Malfunction of fear state when applied to enemies?

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• Borek Member Posts: 513

  August 2018

  There's a chance morale failure leads to berserk, i would imagine that is what is happening.

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• Noon Member Posts: 202

  August 2018

  I would guess it is part of their AI script that is still firing despite the fear effect, like when sometimes they start casting a spell and stop and flee during the incantation.

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• Cershen Member Posts: 27

  August 2018

  I would be inclined to agree with Borek's explanation that it's a berserk state but what makes me somewhat suspicious is that my party members always scatter like leaves in the wind when affected by fear whereas I've seen enemies not so much as turn their character model away when affected by the same. I've also never seen a feared enemy attack its own ally that I can recall (which is part of the berserk state no?) In any case, there's not really anything specifically reproducible or reportable as a bug but I was simply curious as to whether others had made the same general observation. Thanks for the comments.

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• Grond0 Member Posts: 7,320

  August 2018

  I don't think it's anything to do with going berserk (which I don't think would allow spells to be cast). Right back to vanilla BG there have been periodic problems with the implementation of the fear state. However, prior to the 2.5 patch of BG2EE things were working reasonably well. I noticed immediately after installing that patch though that it was now severely bugged. As I play solo, using horror as a Bhaal ability is a significant benefit for many characters and not realizing the new problems nearly resulted in me dying in Jon's dungeon twice. In several other runs since then I've noticed consistently that:
  1) AI scripts are over-riding the yellow-circled fear condition, though fear may kick back in once a round. The result of that is that melee types will attack you most of the time, though they may briefly break off every now and then. Casters have a chance of wasting spells at you, but will complete them successfully most of the time.
  2) On top of that, the fear condition seems to be cancelled entirely far quicker than it should be - lasting only a few rounds rather than the expected turn.

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• kjeron Member Posts: 2,367

  August 2018

  The panicked state does not actually disable any AI scripts, creatures just have the following script block at some level:

  IF
  	StateCheck(Myself,STATE_PANIC)
  THEN
  	RESPONSE #100
  		RandomWalkContinuous()
  END

  The character will still walk around randomly without this block, it only exists to stop and interrupt other actions. However, most creatures have this script block in their least priority script slot, meaning they will still attempt actions in scripts with a higher priority. Any of those script actions with a higher priority that are either "attack", activate fast enough, or are surrounded by "SetInterrupt(FALSE) actions SetInterrupt(TRUE)" will go off without interruption, so long as their conditions are true. The Black Pits are terribly broken due to every enemy there abusing it to chug potions while panicked.

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