djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) (03/14/91)
I've finished playing SWORD both with and without the infinite-life cheat mode on. What I've found is that it requires a near-perfect game (no lives lost), 4 magic items (zap,zap,zap,shield) and a lot of patience to kill the wizard at the end. My question: Is there any more effective way of killing the wizard? Seems hard to believe that any HUMAN player could get past this point without the cheat. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dallas J. Hodgson | "These days, you have to be pretty | | Metaphor Computer Systems | technical before you can even | | Mountain View, Ca. | aspire to crudeness." | | USENET : djh@metaphor.com | - William Gibson | +============================================================================+ | "The views I express are my own, and not necessarily those of my employer" | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
quimbyjs@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Quimby) (03/14/91)
It is not hard to do. You just have to know when to kill him. First of all you have a time limit to kill him because if you wait to long he'll start firing his blue arrows at you which will cause death. The key is to listen for the music and the screen shaking. When this happens all you have to do is hit him in the star upon his head then he'll be dead. -Jeff
pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) (03/14/91)
djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes: >My question: Is there any more effective way of killing the wizard? Seems >hard to believe that any HUMAN player could get past this point without >the cheat. Don't use your 'zaps' until the end. Then use them all on the wizard. You can usually blow him away with normal fighting after that. I never did know about an 'infinite lives' cheat and was able to kill the wizard effectively after about a week of playing. When I stopped playing the game, it was my goal to try and kill the wizard without using any 'zaps'. I came close, but no cigar. -- "This special edition of The Gulf War will continue after these messages." -ABC Pete Ashdown pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com ...uunet!javelin.sim.es.com!pashdown