Skip to last level of zone? No/Yes.

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Steven Aus
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Skip to last level of zone? No/Yes.

#1 Post by Steven Aus »

If the game considers you too high level for the early levels of a zone, I would ask if it could ask you no/yes, with no probably being the default. It is quite disconcerting to be thrown into the last level of a zone, sometimes straight into the boss' maw, especially since all the creatures from previous zones are still alive (and sometimes even get you a bit of experience). Besides, in most of the levels of this game (certainly in the lower experience levels where it is more possible to get overwhelmed if you skip the earlier parts of a zone), it is not advantageous to skip loot or the ability to score elemental damage, even if you don't get any XP for the actual kills.

I would consider this a simple and fantastic addition to the game. For those times when you ARE too high level and you want to do the last level of a zone first, you can still say yes. For all other times you could say no and start on level 1 as per usual.

Would you be able to implement this in the next version?

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#2 Post by 0player »

There are several addons that do that.

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#3 Post by Steven Aus »

Still, it would be a simple fix for DarkGod and well worth installing in the base game for the next version. Also, him putting it in would prevent issues, for example, like escorts being skipped if you don't complete the dungeon you start in as one of your first dungeons.

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Re: Skip to last level of zone? No/Yes.

#4 Post by Mankeli »

Steven Aus wrote:If the game considers you too high level for the early levels of a zone, I would ask if it could ask you no/yes, with no probably being the default. It is quite disconcerting to be thrown into the last level of a zone, sometimes straight into the boss' maw, especially since all the creatures from previous zones are still alive (and sometimes even get you a bit of experience). Besides, in most of the levels of this game (certainly in the lower experience levels where it is more possible to get overwhelmed if you skip the earlier parts of a zone), it is not advantageous to skip loot or the ability to score elemental damage, even if you don't get any XP for the actual kills.

I would consider this a simple and fantastic addition to the game. For those times when you ARE too high level and you want to do the last level of a zone first, you can still say yes. For all other times you could say no and start on level 1 as per usual.

Would you be able to implement this in the next version?
Yes, please! This would be an improvement on any difficulty but especially on higher difficulties. It's so tedious to have to go, for example, check out Heart of Gloom so that you don't get murdered later on when the game decides you are ready to face the withering thing with +700 damage shadows like 5 tiles away from you -while the upstairs (level 2) being even worse.

EDIT. Wait a minute, does this even work? I just teleported to the last level of the dungeon even when I had taken a sneak peak at the level 1 before. Doesn't matter, I'll support this anyway.
0player wrote:There are several addons that do that.
Yeah, better just quit all development right now.

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#5 Post by HousePet »

Isn't there an option in the options?
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#6 Post by Doctornull »

HousePet wrote:Isn't there an option in the options?
In the options of zOmnibus? Yeah.

In the main game's options? There didn't used to be.
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#7 Post by darkgod »

done
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#8 Post by Doctornull »

darkgod wrote:done
Nice.
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#9 Post by Mankeli »

Lé bestness.

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#10 Post by Lyoncet »

/swoon

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