Polymorph other-bugged?

lunar

I can't get this spell to work. I am not sure if there is a scroll in the regular game, but a sorcerer can learn it and it does nothing at all. If the target saves, there is save vs polymorph message. If the target fails, there is no message, and nothing happens.

Incidentally, the wild surge that turns the caster into a squirrel (save vs polymorph negates) instantly CHUNKS the caster, and a neutral, uncontrollable squirrel appears in place of the caster. This is irreversible death. Whereas in the original, you turn into squirrel but are controllable, you get a huge penalty to STR, lose your attacks, and spell casting, for some duration. Squirrel form even has a paperdoll in inventory. It is not supposed to be instant-irreversible death by chunking.

Any ideas?

Vindsval

It indeed insta kill and spawn a squirrel now, but is working fine for me on enemy. Did you cast this spell on an undead or other enemy with death effect/polymorph immunity ?

lunar

Casting on a kobold, who has save vs polymorph of 15. It never works.

BTW, if you cast dispel magic on that squirrel, will it turn into the character? If it is a npc he can rejoin party, like, just been rescued from petrification? I somehow doubt it.

Jace

Here's the dealio. At first, you could spam shapeshifting abilities to constantly heal yourself. This was probably changed to prevent this abusing mechanic, but as an unfortunate side-effect, it introduced an issue where you would instantly die if you shapeshifted from a high HP/Constitution form to a lower HP/Constitution form.

This issue made polymorphing someone into a squirrel a complete mess. In my game, if I polymorph someone with my wand, it will instantly die and spawn an unselectable squirrel sprite. If you Dispel Magic on it, the enemy will reform back; dead and without loot whatsoever!

Tresset

Yes, the polymorph other effects were massively bugged but these bugs should be fixed in the next patch.