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| author | Nicholas Feinberg <pleasingfung@gmail.com> | 2014-07-13 00:10:30 -0700 |
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| committer | Nicholas Feinberg <pleasingfung@gmail.com> | 2014-07-13 00:33:57 -0700 |
| commit | cfb61905c56eeeb599c04d43f7be9efdaad15e89 (patch) | |
| tree | 92033bdb46857585911d6f80228a3583455baaba /crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt | |
| parent | 9b6b733bccd0de2af35eb6c28e94e4708a92004d (diff) | |
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Rebalance crossbows
Again as a result of the ranged weapons rebalance, crossbows
needed to change. The analogy here is long blades' to bows'
m&f; better return on skill investment & a higher power cap,
but rarer.
Hand crossbows are added as a starting type, "something like an
armour-piercing dagger"; crossbows are upgraded to arbalests
(a little worse than a glaive), and a new rare triple crossbow
type is added on the top end (a little worse than a bardiche,
though with a lower skill cost.) Please note that the triple
crossbow historically existed & is extremely verisimilitudinous.
Hellfire is now an arbalest, and Sniper is now a triple crossbow
(well, a "heavy crossbow", since it has mindelay of 27 instead of
22, and since I didn't want to have to change the sprite).
All crossbows have a mindelay of at least 1.0; this is an attempt
to differentiate them. Possibly something more ambitious will be
attempted in 1.6, but this is a first step.
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt index 889583f42e..ce5cd3cde9 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt +++ b/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript/items.txt @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ A large piece of thick skin covered in fur, cut from the corpse of an animal and worn as a primitive garment. It offers rudimentary protection against harm, but, having never been tanned, it carries a light stench of rotting flesh. %%%% +arbalest + +A large piece of machinery used for firing bolts, braced with steel and cranked +with a windlass. It takes some time to load and fire. +%%%% arrow A long shafted projectile intended to be shot with a short- or longbow, fletched @@ -404,11 +409,6 @@ corpse A corpse. You can butcher it to produce edible meat chunks. %%%% -crossbow - -A piece of machinery used for firing bolts, which takes some time to load and -fire. It does very good damage in combat. -%%%% crystal ball of energy A magical device which can be used to restore one's reserves of magical energy, @@ -601,6 +601,11 @@ hand axe A small axe. %%%% +hand crossbow + +A compact piece of machinery, used for firing bolts. It takes some time to load +and fire. +%%%% hat A cloth or leather hat. @@ -1427,6 +1432,12 @@ trident A fishing spear improved with a longer shaft and a three-pronged metal head. %%%% +triple crossbow + +Initially designed as a siege weapon and then scaled down, this crossbow uses +three strings arranged in series to provide exceptional power. It takes a +considerable amount of time to load and fire. +%%%% trishula A blessed trident moulded by cleansing flame, with three points symbolising the |