[bug]Recruiting Shar-Teel

barbara

I found two minor bugs regarding recruiting Shar-Teel to your party.

How to reproduce:
1. Start a new game with Abdel.
2. C:MoveToArea("AR3500"); // Mutamin's Garden
3. C:CreateCreature("Minsc");
4. Ctrl-q Minsc into your party.

Bug 1:
5. Hurt Abdel to 6/12 HP in some way.
6. Talk to Shar-Teel and challenge her to a fight.
7. If Shar-Teel's attack kills Abdel (which only happens sometimes), she will continue attacking Minsc.

What should happen:
Since Shar-Teel challenged the main character only to a duel, she shouldn't attack Minsc afterwards.

Bug 2:
5. Hurt Abdel to 1/12 HP in some way.
6. Talk to Shar-Teel and challenge her to a fight.
7. She will instantly quit the fight and say something that indicates she won the fight.

What should happen:
Since the duel was for one hit, the duel shouldn't end before it even started.

Mathsorcerer

barbara said:

Bug 1:
5. Hurt Abdel to 6/12 HP in some way.
6. Talk to Shar-Teel and challenge her to a fight.
7. If Shar-Teel's attack kills Abdel (which only happens sometimes), she will continue attacking Minsc.

What should happen:
Since Shar-Teel challenged the main character only to a duel, she shouldn't attack Minsc afterwards.

Bug 2:
5. Hurt Abdel to 1/12 HP in some way.
6. Talk to Shar-Teel and challenge her to a fight.
7. She will instantly quit the fight and say something that indicates she won the fight.

What should happen:
Since the duel was for one hit, the duel shouldn't end before it even started.

On the first, it shouldn't matter--the death of the protagonist ends the game.

On the second, the script that triggers Shar-Teel's victory happens if her current health is 75% or greater of her maximum health and the challenger's health total is less than 50% so in this set of circumstances she is correctly victorious.

barbara

@Mathsorcerer
I understand that, although the behaviour is weird, the death of the protagonist probably doesn't matter. Fixing all those bugs where NPCs do weird things when the protagonist dies would not be feasible.

Although I do think the Shar-Teel victory script is flawed. How can she win a duel without the protagonist being hit? Some players challenging Shar-Teel have a hard time figuring out that she won instantly because the HP was low to start with.

Mathsorcerer

I don't disagree with your assessment; I was merely reporting the facts of her script. There are many improvements that could be made to all sorts of scripts but doing so would take even a handful of people months to correct. As such, random individuals like me fix only the ones with glaring errors that just make you scratch your head in bewilderment thinking "why would that character/creature act like that?".

Balquo

If Shar-Teel kills the StrongestOfMale during the duel then she will automatically attack the next strongest. If there are no males left then she will forever do nothing and can no longer be interacted with. You would need to resurrect him and she would continue attacking as if the duel never ended.

Anyway, I've fixed the bugs but have no idea when they'll get put into a patch.