From: douillar@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Douillard Pierre-Jean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: UW - Unarmed skill
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:54:44 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <13048@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> mitcha@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Mitch Aigner) writes:
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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.
>
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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$
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>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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>
>-- 
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>Disclaimer:
>The only opinions expressed here are those that my wife permits me to have.
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Ok ! You win! ;)

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