Weird behaviour of Summon Insects
Alonso
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I'm fighting
Is this a bug (or several bugs)?
Mods: Ascension, Tweaks Anthology, SCS, Portraits everywhere, Lighting pack, Jimfix and EE UI Tweaks.
the black dragon near the elven city
and he casts Summon Insects on my protagonist. What happens next is weird in several ways:
- The spell should be ineffective because my protagonist is protected by Spell Deflection and Globe of Invulnerability. However, Summon Insects bypasses both protections and hits my protagonist anyway.
- Since that moment my protagonist gets 3 piercing damage every few seconds. He gets 1 extra damage from the difficulty, but that's still 2 damage every few seconds. The description of the spell says it does only 1 damage.
- Worst of all, Summon Insects acts as an AoE spell and hits also Minsc and my summoned ettercap, who were standing close to my protagonist, minding their own business. The description of the spell says that the area of effect is 1 creature.
Is this a bug (or several bugs)?
Mods: Ascension, Tweaks Anthology, SCS, Portraits everywhere, Lighting pack, Jimfix and EE UI Tweaks.
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However, the actual spell behaves very much like Insect Plague indeed: After a while Minsc got scared and started to run in fear when there was no apparent reason for him to do so. Also, in a second attempt I observed how it jumps from the first target to the closest one. So maybe the bug is simply that the game is using the wrong name for the spell.
I attach a save in case you want to test it yourself. I've done about half a dozen tests, and the dragon always casts Insect Summons (or whatever spell it really is) after a few rounds.
but in vanilla insect plague is not a real aoe spell, it has to be cast against a target, even if after spread to his allies affecting up to 6 creatures.
is also true that MR can block it, but not block the spread, so targeting an enemy with high magic resistance has a great chance to fail, but if an enemy with low magic resistance is targeted instead the insects jump to the high resistant one ignoring his MR.
seeing the screenshot, the damage done and the fact that more of a toon or friendly summon is affected it seems that an insect plague has been cast, even if the feedback tell other way, even the morale failure of minsc is typical of the plague.
but maybe in scs it is different, as you play it you should know about.
It's a monster-only version specific to Dragons.
That's a bad argument, I think. The insects in the common spell are also under the caster's command. So either both or none spells should bypass MR.
"Casts" indicates it's spell type isn't "Innate" and that it is cast through either the Spell() or SpellNoDec() actions (or their Point variants). Unmodded, it's not "Casts", as it uses "ForceSpell()".
You're right, I misread the description.