Achievement for Killing enemies with there own attacks.

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Crim, The Red Thunder
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Achievement for Killing enemies with there own attacks.

#1 Post by Crim, The Red Thunder »

Basically, this is one of the COOLEST things that (several) characters can do when confronted with an enemy that has fired some arrows, or a spell at them, and has foolishly allowed your character a turn to see it mid-air. Cast bone grab, mindhook, controlled phase door, and place the enemy that shot the attack in the path of the attack, watching the master skeleton archers arrows land in it's own back, not only protecting you from said attack, but killing the attacker themself! Many mages have spells that MIGHT stop midway through the air as well (Certain corrupter blight spells, among others), making this possible on them as well. Given the uniqueness of the method, and that multiple characters can do it, I'd like to see an achievement awarding this little bit of cleverness, after you've pulled it off a few dozen times. (20? 50? 100? Decide for yourself.)

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Re: Achievement for Killing enemies with there own attacks.

#2 Post by Grey »

Neat idea! Just 3 or 4 times is enough, I think. Achievement should be called "Stop hitting yourself!"
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Re: Achievement for Killing enemies with there own attacks.

#3 Post by Crim, The Red Thunder »

Actually, since I typically do it with Bone grab, I was thinking 'Yoink!!', but yours probably work better, since you can do it without 'pulling' a target (phase door). Based the numbers on other special kill achievements. (Swallow and skullcracker mostly, but anything works. I just like the idea.) Would there be detection issues though? I wouldn't want the achivement to pop up because some skeleton mage zapped it's compatriots, rather then you actually earning it properly... That was what someone brought up in chatlog that it might be hard to get the program to check for...
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Re: Achievement for Killing enemies with there own attacks.

#4 Post by Sradac »

you can check the damage source and see if it originates from the target maybe.

Although im not sure how that would work with things like reflection shields, if the source is still the original actor or if it "becomes" the player when they reflect the damage.

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Re: Achievement for Killing enemies with there own attacks.

#5 Post by tromboneandrew »

It might be a bit easier to do this as a boss-kill achievement, instead of a general-kill achievement. The Spellblaze Crystal is probably one of the best bosses to do this with.

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