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Snakes....

    • 120 posts
    June 28, 2015 2:16 PM PDT

    Most of you will have no clue what the hell I'm talking about, but I assure you Aradune does, just ask him....

    My wife and I talked it over and we decided that we have to suggest that if nothing else from the EQ 1 original version makes it into Patheon, the one thing that no game can be successful without is Snakes that Kick!

    Yes, I realize that it was an anomaly created by the technology of the day, but trust me, you have not lived until you've been kicked to death by a snake.

    It defies every sense of reason and logic and yet, after years of seeing that, you really find that without it there is something very very wrong when you attack a snake and it doesn't kick.

     

    • 9115 posts
    June 28, 2015 3:26 PM PDT
    Castwell said:

    Most of you will have no clue what the hell I'm talking about, but I assure you Aradune does, just ask him....

    My wife and I talked it over and we decided that we have to suggest that if nothing else from the EQ 1 original version makes it into Patheon, the one thing that no game can be successful without is Snakes that Kick!

    Yes, I realize that it was an anomaly created by the technology of the day, but trust me, you have not lived until you've been kicked to death by a snake.

    It defies every sense of reason and logic and yet, after years of seeing that, you really find that without it there is something very very wrong when you attack a snake and it doesn't kick.

     

    Yeah this has been brought up several times before ;)


    https://www.pantheonrotf.com/forums/topic/1610/you-have-been-slain-by-a-moss


    This post was edited by VR-Mod1 at June 30, 2015 10:08 AM PDT
    • 120 posts
    June 28, 2015 3:45 PM PDT

    It's like auto attack being bound to the "A" key..... Ya just had to be there. At the same time, those were the things that sucked you in just that much more,...... and you never noticed..addicting really...

    • 2138 posts
    June 28, 2015 4:25 PM PDT

    If I may reference a popular cultural (pop-culture) example in support of this: Kung Fu Panda Disney movie. 

    The Lucy Liu voiced character was a snake, and the whipping of the tail forward in a snap- I believe is a good representation of a snake, kicking.

    • 49 posts
    June 29, 2015 7:08 AM PDT
    Always loved the loading screen. Teaching snakes to kick...
    • 91 posts
    June 29, 2015 12:02 PM PDT

    If snakes can kick, then boots should be in their loot table...

    • 1434 posts
    June 29, 2015 2:35 PM PDT

    I want to see a kung-fu snake boss mob.

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    • 587 posts
    June 29, 2015 9:11 PM PDT

    Kicking Snakes are part of the grand vision and we will launch with them.

    • 5 posts
    June 30, 2015 12:09 PM PDT

    I think there was something similar with Willowisp, backstab maybe ?

     

    • 51 posts
    July 11, 2015 5:11 PM PDT
    Castwell said:

    It's like auto attack being bound to the "A" key..... Ya just had to be there. At the same time, those were the things that sucked you in just that much more,...... and you never noticed..addicting really...

     

    Oh, believe me everyone noticed when five minutes into the their first day they hail an npc, and...


    An npc tells you, "Greetings adventurer! I have a [quest] for you."

    You say, "wha--"

    LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...


    You stare at the screen in disbelief wondering what the hell just happened. Welcome to EverQuest, newbie!


    It gives me warm fuzzies thinking about those days. :D

    • 114 posts
    July 14, 2015 4:54 PM PDT

    All I needed to read was your title ... "Snakes" ... and 10 to 1 I just *knew* what it was about.  

    lol ... Yeah, I "won" that bet. haha.

     

     

    Something that would be awesome, if not mean, is have one or two zones which would be the "next step away from the newbie zone" where we could equip humanoid mobs with cheapo weapons.  ala Velious.

    • 124 posts
    March 26, 2016 9:52 AM PDT

    Aradune said:

    Kicking Snakes are part of the grand vision and we will launch with them.

     

    YESSSSS!!! this is sooo needed!

    • 368 posts
    March 26, 2016 2:06 PM PDT

    Snakeskin Boots of Agility (+5 to Kick)

    • 308 posts
    March 26, 2016 4:55 PM PDT

    Anistosoles said:

    Snakeskin Boots of Agility (+5 to Kick)

     

    if nothing else then this would be a great easter egg as homage to EQ (even if there is no kick skill in game)

     

    or it could just be

     

    Snakeskin Boots

    Dex +2

     

    These Boots were made from the Skin of the deadly Moss Snake.

    Ancient tales say that wearing these can help you learn the skill of Kicking!

    • 1095 posts
    March 26, 2016 9:32 PM PDT

    Aradune said:

    Kicking Snakes are part of the grand vision and we will launch with them.