I have noticed that in a majority of hunting areas, there is at least one type of undead creature present. Some of these make sense (fire guardians/fire phantoms, both fire-y type creatures). However, a vast majority of them do not make any sense to me (frozen corpses coexisting with wooly mammoths/saber toothed tigers, skeletal giants coexisting with storm giants, etc. etc.).

This doesn't make sense, as the undead would not typically coexist for long with the living.

From a playing standpoint, this doesn't affect pures much (since their main attacks hit undead/living equally well). For squares such as my warrior, it's extremely frustrating and limits how I am able to play the game. Berserking with my bonded flaring weapon in Storm Giants is impossible, since the accompanying Skeletal Giants are undead. My warrior will continue berserking an undead target he can't hit for up to five minutes.

This leaves me with the following questions for game designers:
1-Why is there not better separation between undead/living enemies in hunting areas? From a roleplaying/feasibility of their coexistence and a reasonable hunting mechanics standpoint, I can't understand why the two classes of enemies aren't better separated.
2-As a follow-up to the first point, can we make improvements to warriors berserking in order to improve how viable it is as a method of hunting? Is the presence of undead creatures intended to frustrate people who use berserking as a primary means of hunting? While we're on the subject, could monster decay timers be based on how long since the killing player had the opportunity to search the creature. If I berserk for half a minute, then I think I should be able to loot everything I just killed rather than have the treasure/bodies disappear in less than a minute. I suggest we remove out-of-place undead creatures from some hunting areas and increase corpse decay timers.

Curious to know game designer thoughts.
Kressilak

>This doesn't make sense, as the undead would not typically coexist for long with the living.

Speaking purely from an RP standpoint, I actually contest this statement. There is more than enough precedence among Luukosian cults for undead and living to coexist, either collaboratively toward a similar purpose or at the very least without explicit animosity toward one another every single waking moment. Outside of direct Luukosian Order/cult influence, there likewise are plenty of explanations as to why entities on varying ends of the Living-Unliving spectrum coexist.

Don't forget, Voln is an Order that is favored by the more vast civilization-oriented humanoid races, but there is no real precedence that I am aware of for the inclusion of humanoids in Voln's Order (or acting out his/his mother's personal vendetta against the undead) outside of those humanoids that can be selected through the character manager. In other words, there are literally or virtually no orcs, ogres, trolls, (actual) giants, kobolds, etc among that membership.

That does nothing to address the issue of berserk with mixed hunting grounds. Also, I also vastly favor hunting grounds that are exclusively living with no undead presence, so I understand where you are coming from even as a player of a non-warrior for my primary. I just don't agree with the RP side of your assessment.

- Overlord EK

>You now regard Eorgina with a warm demeanor.

The Miasmal Forest (Oteska's Haven included) is definitely one of my favorite-designed hunting grounds. I hate it a lot sometimes but I really like how it is anyway. It has a fair mix of undead and living creatures, which I also like.

It should be noted that living and undead creatures are prone to attacking each other, so the flavor is often there.

However, I don't have a warrior, and I think this post brings up an interesting discussion, especially with BERSERK.

One thing that annoys me is if I do an open MSTRIKE right as a creature walks out of the room, and it takes me a longer RT to swing just once at a creature. I feel like the command should fail or swing once with normal RT.

>Berserk can be stopped after about 50s of being out of control, or earlier if stamina is zero.

Yes, I'm aware. 9 rounds. If you're berserking for 5 minutes, you probably don't know about STOP.

I dont think this a hunting ground issue but more of an inherent risk when using berserk.

I still think there should be a way to emergency stop berserk for those times where you try to break a stun and end up berserking against undead, dont have your weapon/armor/shield, run into wasp nests, lightning elementals, something with cloak of shadows etc. Even if it cost alot of stamina or popped your muscles it would be useful.

>>This was back when there were only two towns (Icemule Trace and Wehnimer's Landing).

This did two things:
One made me chuckle a lot.
Two made me realize I've been playing this game far too long.

I realize a few months have gone by since this was even posted but I'd like to think that there is some greater story about the skeletal giants and storm giants cohabitation. Long ago atop Sentoph a bloodthirsty warrior preyed upon the storm giants, He would berserk and slay them men women and children alike. So it was the storm giants made a pact with a powerful sorcerer named Starsnuffer whom place a powerful curse on them, binding this hatred to their corpses so that they might avenge the fallen ancestors even after they had passed.

Yes Both Teras and Rivers Rest came before Icecube. I really miss the boot.. bring back the boot.

Incoming berserk 'review' alert!
Incoming berserk 'review' alert!
Incoming berserk 'review' alert!

-- Robert

A powerful whirlpool is suddenly overtaken by a windy vortex!