[BUG v.912] Flame Wave and Blizard not causing any damage

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During tactical combat I have noticed that Flame Wave causes no damage to opposing forces.  Additionally I have noticed that Blizzard does not appear to be working on a consistant basis.  I have found that sometimes I can get blizzard to work for the first tactical battle after loading a game, but after that it no longer causes any damage.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I had the same issure with Flame wave in .90.  I double checked the monsters, and none were resistant or immune to fire.  Tried casting multiple times in one battle, and no effect.

 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I've had the same issue with flame wave stopping doing any damage mid game/battle.  Something is broken with this update, worked fine before if a little OP.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

 

I cant repro any situation where flame wave doesnt do damage when it should.  If someone can provide a save when they are having the issue I'd love to check it out.  I didnt notice that if you get enough particles in the battle the flames wont be displayed, but even in those cases the damage is still done.

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top


Derek - I was playing a game this weekend where I tried to use Flamewave & didn't see any damage.  I actually had 3 or 4 champions + Sov cast it and nothing happened.  The flames were displayed but no damage was done.  I keep all my saves, so I'll find one & send it in when I get home tonite. 

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

cool, thanks.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

This isn't a quest, I didn't save at that point, but if you attack the Slag (and he's supposed to be very vulnerable to fire damage) you'll see what we mean.

I had 3 champions quay up Flamewave & then started casting Haste to speed up the process, much to my chagrin.  He died by the sword very nicely.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16706254/Jim_912_4_29.EleSav

 I have a latter saved game where I have Blizzard, but that spell worked just fine.

As an aside, you can see I'm deep into a massive game on a large map (level=challenging), but I've had zero crashes and absolutely no slow downs.

I'm running on a new machine (Acer Predator w/Win7-64, i7-2600, 8GB DDR3, GeForce GT530 2GB) that hasn't had time to get clogged up with all those "death of a thousand cuts" add-on programs, but that's pretty impressive when I read about problems others are having.

Games a blast - just need to beef up the AI (and monsters) & make it a little more threatening.  Love the new Quests.  I actually thought a couple of those AI cities were going to be a challenge they had so many defenders.  Still not seeing AI Sov's or Champions really use magic.