In spite of a way to heavy weekend I dragged myself uncomplicated to Larian studios this morning. Today I was planning to give some boss encounters in ACT 3 a little more “spunk” and that’s something I enormously obtain much pleasure from (grin).How does something like that happen then exactly? Well, the first time that I played ACT3, came I at a certain important moment in the tale where I met the powerful (and moreover splendid) witch Kiya had defeat in a duel.
I put myself ready for a heavy fight but the only impact that madam Kiya had on me was that I used the zoom function once more. With regard to fighting she wasn’t quite formidable: I ran to her, she beat once with her rod, I screamed "ai" and spitted her skull in 2 unequal halves. And here I come into the picture ; -) When they see me walking and grinning around in the corridor they know what time it is: Shrimpo has an other boss monster on his hands to mod. For Kiya I had considered the next sordid plan, as soon as she gets her "prey" in range, she teleports near him and starts with a quadruple elemental circle attack.
First she casts a fire circle, then water, then earth, and finally an air circle. Theire is no defence this way since you can’t have a high resistance against all elements at the same time. When the player gets too close to Kiya (to smack her on the nose) she just teleports a few meters behind the player. Their she begins to attack with her circle combo. Bwahaha, it's nasty..but not undefeatable because teleport spell require much energy, therefore Kiya must always load a couple seconds before teleporting and it's during those short periods she is extreem vulnerable ; -) (Do not tell anyone)
Once I know how she should react I go to Mike Slembrouck. This 24 year old freak from Oostkamp does all the AI that’s in the game and he really really loves it when I come around with a little paper full of gibberish ;-)
for the ultimate test we let the testers of today get acquainted with the new tactics. Guess which tester got to fight kiya?
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