ARENA From: carl@gergo.tamu.edu (Carl D. Perkins) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1993 00:12:00 +0000 I hate to sound like I don't like the game ('cause I do), but here's another problem... I freqently (roughly half the bouts) have no idea of what weaponry or armor my opponent is using - in Vance's opening statements he gives nothing but the opponent's name. Then, half way into round 2, I finally find out the guy is uing a 2 handed sword or whatever from the attack descriptions and I never find out what kind of armor he was wearing. Makes it rather difficult to tell what is effective and what is not when you don't know the basics of the situation like what armor the other guy was wearing. No way to tell if you didn't get him because he has lots of Constitution, you inflicted less damage than you thought, or becasue he was wearing good (really good - it's invisible!) armor. A lot of the attack result messages are rather silly - blunt weapons that cut and whatnot. A lot of this could be avoided by separating the messages into groups based on what the weapon's attack type is. --- Carl (Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd) Referenced By Up