More Awesome Than You!

Just as the title asks, I'm wondering if anyone knows if that awful werewolf walk that makes them look like a zombified monkey can be fixed so they walk normally and if it can - has someone made a fix for it?

I've searched MTS2 and InSIM; I found nothing at MTS2 and a request for a fix at InSIM that never got any replies, not even a "sorry but that can't be fixed" reply. I'm not sure where else to look, those 2 and this site are the only Sims 2 sites I usually visit for hack related content.

What's the point in having a werewolf if you don't have the characteristics that make it one? It would be like a zombie without the shuffle. Sad.

That walk annoys me too.  I don't play zombies or werewolves though.  :P

I've not had a werewolf yet. Plenty of wolves though.

Werewolves would NOT shamble like an ape.  They would walk like a dog, not hobble from leg to leg.

Im with Pandagirl..whats the point in being a werewolf if you dont amble?  I think they should do other things to though... like sniff butts like dogs do,  scratch fleas,  lift legs etc..... :P

I like the werewolf amble and zombie lurch right up until the point when I try to play said type of sims.  Then it gets really annoying.  Although zombies are a whole magnitude of annoying above werewolves; at least werewolves are fast.

The werewolf amble runs somewhere speedwise between walk and run. As a walk, it's faster than the regular-walk, but as a run, it's slower than the regular run.

I don't mind the walk so much either... :P but the fact that the males' hair changes really irks me.

That reminds me (sorry for hijacking), I have an annoying Zombe-Plantsim who lurches around the garden, macro-farming.  And I'm getting really annoyed by his groaning.
Fine!  Zombies groan!  but does he have to groan and talk at the same time?  How does that work?  He's like chatting away at the trees going "Ho-ho borfin dorfin, gaaaahrgh, de-ragudy, uuuohrg!"

Yes, actually. In cases where zombies have been known to talk, they often groan: BRAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIINS!

It's the "borfin dorfin" I'd like to get rid of.  Zombies should stick to "Braaaains!"  Even when talking to plants.

Which of course explains why the heroine has to trip over a tree root in the forest so that the shamblingly slow ab-human creature can catch her,   for the eating of brains.

I would think that would make the plants turn into Cow Plants.

Mine stick to "Cheese!" Somehow I think this would be less disturbing when talking to plants, but more disturbing to the cake-loving monster.

And here I thought it came from using Dex as a dump stat. Although what they were using instead, I can't imagine. They certainly didn't invest it in Int or Wis, and Str/Con/Cha seemed dubious at best.

Just for those of you who were confused:

Dex=Dexterity
Int=Intellect
Wis=Wisdom
Str=Strength
Con=?
Cha=Charisma

I will not, however, tell you where these are from.

Con = Constitution.

I had to reread what Pescado said, cause when I read it last night it didn't even occur to me that he'd need translating... I think I'm a dork.  :-X

Ah.  That's right.

I haven't palyed in a while so it didn't come to me.

Can also be replaced with Sta but only in rip-offs.

Or just regular old Def.

But in some cases, Def is usually the end result of adding Arm on top of Con.  But not all.

It occurs to me that if someone needed this translation, they wouldn't know what a "dump stat" is anyway, so what good does it do to translate the abbreviations?

Back in the day when I played with this Game Which Must Not Be Named, the hapless heroine would have failed a save vs. paralyzation/poison, which was often used in various situations as a generic save.  Since she would probably have been a 0-Level NPC, this would have made her chances of falling on the root in question almost guaranteed.  Dex would not have been a factor, unless the DM was free-thinking and open-minded and allowed a Dex mod to the save.  I'm not really that old yet, am I?

As for the werewolf walking, I don't mind so much.  What is terribly disappointing is that they stop the wacky walk to go up or down stairs and such.  What the heck is up with that?  If they can walk normal on stairs, why not all the time?  I just think that if they must have an outrageous gait, then they should also have a unique way of negotiating stairs.  Personally, I would much rather see a fix for that than see them just walk like normals all the time, although I admit that just having it one way or the other would be preferable to the way it is now.  Zombies have the same problem, and it makes the game execution seem sort of unprofessional, incomplete, and lacking.  (I should just say half-assed)

I thought the traditional dexterity save, if you didn't go with a simple dex check, was Breath Weapon.

I'm sure this could be, or at least it could be argued, in which case it would make the falling even more likely.  I don't remember using 'breath weapon' in such a way, but then again I don't remember much from the '70-80's with any clarity.  I think we used the 'paralyzation/poison' save as generic because it was easiest to roll.  Back then, everyone seemed to have their own ways of doing things, and 'house rules' were the 'rule of the day'.

Just to stay on topic, I think that somewhere, someone, a long time ago made a fix for the Uni-walk that a lot of people hated.  It might have been on MTS2, but I'm not sure because it did not interest me.  It might be worth it to check.

Do you mean the Young Adult Walk & Lazy Animations Fixes (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,1187.0.html)? It's TwoJeffs'.

You could be right on there...I really had no idea who had done it, and I thought it was possible it was at MTS2.  Did TwoJeffs never post hacks there in the past?  I do believe there were some there at one time.  I could be wrong, though, it has happened before.

Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.

I despise the werewolf walk...  If it was actually a decent animation it'd be great, but I find it really choppy.  They carry dishes like they'd just spill everything off of it, yet walk normal on steps and when carrying babies / toddlers.   ???

I too have always disliked the warewolf loping.  Therefore I just finished a mod to eliminate it from the world: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=234272

Ahhh!  The 80's!  That "game that must not be named" meant a lot to me back then.  I married my DM.  LMAO!!

I hate the Werewolf walk, too.   :P  It annoys the crap out of me.  I always see my "wolfies" as some sort of strong, dexterious Hollywood movie monster, not some staggering, stumbling freakish creature.  I have really been dispapointed with them. 

80s? Shit, I wasn't even BORN till the end of the 80s, and I enjoy the game as well ^^  oldie