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Post by aku on Feb 7, 2010 14:43:24 GMT -5
The skill shard screen looks really funny when all characters are present (after the war). Especially on Willis and Vixen. I'm talking about the screen with portraits of characters to choose from. Hover over these two and look for yourself. BTW the party maker screen works ok.
In the conversation with the fire god (don't remember his new name), his name is missing the right bracket. Aethus or something.
And finally I think this happened before in older versions but some monsters can deal a Counter Blow for like tens of thousands damage yet they didn't become enraged or anything. It happened to me so far on Asterion in East Tower and that fire elemental looking guy in Vanguard, but there could be more.
Edit. One more. When Drakeor's first three dragon skills do 660 damage the ice dragon's description says 2660. A typo I guess.
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Post by DJC on Feb 8, 2010 19:18:17 GMT -5
The skill shard screen looks really funny when all characters are present (after the war). Especially on Willis and Vixen. I'm talking about the screen with portraits of characters to choose from. Hover over these two and look for yourself. BTW the party maker screen works ok. I don't know what "funny" means, but I'm assuming that means there's an error with the display, probably the picture coordinates are incorrect and graphics are displaying out of line. I suppose I'll see for myself. Is it only Willis and Vixen who have portrait display problems, and only when hovering over them? I'll get the typo and the name omission. Counter Blow definitely had some problems in older versions. I thought I fixed most of those when I redid the coding for the special attacks, but it's easy to make mistakes considering the volume of things that had to be copied+pasted and then manually adjusted. I have to know the exact battles (monsters, location, and formation) to take a look at each case where this special attack malfunctions because it requires variable trackers that have to be initialized at the start of battle. If these get set wrong (such as to a different monster) then the algorithm won't function correctly. Also, Counter Blow can legitimately break the 9,999 damage cap since some monsters multiply the damage you dealt them (such as x2 or x3) before returning it. There are also plenty of monsters who use Counter Blow as a regular attack, either randomly or part of a pattern. I believe Asterion and the Flame enemy in Auctus are examples of monsters who use Counter Blow not just as a counterattack but a regular attack. |
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Post by aku on Feb 10, 2010 7:48:07 GMT -5
Looks like this for "cirigon war" characters:  And for Willis and Vixen:  Also: the "green book notice" in Revirdok stays active despite the fact that the book was already taken in the past. |
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Post by servelat on Feb 10, 2010 16:05:53 GMT -5
Also: the "green book notice" in Revirdok stays active despite the fact that the book was already taken in the past. I had that not only in Revirdok, but in almost every other place with the books i had already collected collected |
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Post by DJC on Feb 10, 2010 18:19:47 GMT -5
I'll be sure to check the book thing too. It sounds familiar, like maybe I had it on a previous bug list and forgot to fix it, or did not correctly address it.
Just to clarify, the Party Maker displays correctly for the war BEFORE you get Willis and Vixen, correct? And then the errors occur once you have all ten characters?
I know I made some changes to the SS display in the last patch and that's probably where these problems stem from.
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Post by aku on Feb 12, 2010 12:45:11 GMT -5
That's right. Before Willis and Vixen come in everything works ok.
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Post by aku on Feb 14, 2010 9:17:05 GMT -5
One more thing. I managed to inflict burning (or frozen) condition on the Zombie Dragon with my Partizan spear. It did 14000 damage per action.  Also: Glen's skill scroll Zealous Blades is greyed out, yet I have sword equipped. |
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Post by DJC on Feb 14, 2010 14:34:37 GMT -5
One more thing. I managed to inflict burning (or frozen) condition on the Zombie Dragon with my Partizan spear. It did 14000 damage per action. Also: Glen's skill scroll Zealous Blades is greyed out, yet I have sword equipped. The Zealous Blades bug is a known issue due to the fix I had to make for the magic shield and elemental shield spells to work in tandem correctly. Just a wrong tag, but it prevents you from using Zealous Blades. I'll get it in the next patch. The thing with the Zombie Dragon, I'm not sure if I put that in there intentionally as a super weakness Drakeor can ONLY exploit if you make the effort to get the Partisan, or if it's an incorrect condition tag. I'll have to think about whether to change it or not. It's very overpowered but kind of neat. |
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Post by aku on Feb 15, 2010 4:28:19 GMT -5
You asked about specific monsters, who use Counter Blow with 100000+ damage so here is one: the boss after Virdis Mons (Flidais or something).
It's basically an instakill attack and at this point in game I can live with this I guess.
Also: some more on skill shard screen issues. I think there's some problem with the instant mode, because I switched it off and now skill shards screen works normal. I even switched it back on and it's still normal.
Fortunately I have an early save with bug still active so tell me if you need it.
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Post by DJC on Feb 15, 2010 14:53:57 GMT -5
You asked about specific monsters, who use Counter Blow with 100000+ damage so here is one: the boss after Virdis Mons (Flidais or something). It's basically an instakill attack and at this point in game I can live with this I guess. Also: some more on skill shard screen issues. I think there's some problem with the instant mode, because I switched it off and now skill shards screen works normal. I even switched it back on and it's still normal. Fortunately I have an early save with bug still active so tell me if you need it. Yes, the insta-load mode is where I made the changes to not just Skill Shards but several other systems. That is where I intend to look when I start working on the patch (probably middle to late March during spring break). I'll take a look at Flidais too. Sometimes the tracking for the Counterblow variables makes a mistake, however, due to the engine not always running battle events pages precisely when it's supposed to, and there's nothing I can do about that. This is how bad calculations results and you get incorrect numbers and massive damage. |
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Post by aku on Mar 9, 2010 13:37:28 GMT -5
One more thing: the elven cloak has 0 defense.
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Post by DJC on Mar 9, 2010 14:40:13 GMT -5
One more thing: the elven cloak has 0 defense. That's actually intentional and consistent with the item description. The Elven Cloak instead allows increased evasion of enemy physical attacks, and since this item can be used by many heroes, it's a huge advantage. The zero defense was meant to balance it against other armors. |
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Post by aku on Mar 10, 2010 13:03:17 GMT -5
One more thing: the elven cloak has 0 defense. That's actually intentional and consistent with the item description. The Elven Cloak instead allows increased evasion of enemy physical attacks, and since this item can be used by many heroes, it's a huge advantage. The zero defense was meant to balance it against other armors. Yeah, but you can get mist cloaks much earlier in the game which also have evade+ and 40 defense on top of that. So what's the point of wearing elven? |
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Post by DJC on Mar 10, 2010 18:31:17 GMT -5
Yeah, but you can get mist cloaks much earlier in the game which also have evade+ and 40 defense on top of that. So what's the point of wearing elven? There's only two Mist Robes in the game, and many players will probably miss them or sell them. They can also only be used by: Meredith, Julia, Vixen, and Vetu. In contrast, you can buy as many Elven Cloaks as you want, and everyone can use them except Drakeor. So few items have Evade+, and it's so useful that I considered the Elven Cloak balanced compared to alternatives. |
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