Another bug

[Marchessa_red_witch]

Pannalal has had enough: he attacks you!
1-> 1025/1025/+43hp 164/375/+25ma 109/205/+28mv +8/+9
2-> -11.0ac 1211069576xp 44786gp +10align 8:28 am fair Ah.Hellwell
bs pan
You can't backstab a fighting person, too alert!
1-> 1025/1025/+43hp 164/375/+25ma 110/205/+28mv +8/+9
2-> -11.0ac 1211069576xp 44786gp +10align 8:28 am fair Ah.Hellwell
rem bolt
You stop using a thunderbolt.
1-> 1025/1025/+43hp 164/375/+25ma 110/205/+28mv +6/+6
2-> -11.0ac 1211069576xp 44786gp +10align 8:28 am fair Ah.Hellwell
wield sword
You wield Brilliant Sword of Valor.
1-> 1025/1025/+43hp 165/375/+25ma 110/205/+28mv +7/+8
2-> -11.0ac 1211069576xp 44786gp +10align 8:29 am fair Ah.Hellwell
Ok.
1-> 1025/1025/+43hp 165/375/+25ma 110/205/+28mv +7/+8
2-> -11.0ac 1211069576xp 44786gp +10align 8:29 am fair Ah.Hellwell
dise
You don't seem to be fighting anyone right now.
1-> 1025/1025/+43hp 165/375/+25ma 110/205/+28mv +7/+8
2-> -11.0ac 1211069576xp 44786gp +10align 8:30 am fair Ah.Hellwell


The bug here is that backstab bounces because I am in combat, but combat hasn't actually started for the purposes of the disengage.

This bug could actually be exploited - since the mob doesn't hate yet - could somehow bail out and try again - though since this is a script I didn't.

Expected behavior - if mob "attacks" and bounces backstab, then other noncombat actions should be prevented as well...

[Rynquald]

That prompt is scary...

[Atwell]

This isn't actually a bug.

[quote="Marchessa_red_witch":3i45ksaq]Pannalal has had enough: he attacks you!
1-> 1025/1025/+43hp 164/375/+25ma 109/205/+28mv +8/+9
2-> -11.0ac 1211069576xp 44786gp +10align 8:28 am fair Ah.Hellwell
bs pan
You can't backstab a fighting person, too alert![/quote:3i45ksaq]

As the message says: he is fighting someone, specifically you, but...

[quote="Marchessa_red_witch":3i45ksaq]dise
You don't seem to be fighting anyone right now.[/quote:3i45ksaq]

you are not yet fighting him. After the first round, you will be fighting him as well. The game is working as designed here.

[Medios]

The same thing occurs if you try to dispel. Sometimes the mob will attack you but it pauses for a few seconds before the first round. You cannot stab or disengage, only flee. The mob does not hate because you haven't hit it yet. I believe one of the monk skills will still work, possibly death touch.

Mike

[Marchessa_red_witch]

[quote="Atwell":2am1n9vd]This isn't actually a bug. The game is working as designed here.[/quote:2am1n9vd]

I will wait for a immort to say that before writing script that exploit the behavior.

[Marchessa_red_witch]

[quote="Rynquald":5byikbqc]That prompt is scary...[/quote:5byikbqc]

in one place.

[Shazuko]

I was recently cycling crimson appie, and after my dispel, i was always able to get a curse in...didn't try to grip though, but it seems theres a few seconds there to do something if your quick...never got that 'you are already in combat' mssg until he was actually on me...*shrug*

<Shazuko Roku Ryuu>
<Shazuko Six Dragons>
<~Chaos~>

[alias]

You cant backstab a wounded mob, most people would have actually hit the mob in the first round and made it wounded so as not to be able to backstab,

Speaking of which i need more -hitroll eq so i can get a second chance.


Marchessa, damn no wonder u miss a lot of the game that prompt is almost as long as the list of brads alts.


Alias

[Marchessa_red_witch]

[quote="alias":1gp6w8r8]You cant backstab a wounded mob, most people would have actually hit the mob in the first round and made it wounded so as not to be able to backstab,

Alias[/quote:1gp6w8r8]

Read the excerpt again, there was no backstab, let alone a whiff.

[Autolycos]

[quote="alias":vw7l7k7r][color=white:vw7l7k7r]Marchessa, damn no wonder u miss a lot of the game that prompt is almost as long as the list of brads alts.[/color:vw7l7k7r]Alias[/quote:vw7l7k7r]


come on todd... thats silly.. that prompt would have to print out on 125 pages of standard 8 1/2 x 11.



but seriously.. that prompt is friggen whacked

[Marchessa_red_witch]

1-> $h/$H/$Bhp $m/$M/$Rma $v/$V/$bmv $I/$D $n2-> $aac $xxp $ggp $Aalign $Q $w $c.$Z

Just for the record.

Text mudding lives.

[Guinex]

I have read that about six times, and i am unable to see anything wrong with it.

[tincts]

With regards to "has had enough; he attacks!!". There are plenty of dispel mobs. Ya go dispel dispel south. North. Dispel dispel south. North. and so on as long as you feel like it. He'll "have enough" each time, but as long as you get out before he hits you, you can wonder back in again and keep teasing him without being smacked.

[Marchessa_red_witch]

[quote="tincts":sin21tp5]With regards to "has had enough; he attacks!!". There are plenty of dispel mobs. Ya go dispel dispel south. North. Dispel dispel south. North. and so on as long as you feel like it. He'll "have enough" each time, but as long as you get out before he hits you, you can wonder back in again and keep teasing him without being smacked.[/quote:sin21tp5]

I've written a script that does |; $exit if the mob attacks, and recycles to the backstab proc. Am testing it on poor old pannalal.

If that's what the game is supposed to do... might as well automate it.

Personally, if i were the immorts I would set the hate flag, so that if you come back in it fast aggros - which means either stealth or one of the monk skills to get the grip/stab in.

[Rynquald]

As far as I know the only way mobs hate you is if you try to do them some damage, and as you allmost pointed out yourself, everyone that can stab/grip can just sneak/presage anyway.