Minor issues
Alonso
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I've found some minor issues in BG2:
Are these intended? If not, are there fixes for any of them?
- Silenced bards can still sing their songs.
- Shortbow of Gesen: When an arrow is equipped, it still deals electric damage.
- Maze: There is a very long delay since the spell is cast until its effect takes place, the description says nothing about that.
- Watcher’s keep > Level 3 > Room with five glabrezu (AR3010): During the whole fight there is a smoke effect that covers the whole room but doesn’t seem to actually do anything at all.
- Mazzy’s Strength: It improves THAC0 even with ranged weapons. Is this intended?
- Sometimes the combat log shows the message “You cannot cast multiple instances of the same contingency spell on yourself” at times when it doesn’t make sense. For instance, it shows it for an efreeti, who don’t even have contingency spells.
- Sometimes the combat log shows the message “One of the spells has failed” when the character is not casting any spell.
- When a bard is singing and you click any of the buttons in his quick buttons bar he stops singing immediately. Many times you want to use this buttons just to check what spells or abilities he has available, not to perform any action. Therefore, just clicking the button shouldn’t stop the song, it should only be stopped when the bard actually performs the action, like, for instance, when he actually starts to cast a spell.
- My wizard has Energy Blades, which is a Quest spell.
Are these intended? If not, are there fixes for any of them?
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4) It's a part of their Summoning spells. Aside from working as a literal smoke-screen against the player I don't know what purpose it has.
5) The description is rather clear about this: 6) Fire shields, Blade Barrier, and their HLA variants all use contingencies for their damage. Recasting them before they expire results in the same block as the regular contingency spell. It could be fixed now, but was also how these spells originally prevented self-stacking.
7) Similar to '6' above - any contingency or sequencer spell that is activated out of it's range returns that feedback message. The Fire Shields trigger on every hit, but most ranged attackers are out of range of the feedback damage spell. Normal spellcasting does not trigger this message.
8) This is no different from any other modal ability - clicking any other actionbar button ends them.
9) Separate version of Energy Blades are available to both Arcane and Divine casters.
10) There is no feedback message tied to the Dispel Magic effect, unlike those effects that remove effects by school or type (True Sight). The "Dispel Effects" string is manually done with a "Display String" effect.
I know, I just used bard songs as an example. It is equally inconvenient with all other modal abilities.
Turns out this was a bug in my spells description mod. Locally fixed now.
I understand you're confirming that the others (2, 4, 6, 7 and 10) are bugs, right?
It's always been possible to add projectiles onto a launcher that can operate without them - I don't see that as a bug.
The maze animation does take a long time, but I think that is intended behavior. Changing it would change the existing game play (for instance it would no longer be possible to dispel the maze effect before a mazed character disappeared).
#2 has been reported before and returned "Working as intended". (I didn't agree, so made mod to implement otherwise)
#4 all summoning spells play animations. I doubt it's a bug considering someone had to go out of there way to use an AoE projectile to generate those animation instead of just using the default animation mechanism tied to the summoning effect, especially since one of those projectile is otherwise unused in the game.
#6/7 are working as intended, it's just no longer necessary for those spells to work that way. (#6 is easy to change, #7 less so)
#10 is also working as intended - the feedback informs you of which creatures were in the area of effect, not which had effects dispelled.
mazzy's ability give her 18.00 STR (-3 thac0 mlee and + 6 dmg if the latter is used for the wepon equipped, so mlee and some ranged weapons)
AND
-4 thac0 for all weapons.
she gets -7 thac0 +6dmg with a sword, -4 thac0 +6dmg with a sling and -4thac0 and no dmg bonus with a bow.
the name of the ability is misleading, but the description is clear and correct, and there is no inconsistency with the combat system as the STR related thac0 bonus is working as intended and the other bonus is not str related so works with any weapon.
It's just the name of the ability that I find inconsistent, so I think we're on the same page. I think I'll rename as @Grond0 suggested in my improved descriptions mod.
The few that are listed separately have dedicated opcodes to generate their effect (such as Bless).