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Obsidian bug

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:18 pm
by AlexanderBorisov
Does anyone know why weevils shoot just two plasma balls in Obsidian (under rebirth 0.58.1), instead of smart missiles they are supposed to fire?
Is it a bug? I am using obsidian from DMDB. Everything else is ok. Well in fact I did not tried other rebirth versions but in DOS version it is the same.
I tried to view robot stats in Descent level editor but could not find working link to one...

Re: Obsidian bug

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 5:27 pm
by LightWolf
Early versions of the 'bot use plasma, later versions use the missiles.

Re: Obsidian bug

Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 4:08 am
by AlexanderBorisov
LightWolf wrote:Early versions of the 'bot use plasma, later versions use the missiles.
Do you mean later version of Obsidian, if so where can I get it? Or it will fire missiles in the later levels? I am at level 6, where there is already a plasma driller, so this weevil looks too easy in comparison, so I thought it is a bug.

Re: Obsidian bug

Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 7:14 am
by LightWolf
The later levels will have the smart missile version. I know there is one by level 8. The smart version is probably introduced on level 7.

Re: Obsidian bug

Posted: Mon May 01, 2017 8:06 am
by Alter-Fox
Yeah there are two versions of the bot.

Re: Obsidian bug

Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 8:38 am
by Sirius
Yeah that was intentional, the smart missile version is kind of an equivalent to a Boarshead, and level 5 (or was it 4? I don't remember) felt way too early to introduce that.