[1.6.7] Mindrot may not trigger from fast non-instant action
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 8:57 pm
Mindrot's description states "Every time you act, all enemies in your gloom take X mind damage and Y darkness damage." However, it's implemented with a callbackOnActEnd, which is only called after using energy and not having enough energy left to take another action:This means that if you have a lot of extra energy and/or your action was very fast, Mindrot can fail to trigger, even though you did act. This is actually quite impactful in practice on Cursed, because Rampage + movement infusions will often take your movement speed above 1000%, which will mean that you can move more than once in the same game tick, which will only trigger Mindrot once. This is quite confusing to players that encounter it!
I am struggling a bit to come up with a good solution though. The bug itself is easily fixed by moving the fireTalentCheck outside the if block (and add a check that val > 0, I guess), that's not the problem. The problem is, I'm worried that just fixing the bug and doing nothing else... would make "take Through the Crowd and swap with summoned Wayists 200 times per game turn to kill things with Mindrot" into a viable strategy, and that is an unfun strategy that should remain unviable.
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function _M:useEnergy(val)
mod.class.Actor.useEnergy(self, val)
if self.player and self.energy.value < game.energy_to_act then
game.paused = false
self:fireTalentCheck("callbackOnActEnd")
end
endI am struggling a bit to come up with a good solution though. The bug itself is easily fixed by moving the fireTalentCheck outside the if block (and add a check that val > 0, I guess), that's not the problem. The problem is, I'm worried that just fixing the bug and doing nothing else... would make "take Through the Crowd and swap with summoned Wayists 200 times per game turn to kill things with Mindrot" into a viable strategy, and that is an unfun strategy that should remain unviable.