Exult Forum

Forgive me is this has been answered before.

My favorite weapon in the game is likely the Magic Axe, but inevitably I keep losing them. It goes flying off in combat, and many times my party members run off screen, throw it away, and I don't even see that it is laying somewhere. Then I save my game, and it is gone.

This isn't a problem with Exult specifically as I recall the problem happening when I first played the game ages ago.

Is there a good way to fix this?

It somehow tends to end in your enemies' bodies. I'm not sure, but i think that if the axe delivers the killing blow, it appears in the corpse.

im betting its linked with the monsters tossing smith hammers somehow

The problem is that when the corpse disappears, the axe disappears as well.

And it has been a while since I last played, but I think it also ends up on the ground occassionally when the game can't figure out how to "boomerang" it back to the user.

meaning im right, and sometimes your characters just throw it rather than attack with it

just like the hammers.. finally a reason for that problem to be fixed >.>

Lol. I think I complained about smith hammers a *long* time ago ...

~ Wizardry Dragon

I have an experience with disappearing juggernaut hammer as well. I had my whole party armed with them at the end of the serpent isle, I was fighting some monster, as the hammers simultaneously left their hands, I saved, reloaded from that save file and no hammer returned.

But.. i thought the magic axe and the J. Hammer were supposed to work like boomerangs always... Yet the disappearing problem was very common even in the original. I always checked on them after a battle to see if they vanished. If so, they always end up on one of the corpses...

Of course that isn't very fun, so i tend not to use those weapons anymore.

They'd often just get stuck, too. More than once I'd been using them when flying creatures attacked, and afterwards the axes/hammers were stuck lying on top of buildings, mountains, etc.

Neutronium Dragon

in the original, I remember never losing a single Juggernaut Hammer in Blackgate so I had a few party members permanently equipped with them. While on SerpentIsle they tended to disappear somehow, so I stopped using them.