Thanks for putting Risen on the test instance! A lot of us are very pleased to be able to help out during the QC process.

I'll try not to delve too deeply here because I know things are still being fixed/tweaked/changed, but I do have a couple of questions.

Around what circle/skill level are necromancers expected to begin utilizing Risen? As someone with roughly 100th circle equivalent skills, I get the feeling that I'm still on the low-mid end of the spectrum - which isn't necessarily a bad thing, and may have something to do with my second question.

What exactly determines how effective you are at butchery? I've caught on to the fact that there's some sort of leveling-up system at play, whereby if you butcher strong enough creatures your skill increases. I started off at 'poor skill' and advanced up to 'slight skill' after hunting an at level mob to the point that it no longer gives me the 'your skill with butchery has increased' message.

It is a little jarring to be getting mediocre specimens off of creatures that you can very easily acquire flawless fetish material from, but that could just be because my expectations are in the wrong place.

One bug and one huh:

Bug: I went into one of the labs yesterday to read the instructions. I forget if I left normally or I logged off inside there, but when I came back today I could no longer enter any of the labs. Every door says: “You are already using a laboratory. You should go back to that one instead.” I never actually tried to assemble anything, just read the instructions inside. And the door I originally went into also won’t let me in again. So I’m effectively blocked from using this system right now in Test, presumably without GM intervention resetting some variable on me?

Huh: Perform butcher is random on the body part it chooses? The imprecision here doesn’t make sense given Necros are used to gameplay where they have to target non-desirable areas of a body when killing so they can heal off of non-damaged areas. Can we get something similar to how CF works where we choose the body part but can’t use a damaged part on the creature to butcher? The randomness was decidedly less fun and kind of annoying when trying to collect the parts (I got something like 6 or 7 torsos before I got 2 arms and legs so I'm just throwing meat left and right on the battlefield like this is some super gross slot machine).


Very excited to see what else is in store though. Cheers!

>I got something like 6 or 7 torsos before I got 2 arms and legs

In addition to the body part roulette being kind of annoying, it seems to me like there should be some limitations on critters with what you can butcher. Critters should have no more than 2 eyes, 1 brain, 1 head, 1 torso, and a maximum of 2 hands and 2 legs. Ophidians shouldn't have limbs, while maybe some insects can have more than 2 arms/legs.

I'm also a little confused, but maybe this will be revealed through test, what the difference between eyes, brains, and heads are in this system. While I'm so very glad that I got to write a sentence indicating ignorance of the distinction between eyes, brains, and heads, it seems that all three can be be used for 'motor functions', and I'm unclear if heads include a brain and/or eyes. And why all three seem to be able to be used as torsos or appendages.

Long Live Ocular Maximus, the Risen made entirely of eyes.

We genuinely couldn't tell if it was intentional or not, and were extremely pleased with it.

>>It's per risen, though this is acting a little oddly currently. I'm adding an ability to see how much longer it's going to be.

I'm seeing times ranging from 20 minutes to an hour now. Is that around what we should expect?

>>This is a reasonable request, and I'll change it so that you can go for the body part you actually want.

Very nice, that'll make it a LOT less clunky to build what you want.