Biggest swarm of hive drones?

[CainMaris]

It's late in the game. I killed Lilith and have been using her house to store my stuff.

I just stepped out the door to take the flask of water to the tree, and at the crossroads I walked into a swarm of at least 32 hive drones.

I know there were at least that many because I used mass boil, and the message window only displayed results for 32 attacks.

Thanks goodness it was at night, and I was hidden in shadows, but because I was walking through the woods in the dark with no lights or magic, the result when I heard the buzzing noise and hit Tab was I almost fell out of my chair.

(Edit: waited for dawn to get this image. Here you go, JL. Some of them wandered away, and a couple more are hidden by the trees.)



Sheesh, I'm glad that didn't happen at a low level...

Third run through the game, and I've never seen anything like that.

Edit: And it repeats! Something be broken, I'm thinking, so never mind.

[Unclever title]

It's late in the game. I killed Lilith and have been using her house to store my stuff.

I just stepped out the door to take the flask of wate rto the tree, and at the crossroads I walked into a swarm of at least 32 hive drones.

I know there were at least that many because I used mass boil, and the message window only displayed results for 32 attacks.

Thanks goodness it was at night, and I was hidden in shadows, but because I was walking through the woods in the dark with no lights or magic, the result when I heard the buzzing noise and hit Tab was I almost fell out of my chair.

Sheesh, I'm glad that didn't happen at a low level...

Third run through the game, and I've never seen anything like that.

Edit: And it repeats! Something be broken, I'm thinking, so never mind.

"For the queeeeeeeen!"

I mean you did kill her. But that's an epic bug, and no pun was intended at all.

On the one hand a good source of xp.

[CainMaris]

"For the queeeeeeeen!"

I mean you did kill her. But that's an epic bug, and no pun was intended at all.

On the one hand a good source of xp.

Indeed. They seem to pile up at around eight every night I spend elsewhere, so I'm going to kill clean out the citadel and then camp for a while and see how big the swarm gets.

It sure makes Supernova and Mass Boil spectacular.

[elsol]

I saw that in one of my games.

I played one game where I plinked the drones no problem.

Then in my next game, i walked out of lilith's house and it was like "Bees The Revenge!".

I thought it had something do with the sequence of how I did the events since in the first game I cleared all the maps before doing the Queen Bee quest and in the second game all the drones were still alive when I offed the queen.

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We should have a 'picture' contest...

My two favorites so far are "The Killing Grounds"... I turned the crossroads outside of blackwater RED from Camp-Leveling.
My second favorite was "Riches"... I was bored so I didn't pick up any loot from Camp Leveling ... something like 30 bags of loot outside of Bordertown.

Revenge of the Bees would be funny too.

[CainMaris]

Screenshot or it didn't happen.

Thought someone might say that, so I saved the game right there. I have a screenshot for which I waited passively through half the night. A few of them dispersed; there's only 29 visible and 2 hidden in the trees.

I've uploaded it as swarm.bmp, How do I display it?

[Unclever title]

If it's already uploaded then put the address up like this: [img]TheAddressGoesHere[/img]

Then the image should be displayed in your post.

Otherwise do this: TheAddressGoesHere to link to the picture

Or this: SomeOtherWordOrPhrase

The Img and URL buttons can assist.

Finished URL examples:

http://www.google.com

Google


This may have been more info than was necessary but hey I had some free time.

[CainMaris]

Sorry, was unclear. The "Upload Attachmetn" function on these here messages seemed to upload the screenshot. My account shows no uploaded attachments. Alas.

I don't have an available presence online for putting it somewhere else to point to (if that syntax makes any sense).

Anyone know what gives with the attachments?

[Unclever title]

Don't know actually. I never used the upload attachment thing on these forums (or any forum for that matter), but I typically use imageshack. Hope that's helpful in some way.

[CainMaris]

Don't know actually. I never used the upload attachment thing on these forums (or any forum for that matter), but I typically use imageshack. Hope that's helpful in some way.

Thanks for the tip. Fixed the first post.
Apologies for the thickness.