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what is the point with herb boots, elemental weapons and elemental magic?

Posted by ehasl on 02/06/02 - 08:10:49

they do just fill the inventory screen. that means i do not lose time on it. why cant i have the herb boots and the sword at the same time? in eot 2 i get a spell named herb boots, but while i use it i cant use my fireball spell. when i press enter in-game to change between f. ex. sword and herb boots the game is paused. and the game is paused while i change between different elemental magics and weapons too. from now on i HATE elemental weapons and magic and i hate the herb boots.

Re: what is the point with herb boots, elemental weapons and elemental magic?

Posted by redink1 on 02/06/02 - 09:37:48

: they do just fill the inventory screen. that means i do not lose time on it. why cant i have the herb boots and the sword at the same time? in eot 2 i get a spell named herb boots, but while i use it i cant use my fireball spell. when i press enter in-game to change between f. ex. sword and herb boots the game is paused. and the game is paused while i change between different elemental magics and weapons too. from now on i HATE elemental weapons and magic and i hate the herb boots.

Uh... I don't understand any of those arguments at all. Please rephrase. It appears you want Dink to be able to hold a million things at once. And yet... I don't get it.

By the game pausing, do you mean freezing so you're unable to do anything else, and you have to restart the computer? FIAT does some pretty odd things, and on slower computers it might take a while to do so. Or it might lock up.

Re: what is the point with herb boots, elemental weapons and elemental magic?

Posted by Paul on 02/06/02 - 13:53:04

: By the game pausing, do you mean freezing so you're unable to do anything else, and you have to restart the computer? FIAT does some pretty odd things, and on slower computers it might take a while to do so. Or it might lock up.

I think they just mean they don't like being pulled out of the action to go to the invintory screen and switch items. It's true that the elemental weapons/spells mwatn you ended up doing doing alot of that in Fiat.

Re: what is the point with herb boots, elemental weapons and elemental magic?

Posted by ehasl on 02/06/02 - 14:50:27

: : By the game pausing, do you mean freezing so you're unable to do anything else, and you have to restart the computer? FIAT does some pretty odd things, and on slower computers it might take a while to do so. Or it might lock up.

: I think they just mean they don't like being pulled out of the action to go to the invintory screen and switch items. It's true that the elemental weapons/spells mwatn you ended up doing doing alot of that in Fiat.

no. no bug. i mean that i do not lose any time in the dink world when pausing the game with the enter button. there is no point with having different items for that. if one really wants to win, one uses this tactique: when fighting a boss i change between the herb boots and the sword. i use the sword to hit him, and the boots to escape. this takes a lot of time, so i suggest that the herb boots should be a special ability that dink "learns", instead of an item or magic spell. but the automat hit (shift) in eot2 when having the herb boots on shall still be. that is very cool.

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Posted by ehasl on 02/06/02 - 15:18:51

: : : By the game pausing, do you mean freezing so you're unable to do anything else, and you have to restart the computer? FIAT does some pretty odd things, and on slower computers it might take a while to do so. Or it might lock up.

: : I think they just mean they don't like being pulled out of the action to go to the invintory screen and switch items. It's true that the elemental weapons/spells mwatn you ended up doing doing alot of that in Fiat.

: no. no bug. i mean that i do not lose any time in the dink world when pausing the game with the enter button. there is no point with having different items for that. if one really wants to win, one uses this tactique: when fighting a boss i change between the herb boots and the sword. i use the sword to hit him, and the boots to escape. this takes a lot of time, so i suggest that the herb boots should be a special ability that dink "learns", instead of an item or magic spell. but the automat hit (shift) in eot2 when having the herb boots on shall still be. that is very cool.

and i also wonder why i just can carry 5 bombs. why cant i have two item slots with 5 in each?