Forum:A bit disappointed with 3.6.0, anyone?

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Who here doesn't like some of the things they've done with 3.6.0?

I don't like that, for some reason, I can't use #kick anymore. I play NAO on a laptop without a numberpad, so when I find a locked door and I don't have an axe or pick, I literally have to turn numberpad on, kick the door down with "k", then turn it back off so I can move. It's ridiculous!

Also, it seems like they added a lot of features just for the sake of adding stuff. I haven't seen anything that improves playability! #Terrain is a cool feature, and it might be kinda helpful later in the game, but it seems like it would fit better in a game like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup than in Nethack.

And #tip, which empties a container onto the floor, seems like a broken feature: having both hands stuck to a cursed weapon is something you have to be very careful to avoid in the late game. Now, you can get items out of sacks without using your hands, severely reducing the challenge there. The same goes for making the vibrating square a trap.

On the other hand, Elbereth is now broken! It no longer does half of the things we counted on it doing. Magic resistance is now more rare, farming is nerfed, and lord knows what else!

Part of what made 3.4.3 truly great was the carefully tuned difficulty level! You can't just change things randomly and expect it to be as good as the last version!

Anyone have any thoughts they'd like to add to this? Any experience playing the new version?

JMarieStanton (talk) 17:21, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

For what it's worth, you can used ctrl-D to kick; #kick was a relatively recent patch on NAO only anyway; it's not part of vanilla AFAIK. Wooble (talk) 17:28, 18 December 2015 (UTC)