ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

One benefit of playing a slinger is using a shield but counter strike only gives bonus damage off a melee hit.

If a slinger could block and get the bonus damage with their sling it would be nice

...might not make a whole lot of sense, though.

dual wielding slingers?

If block only gives bonuses from melee attacks (if that's what you meant), then why have my archer and mage characters been periodically counter-striked-effected due to spells and arrows? I assumed it was from enemies blocking my attacks.

I believe current version does it counterstrike for slings (it was on a recent changelog, if I recall correctly) but I don't know otherwise.

I was actually referring to the damage bonus which was only getting applied to melee attacks.

I was going to post a new thread to suggest this, but I see it's already been mentioned...

So I'm dredging this one back up to add my vote to it!

There's a natural synergy between sling and shield that I think should be supported in the way the counterstrike debuff works. Currently the debuff says it only applies to melee attacks, but this seems a bit arbitrary.

The distinction here is mode of attack, not distance. Why should a point blank sling attack be disadvantaged against a point blank melee weapon attack? And there are plenty of ways to get a ranged melee attack, why should those work and not a ranged sling attack?

I'd love to see this revised accordingly in a future update.

In the meantime, how hard is it to write mods for this platform? I cracked open the files recently to try to understand some skills etc, and it looked fairly readable. I like playing slingers, and I might give a mod a try to allow a more interesting sling and shield build if an update change for this one is unlikely. I take it there's a better way to mod besides just directly changing the program files?

It's very easy to modify ToME, but not necessary in this case. It looks like it is already in place: (~line 160) http://git.develz.org/?p=tome.git;a=blo ... f0;hb=HEAD

I (just) reported the debuff description, so it should be fixed by the next version.

EDIT: although, limiting it to range 1 could be interesting.

EDIT 2: yes, you can create addons for code modifications, http://te4.org/wiki/addons

Thanks, those are very helpful links! I checked for that bit of code in the version I'm running (b43) and it's there as well. Perfect!

Much appreciated