Mage Spell (lvl 3) Lightning Bolt

wizzywazzo

Howdy all,

I just started up a sorc play through and noticed something interesting about the lvl 3 lightning spell. It only damages the enemy when at a distance. If the enemy is on top of you, it will pass through him and deal no damage. Anybody else notice this behavior? In the spell description it does not mention minimum distance to be effective. I am wondering if this is a bug or not.

kjeron

This spells projectile was been completely broken in IWDEE(v1.3/1.4), BG2EE(v1.3+), and BGEE(v2.0+).

The latest beta of BGEE(v2.5.15.1) has fixed some of it's issues, but not all.

It's current projectile "lightb.pro" is incorrectly setup as AoE, causing it to easily bypass the first target, and the sub-projectile it fires afterwards has no "width", so it easily misses creatures, regardless of range.

It should be setup similar to "lightgrn.pro", but with a slight "width", so that it doesn't bypass targets so easily, especially the target it is cast upon.

Doubledimas

kjeron said:

This spells projectile was been completely broken in IWDEE(v1.3/1.4), BG2EE(v1.3+), and BGEE(v2.0+).

The latest beta of BGEE(v2.5.15.1) has fixed some of it's issues, but not all.

It's current projectile "lightb.pro" is incorrectly setup as AoE, causing it to easily bypass the first target, and the sub-projectile it fires afterwards has no "width", so it easily misses creatures, regardless of range.

It should be setup similar to "lightgrn.pro", but with a slight "width", so that it doesn't bypass targets so easily, especially the target it is cast upon.

Is that because of this bug or something else?

kjeron

Doubledimas said:

Is that because of this bug or something else?

Partially.
When projectiles were externalized back in IWDEE (and later ported to the other games), the bouncing mechanic did not work correctly.
Lightning bolt was given an odd bounce-off-first-creature AoE projectile as a placeholder.
The bouncing mechanics have been fixed in the current beta, but the spell still has that placeholder projectile.