Just doing some code diving and found an interesting quirk, never noticed this before:

If you have the pentagram and some armor, it seems the pentagram will not prevent your armor from being depleted when you take damage. So i guess a player typically go all gung-ho and lose all their armor while fighting with the pent.

Anyone else know about that? Is it a desirable feature for some reason? 

i first noticed it when kell and i were implementing the cross of deflection.
i'm not really sure if it's a bug or not. in a way, it makes sense as the pentagram is making your body invulnerable, but not the mundane armour you're wearing. in that case, it's working as intended. 

I've known that for 12 years or so!!

I'd say it's intentional. It makes the pent more of a temporary / tactical powerup. 

metlslime you are very distracted guy :) 

this is how the pent works. I thought it was logical. I knew it forever. 

 

I knew that pretty early on...

I can't see any gameplay advantage from it - bug. 

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i'm voting for no bug.. always seemed logical to me; both for the reason necros stated & also as it acts as a kind of tradeoff against using it when the player has a choice; as in, they can go bezerk with a close-up rocketlauncher for 30 seconds without risk of death, but will be weakened by the end of it.

you probably noticed godmode does the same... 

What necros said. 

my tendency is, not a bug. Magical protection for you, not necessarily your gear. Then again, I doubt that was the intention.

whatever works best. 

so now i have two choices, to wait and get another innovision gtx 470 card or get zotac gtx 470, that is cheeper to 50bucks and has 5 years warranty as opposite to inno3d (only) one year warranty, i've read some opinions about zotac vs inno3d, and it's seems that inno3d was(is) the wrong choice.

any suggestions, guys 

but q2's penta protects either HP and armor 

I think the same, is not a bug and in some places is much better then a 100 ht and a Ra 

Because of the way the code is written - it just seems like more of an oversight. Could be the left in intentionally though, like rocket jumping. 

Yeah, it doesn't look like it was intentional. 

EEK MY WALLET 

Anyone interested in a gift copy of The Path and Zombie Driver? ;) 

I now have 200 pairs I will never wear!
But I saved so much money, I simply could not resist!
They were on sale!


I really do not get that "oh haha now look at me, I just spend way too much money on crappy games, haha, I am such a silly goose, haha" mentality. What social mechanism triggers that? Is it about the collection/hoarding or rather market reflexes? 

Oh, you're just bitter because you're on Linux.

We don't buy every single game just because it's on sale, only the ones we're interested in to begin with. Usually Steam games are overpriced, but a 75% discount makes things worth considering.

Now, if I want a certain game which is now available in a pack that also includes games I already have, and which would still be half or even one third of the price this particular single game otherwise has, does buying it and giving away the spare copies of the other games for free make me a silly goose? So be it then. 

The Path 

I did not get extra copies of those two games when buying the pack. Guess it makes sense in this case. Sorry. 

I am obsessive compulsive when it comes to games. It's not cutesy really, it is pretty much an addiction. When games are cheap, I pick them up, even if I have just a passing interest. I have hoards of games that I have never even popped into a console or anything, I just have them because they were cheap and I thought they might be fun. I do intend to play them, not just collect them, but I rarely if ever get around to it (I just found out I had Metro 2033 on Steam, can't remember buying it though.) 

Zwiffle maby you buy it in a nonsober day :p 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZfmPREbTd8&feature=player_embedded

I saw this and it reminded me of madfox gifs =) 

this sort of generates QC code for monster frame macros. not really news worthy but it saves me time, which is why i wrote it. :)

http://shoresofnis.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/ne_qcstarter-released-1-0-0/