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- From: mitcha@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Mitch Aigner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: UW - Unarmed skill
- Message-ID: <13048@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 21:02:56 GMT
- Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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- <<< In article 25830, douillar@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Douillard Pierre-Jean) writes:
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- >> I've just read the Complete Walk-Through (by Mitch Aigner) for Ultima
- >> Underworld (ver 1.5) from GameByte.
-
- << stuff deleted >>
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- >> There's one point althought, that seems funny to me. In the mentra section,
- >> there's a lot of comments on which mentra to chant. And one of them says:
- >>
- >> Chant Skill IMHO
- >> _____ _____ ____
- >> ORA Unarmed worthless
- >>
- >> When I played the game, I had used only three skills (mostly):
- >> Attack, Defense and Unarmed (because I love martial arts!).
- >>
- >> And with those three skills, I managed to get rid of every nasty encounter
- >> with my bare hands (2 or 3 blows each time!). And I rarely been hurt
- >> badly. So no armors were needed nor weapons since I was a weapon and an
- >> armor! ;)
- >>
- >> I don't think Unarmed is truly wothless.
- >>
- >> Just my 0.02$
-
- Pierre-Jean,
-
- In my Walkthrough you will notice that I made sure to add the
- appropriate disclaimer ahead of this section, clearly stating that these
- recommendations were "In My Humble Opinion (which is bound to be different
- from yours, or anyone elses)". Direct quote.
- However, in light of your discovery, I may consider upgrading my opinion
- of UNARMED to "mostly worthless" :-)
- Actually, it has been previousely pointed out to me that UNARMED skill
- has another handy use: bashing down doors. If you use any weapon to bash down
- a door, the weapon will get quickly damaged (rendering it useless). This does
- not seem to be the case when you use your hands. So if you have a really cool
- weapon, and you would rather not get it damaged (considering what you probably
- had to go through to get it), just drop the weapon and use your hands if you
- need to break down any doors (which you WILL need to do on occasion).
- BTW, my ratings of the relative values of the skills were all relative.
- It would be nice to maximize all of the possible skills, but you only have so
- many wishes at the Shrines. Therefore, you will have to sacrifice proficiency
- in some skills in order to maximize your abilities in more "important" ones.
- Clearly, our opinions vary as to just what is "important".
-
- However, since I'M right and you're wrong, since MY religion is correct
- and yours isn't, since MY politics are flawless and yours are flawed, and since
- God is on MY side, not yours,... I think my opinion carries more weight (at
- least it pleases my to think so). So there ! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
-
- Mitch Aigner
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