WrenXIII, it looks like the damage system doesn't actually subtract health, but instead only does addition.  Therefore to do damage, and take away an opponents health, you have to add a negative value.  So the -1 to -0.1 adds that negative value to the targets current health, taking damage away.

If you changed the max and min to both be positive, I would expect that you'd make a weapon which adds to the targets health for every attack.   For a really strange device you could put max at -1, and min at 1, and have something which damages half the time, and heals the other half!

OK, that makes sense. it seemed like it was calculating hit % instead of damage variation.

@wren - The values are calucated as negatives for damage and added to your currrent HP total to cause HP loss. The xml is trying to say your bow will "hit" for 0-6 points of damage (0 being a miss). The problem appears to be the code reading the min value and seeing zero and then saying that misses automatically. Need to be reading against MaxValue or Value. Not MinValue.

I also wonder if the armour numbers are being taken into account correctly now as well. It will be nice to see the pyton code to all this in order for modders to adjust as they see fit for the style of combat. I'm personally not a big fan of linked miss/hit/damage. I would like a more refined hit or miss by skill, then damage vs protection (armour, spell, terrain even). From there other items like critical hits, sweeping attacks, volley fire, etc could be accounted for.

My 2 cents.

@wren, when I was testing my fix I had tried a positive number ,BUT the bow did not work AND I had a divide by zero error happen, but with the neg numbers no error, which is why I suggested the negative number.

and a bit of old info, the 1.0 version of the file used TroopNumber in place of the negative.

harpo

They're getting ready to stage a fix for this along with some other issues that cropped up.

harpo

For the bow the bug fix mod apparently works.  Check the mod forums.

Frogboy, I've got fixes for 4 other special abilities that I've tested out: Deadly bite, Flame strike, Rain of stone, and Crushing blow.  Attached is the xml code used for the fix.  If possible can those be included?

nm

There is now an hotfix available (v1.08.037) that will fix these issues, along with:

+ CTD with some unit abilities
+ cur-mana values not being correct post battle

Note that previous saved games will still have the 'always-miss' bow issue, but the ability crashes will be gone. Also, if you have the private MP build, you will have to uninstall and reinstall to see the newest build. We will have a new MP build up on Monday with these changes.

where's the hotfix at ? impulse isnt showing any new update ready atm ?

My 'rain of stone' is still missing 100% of the time.  Have not tested other spells yet.

Edit:

My bows are still missing 100% as well.  And every other spell I have tried.

Edit again:

Seems to only be with my custom sovereign,  I will try making a new one.

Was this after the lastest hotfix from a little while ago?  Do you have any XML files in you /Mods directory?

shark: New game, or saved game?  Saved games would still have the old data embedded in them.  Also, if you've updated to the beta MP build, you'll have to turn off pre-release versions and reinstall to get this update (we'll be releasing the MP hotfix on Monday).

New game, old custom sovereign.  Seems to work great with Relias.  I will keep testing.

Edit:  Working with new custom sovereign