At first, I thought this was Lucky Breaks, but on reviewing the code, I don't think so. Maybe. Sometimes it shows the proper Doge, sometimes it says it hits, then misses.Shalin Shaman said:
This prints twice, for some reason. Once with damage, the other without.
If crashing KOs the bottom half, the battle ends, but she still gets one last attack?
This is actually just the wrong setup for the attack. At first, the action calculates if the ranged attack misses. It uses this result to output the text, which is what you see. But if the attack is marked as a hit it just triggers a "simple ranged attack" action, which recalculates the miss chance and outputs its own ranged attack hit/miss blurb. This was incorrect and it should apply the damage directly instead of call another attack. I've changed it to do just that, and because the arrow hit is described as burning with poison, I've laced the enemy's bow weapon with some poison damage.
The twice printing is due to being in a loop (you are technically fighting two enemies). I moved the text out of the loop and used the loop to flag the variant result for the text.
I've adjusted the upper half to consider being defeated if the lower body is knocked out (via HP) to match the checks in the text.
Speaking of: The Shalinae Ki-Bow has no Damage Flags. Given that it's 'classified as an anti-vehicle missile', it should probably be Penetrating.
It actually is possible for Steele to have a 'strong lower body with dextrous feet' (Avian, at least, can be prehensile). Accounting for that goes against the principle that TFs should have minimal combat application, but I wanted to throw it out there.Shalinae Ki-Bow said:
Okay, added for the next release. Not sure if it'll require a nerf or revert due to budgeting, but that can be decided upon later review.
It's fine--most body parts don't affect the gameplay mechanically, so you can take that description more as flavor text by the author. Using the bow shouldn't have a body part type restriction.
I'm 90% sure it's a sidegrade*. The vast majority of weapons have damage flags and not having one means it's not affected by the armor flag system, IIRC. It also made it stand out as unusual, if nothing else, which is why I thought it might be a bug.
I wouldn't expect it to be restricted to certain body types: the flavor text implies it is reloadable without, just painful. More like a reduction to the Evasion penalty, since you can reload faster, or something.
I do agree, but there's also an actual budget calculator on the dev-side to weigh whether or not an equipment item is overpowered depending on the item's level and various other factors. At the moment, with this change, the weapon is over budget by 15 "points", which isn't huge, relatively speaking, but it is still over budget. Eventually, there will need to be a balance pass over all the over-budget and under-budget items (if they aren't intended to be such), but combat balancing isn't my forte, so I'll leave it to the other devs.
There's also the question of how accurate the calculator is. Was it updated after making -Evasion increase damage*? Making Accuracy directly counter Evasion? How much is Burn Chance worth?
