Bug Reports (alpha 2.1)

[hairybolox]

No worries Variaz - just thought i'd ask as it's getting a bit tiresome jumping between levs 57 & 59 ;-)

[hairybolox]

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but found a fantastic "green" staff but it has an attribute to reflect magical attacks of -6568 !!!

Does this mean it attracts magic attacks ?? Or just a bug ?

I'm dying to use it, but if it amplifies magic its gonna get tossed....

[Variaz]

Most likely, it's going to make the game crash when you get a spell cast at you...

It's a bug.

[hairybolox]

Thanks V thats what I thought....
Typical.... first green found, its a real doosey and I can't use it.....

[Variaz]

If you really want, equip it, save your game, then somewhere in passive.lua, somewhere in a function that is called often(like calc_body_bonus), use:

inven(INVEN_WIELD).reflect = 0

Then load your game, move around, see if the reflection is gone. Save again, go back in passive.lua, remove the line of code, and then restart your game.

Not much of a cheat, more about not letting a bug spoil your fun.

[hairybolox]

Thank you - i've tried it & you frightened the life out of me as I forgot to unweld all my kit before hand & it removed all the magic reflections from my welded kit (which it was meant to do) But after removing it all came back....

Next time I die i'll retry it with the staff enabled - once again many thanks !!!

[hairybolox]

Sorry V it didn't work..... thanks for trying tho

[hairybolox]

update - it did remove the reflection bonus totally....

[random]

Well, I just wielded an amulet of the magi as my primary attack weapon. The sequence went something like: unequip primary weapon (flail), unequip secondary weapon (dagger), equip red staff (for intel bonus to cast Twist spell), accidentally try to equip amulet instead of primary weapon, voila! wielding amulet as weapon.

I did not, unfortunately, think to attack someone with it.

[Variaz]

Interesting!

It would probably have worked if you tried attacking... with 1d1 base damage. So yeah, not too strong.

[Variaz]

Jun 23, 2011 10:57:48 GMT -5 khan said:

Getting the crash again in the flow when I go through a portal. Seems to be happening at level 60 or below if that's any help.

I've found what causes this bug. It's not just the Flow, but depth 60+ in general. And it's not related to the dungeon level, but to a bug with high level Boss monsters. (which are more likely to appear in later dungeon levels, obviously)

It's due to the fact that it tries to assign abilities. There are now only three possible abilities for bosses, but the game still looks for up to 4 abilities. So if the enemy is high enough level, it will enter an infinite loop.

You can easily fix it. Open monsters.lua, and search for "Boss abilities.". Then look a bit below for this line:

if (abnum > 4) then abnum = 4 end

And replace it by:

if (abnum > 3) then abnum = 3 end

And that should fix it.