From: mitcha@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Mitch Aigner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: UW - UNARMED skill worthless ???
Date: 17 Dec 92 00:28:22 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.


                                                                           
                                                                         
                                                                        
"" Pierre-Jean Douillard writes:
                                                                           
""   <<<Stuff deleted>>>
""   <<< Stuff about Mitch Aigner rating "UNARMED" skill as worthless  >>>
""   <<< in now-famous Walkthrough for Ultima Underworld  :-)          >>>
"" 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 worthless.
                                                                          
" Bob Tausworthe writes:
                                                                           
"  <<< Stuff deleted >>>
"I walked naked into the abyss and stayed naked and unarmed (can you imagine 
"what all those NPC's thought about this crazy naked guy running through
"the caverns) and finished the whole game that way. NO ARMOR, NO WEAPONS.
"     "UNARMED is basically like having an excellent condition weapon that
"     CANNONT BE DAMAGED!!!"
"     Plus it has the quickness of a sward, the damage of a mace, and allows
"     you to carry alot more things because it is very light :-)
"That's right, the game writers did not add special code/whatever to handle 
"the player temporarily or even permanently damaging one of his/her hands, so
"you can bash all day at a wall, or high level player and NEVER loose the
"excellent condition of your weapon. TRY FINDING THAT ON LEVELS 1-6.
"I killed Garamon's Brother in 4 blows with my UNARMED FIST. I killed the
"Chaotic Knight in 3. 
                                                                       
                                                                     
                                                                    
Okay, okay,... I give up.
Don't hit me any more.

The Underworld walkthrough (version 1.6) will be changed as follows:

"ORA    Unarmed   Need LOTS if you prefer not to carry a weapon **"
"** - The game CAN be won without the use of weapons or armor"

This Freedom of Speech nonsense has gotten way out of hand. Why can't you
people give me a break and just submit to my petty authority.

                                                    Mitch Aigner       
                                                                     
                                                                   
                                                                   


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