Silver Serpents in U7?

[Adamantyr]

Hey, did anyone ever find any code supporting silver serpents somewhere in Britannia? They're listed in the original documentation, but I have NEVER found a single snake anywhere.

Since the Exult team have studied the usecode back and forth, maybe they can offer some insight into this.

Adamantyr

[Warder]

Add the giant centipedes to this list

[drcode]

I generally studied the usecode when things went wrong, so I probably only looked at 10% of it.

[Adamantyr]

Ah, thanks, DrCode. I take that to mean "I wasn't looking for it, and I didn't see it regardless." Which is cool, even an older game like U7 is too monstrous in size to examine every small detail.

Still, I'm wondering if they're unimplemented. As Warder pointed out, giant centipedes are also listed but not seen. And then again, giant scorpions are in the game and they're not in the book, hmm... seems the manual publish predated some changes.

If the usecode is scripted, can you do a generalized search for them? I assume monsters have names in the code for referencing, do entries exist for them? Does artwork exist for them?

Adamantyr

[SB-X]

The identifiers in usecode that you would search for were all stripped out in the shipped usecode file. The only strings you have to look in are those that get printed or said, and most monsters don't have any text like that which would identify them. (Silver Snakes could've been an exception because they are "special")

[SB-X]

> The only strings you have

That should be "The only strings available".