 'cause I just played the purple path again (or: tried to) and felt that it's especially "mean" there (just take the hi-speed platform jump in the second room of the purple path as an example).

I always felt I was quite a skilled player..... but there I certainly begin to doubt my abilities... Cheesy

Please give examples of:

1. Nasty surprise deaths
2. Unavoidable falls leading to death
3. Creature attacks which lead to unavoidable deaths
4. Sudden cheap deaths

The high speed platform jump is not invented by me. It has been around since Freddy's MM&M at least.

I do not, any more that other mansion builders, get away with Jack-stucks, half Jack-stucks, cheap deaths or anything like that. To my best knowledge there are no such things in Arfrg. My tester reported very few which were all fixed. So if there are still any JS, HJS, cd etc. around I would certainly like to know about them so I can fix them.

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Re: A resort for retired goldhunters
Reply #21 - 30.09.2007 at 21:59:51

brell wrote on 30.09.2007 at 20:58:53:

OK. Since you've finished the red section without opening that door you know it is not needed to get through but you miss a bit of treasure.

I know that, I just feel so silly to have missed it because it is not even remotely hidden!
Or maybe you should add a BBB to tell Jack not to overlook that door, and a few arrows poining to it as well Wink

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Toybox Treasure Hunter Offline Posts: 561 Kiel, Germany	Re: A resort for retired goldhunters Reply #22 - 30.09.2007 at 22:02:01 Ah, and sometimes I feel that the poles are not quite high enough, and Jack might inadvertently jump above them (and fall to his doom). Is this intentional?
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Toybox Treasure Hunter Offline Posts: 561 Kiel, Germany	Re: A resort for retired goldhunters Reply #23 - 30.09.2007 at 22:04:44 aquaMat wrote on 30.09.2007 at 20:51:51: I had the feeling the purple path was indeed the hardest ?! I meant that any path is likely to look easy when played after the purple one
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brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1783 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: A resort for retired goldhunters Reply #24 - 30.09.2007 at 23:41:39 Toybox wrote on 30.09.2007 at 22:02:01: Ah, and sometimes I feel that the poles are not quite high enough, and Jack might inadvertently jump above them (and fall to his doom). Is this intentional? No, it's not. Examples, please!
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Re: A resort for retired goldhunters
Reply #25 - 01.10.2007 at 00:05:48

Well, in the very first room for instance, if you jump from too close to the pole and as far as you can. And in the purple section: when you succeed with the high-speed jump and then you wish to jump back via the pole, then you shouldn't jump from too close to the left edge.

There may be other examples but then, either I forgot or I didn't miss the pole (could it be that there is one in the Red section?)

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Reply #26 - 01.10.2007 at 05:45:33

Tonight I made my first visits to this resort. Resort? Feels like a training camp! Wink

An interesting, but very hard mansion. Entrance for experienced players only, I am afraid. But what a challenge for them. It is good that once in a while there is also a well built, tough mansion. Didn't notice any mistakes so far, but I am not beta-testing, of course. Grin

Liked the yellow area very much, but got into deeeeep trouble Angry

at the very first zapper beams in the blue section. As always with zappers. Reminded me of

Temple of the Moon

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Re: A resort for retired goldhunters
Reply #27 - 01.10.2007 at 05:48:59

Freddy wrote on 01.10.2007 at 05:45:33:

Liked the yellow area very much, but got into deeeeep trouble Angry

at the very first zapper beams in the blue section. As always with zappers. Reminded me of

Temple of the Moon

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As elsewhere in this mansion, this one is extremely easy if you WAIT long enough to see the whole pattern Wink

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Re: A resort for retired goldhunters
Reply #28 - 01.10.2007 at 05:49:39

Toybox wrote on 01.10.2007 at 00:05:48:

Well, in the very first room for instance, if you jump from too close to the pole and as far as you can. And in the purple section: when you succeed with the high-speed jump and then you wish to jump back via the pole, then you shouldn't jump from too close to the left edge.

There may be other examples but then, either I forgot or I didn't miss the pole (could it be that there is one in the Red section?)

Thank you Toybox, I'll look into this.

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brell YaBB Administrator Offline Posts: 1783 Moita, Portugal Gender:	Re: A resort for retired goldhunters Reply #29 - 01.10.2007 at 06:18:35 Poles fixed (thanks Toybox) - and two(!) places where Jack could indeed stray out of his falling line - and kill himself. The credit for the latter goes to aquaMat, whose comments influenced me to check all falling paths again. An update will be released soon.
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