Fixes#240
Monster versus monster (melee and throwing) didn't handle shades
(need silver or blessed weapon to take damage) or silver feedback
(extra info when silver-haters are hit).
I did a lot of test, revise, re-test but didn't always re-test
everything that had previously been tested, so bugs that I thought
were quashed might have crept in.
Now if a missile weapon "passes harmlessly through the shade" it
will continue on and maybe hit something else. (Regular misses
still stop at the missed target.)
A couple of minor ball&chain changes accidentally got included.
Fixes#204
3.6.2's attempts to fix turning off SEDUCE in 'sysconf' introduced
an unintentional change in behavior for hero poly'd into nymph form:
theft attack always angered the target. The actual change was
intentional but its ramifications were unexpected.
Fixes#188
The change to fix setting SEDUCE=0 in sysconf broke chatting with
seductive demons by unintentionally changing the way Null attack
argument was handled. It's still handled differently than it used
to be, but I think this difference is correct.
Preserve temporary fake object's previous dknown value by storing it
as a flag value within the m_ap_type field of the posing monster, and
recalling it when it is needed.
This is intended to help eliminate observable differences in price display
between real objects and mimics posing as objects.
98% of this is just switching the code to utilize macro M_AP_TYPE(mon)
everywhere to ensure that the flag bits are stripped off when needed.
Noticed while trying to find the reason for the wildmiss impossible(),
you could be teleported and then drop dead at the destination. A QM's
AD_TLPT hit also does 1d4 physical damage which gets applied after the
teleport. Getting "You die." seemed pretty strange, particularly after
picking the destination with telport control. This makes sure that the
damage will never be fatal when teleport is attempted.
When SEDUCE is disabled, instead of swapping attacks in mons[] once,
do it on the fly in getmattk() whenever needed. That allows mons[]
to become readonly, although this doesn't declare it 'const' because
doing so will require a zillion 'struct permonst *' updates to match.
This seemed trickier than it should be, but that turned out to be
because the old behavior was broken. Setting SEDUCE=0 in sysconf or
user's own configuration file resulted in all succubus and incubus
attacks being described as monster smiles engagingly or seductively
rather than hitting (while dishing out physical damage). I didn't
try rebuilding 3.4.3 to see whether this was already broken before
being migrated to SYSCF.
Static analysis notices that
if (physical_damage)
tmp = Maybe_Half_Phys(tmp);
will never pass the test because all code paths leading to it set
'physical_damage' to False. Instead of getting rid of it, add a fake
case that leaves that True.
Life-saving was setting u.uswldtim to 0, presumably intending that
to stop the hero from being digested, but it actually resulted in
being totally digested on the swallower's next turn if the death
being short-circuited wasn't digestion. Change life-saving to make
swallower or grabber release the hero instead of tinkering with
u.uswldtim. In addition to rescuing the hero from digestion, it
prevents an eel which has just drowned the hero (who has survived
drowning via life-saving) from pulling him/her back into the water
on its next turn. It will need to make another successful grab to
do that now.
While testing, I noticed that if I was polymorphed and wearing an
amulet of unchanging, life-saving didn't restore my HP-as-a-monster
and due to the recent change to force that to 0 when the hero dies,
I died again immediately after my life was saved. So this bug was
latent in the past and became noticeable in the last couple of days.
Make being trapped in/on/over floor block Levitation and Flying, the
way that being inside solid rock already does, and the way levitating
blocks flight.
Blocked levitation still provides enhanced carrying capacity since
magic is attempting to make the hero's body be bouyant. I think that
that is appropriate but am not completely convinced.
One thing that almost certainly needs fixing is digging a hole when
trapped in the floor or tethered to a buried iron ball, where the
first part of digactualhole() releases the hero from being trapped.
If being released re-enables blocked levitation, the further stages
of digging might not make sense in some circumstances.
I recently realized that being held by a grabbing monster is similar
to being trapped so should also interfere with levitation and flying.
Nothing here attempts to address that.
Save files change, but in a compatible fashion unless trapped at the
time of saving. If someone saves while trapped prior to this patch,
then applies it and restores, the game will behave as if the patch
wasn't in place--until escape from trap is achieved. (Not verified.)
Most shop messages accurately identify the shopkeeper even when he
or she can't be seen, but some also include a pronoun reference that
ended up as "it" or "its" when not seen. Extend pronoun selection
so that visibility can be ignored: noit_mhe(mon), noit_mhim(mon),
and noit_mhis(mon). Note that despite being called noit_foo(),
those will still return "it" if mon is neuter.
"Accurately identify shopkeeper" is misleading if the hero is
hallucinating; a random shopkeeper name is used then. noit_foo()
yields the pronoun applicable to the actual shopkeeper and might
not match the gender of a hallucinatory name. That could be fixed
in a couple of ways (add shk_mhe()/shk_mhim()/shk_mhis() and either
pass them the randomly chosen name so that they can figure out the
appropriate gender, or just have them use a random gender whenever
hallucinating) but I don't think that's worth bothering with.
A bunch of shop messages needed noit_foo(); only a couple of those
have actually been tested. A bunch more were using shkname() at
the beginning of a sentence where Shknam() should be used instead.
(All the existing shk names are already capitalized so there's no
noticeable difference.)
The three places outside shk.c and vault.c which directly use
pronoun_gender() have been successfully tested.
Interrupt seduction if the hero gets moved away from the seducer, or
if both of them move to another level. Loss of levitation can drop
the hero onto a trap which sends him/her somewhere else, but seduction
was continuing as if nothing had happened. In theory it could continue
despite level change because succubus and incubus are level followers,
but there's no way of knowing whether seducer and victim will arrive
next to each other until they get delivered and that doesn't happen
until long after the attack needs to finish.
I don't think theft has the same problem because it is a multi-turn
activity operating on one item at a time, but I didn't check it out.
Various seduction messages with a verbal component were being given
to hero even when deaf. This uses alternate messages if some cases
and bypasses the message in others. In particular, if hero is deaf
then he or she will not be given the choice to decline removing a
piece of armor--or taking off or putting on a ring of adornment--
that can ordinarily occur (based on die roll against Charisma).
The seduction code was also using '!Blind' to test whether the hero
could see his/her seducer, ignoring the possibility that it might be
invisible. I think the only ramification is that "It" would appear
in messages instead of the "She" or "He" that are explicitly used
when not seen due to blindness.
If an mplayer Valkyrie on the Astral Plane is given a war hammer,
give her gauntlets of power instead of random gloves since that will
either be Mjollnir or a very wimpy endgame weapon. (Maybe someday
mplayer Valkyrie's will be able to throw Mjollnir; their chance of
having it on the Astral Plane is moderately high if it hasn't already
been created prior to arriving there.)
I also gave monsters wearing gauntlets of power a 3..6 damage bonus
for hand-to-hand. While making that change, I noticed that monsters
wielding a scalpel or tsurugi wouldn't split puddings, unlike the
hero (a post-3.6.0 change), so fix that.
When a monster killed a paper golem with a fire attack, the player was
told that the golem "burns completely" yet it might still leave some
blank scrolls as 'corpse'. The fix for that was one-line, but several
other death-by-fire situations which didn't report "burns completely"
were also leaving scrolls: fireball spell or scroll of fire or other
fire explosions (if any), also wand of fire. Fire trap and poly'd
hero with fire attack were already suppressing 'corpse'.
Self-genocide (own role or race) while polymorphed sets u.uhp to -1
so that you'll be killed during rehumanization. I found a couple
of places which were testing (u.uhp < 1) without checking polymorph
state, and one of those was where monster movement decides whether or
not to attack. This bug seems to have been present since start of
the second cvs repository, so has been around for quite a long time
without anybody letting on that they'd noticed. So it probably isn't
a very effective exploit, although it would certainly make ascending
without wearing armor become much more feasible.
There are bound to be other places which examine u.uhp directly
instead of '(Upolyd ? u.mh : u.uhp)' but I only checked m*.c.
Change the wording slightly if the hero simultaneously (in theory)
reverts to normal form and splahes acid on his/her attacker. Giving
the passive counterattack message first would be better, but several
types of counterattacks need to know in advance whether the hero has
reverted, producing a chicken-vs-egg seqeuncing situation.
I also took out 'register' directives from a bunch of declarations
since they'd been pretty much applied blindly rather than in
circumstances where someone evaluated the situation and decided that
they might matter.
m_monnam() overrides hallucination, which is appropriate in some
situations but not others. This fixes one instance where it was
being misused: discovering a hidden monster when another monster
attacks it was calling either m_monnam() or a_monnam(); one ignores
hallucination and the other doesn't, so accurate or inaccurate
monster type depended on the condition tested.
Figurine activation and egg hatching are using m_monnam(), which
seems suspect, but I left them as is.
The pointer keeping tabs of monster's current weapon was
not cleared.
How to trigger: Get hit by a monster wielding a weapon,
teleport to another level, poly into disenchanter, get hit
by any monster with AD_PHYS attack and not wielding any weapon.
drain_item() always assumed player was responsible, so called
costly_alteration() to adjust shop price of disenchanted item.
If it was unpaid and the effect was caused by a disenchanter
attack rather than by the hero, the feedback was nonsensical.
This also lets a disenchanter hit worn rings, amulet, or blindfold
if no armor gets targetted. Amulets, blindfolds, and most rings
have no charge to be drained, but several types of rings do.
Reported by me ;-} during beta testing last Fall, engulfers have a
tendency to re-engulf the hero immediately after expelling him/her.
Use mspec_used (set when expelling rather than engulfing) to make
them wait a turn or two. Initially that made the too-soon engulf
attacks always miss, so this changes too-soon engulf to a touch or
claw attack instead. Some tuning in damage or message may be needed.
Some reformatting of the recently added pet ranged attack code.
The redundant--but different--multishot volley code has been replaced
so that there are only two versions (hero and monster) instead of
three (hero and monster vs hero and pet vs other monster). The monst
version was out of date relative to post-3.4.3 changes to the hero one.
The pet version was way out of date and had some bugs: wielding an
elven bow gave a +1 multishot increment to volley count for fast weapon
even when throwing something rather than shooting arrows, wielding any
weapon which had at least +2 enchantment gave 1/3 enchantment bonus to
volley count when throwing instead of shooting shoot ammo, and a pet
which got killed in the midst of a multishot volley--perhaps by a gas
spore explosion or some other passive counterattack--would keep on
shooting/throwing until the volley count was exhausted.
Pet use of ranged weapons is not ready for prime-time. Pets don't
hang on to missiles or launchers+ammo, they just drop them if there is
no target immediately available.
Do it properly, using the arguments to xkilled() instead of reversing
the conduct counter after the fact.
The xkilled() flag value of '1' has been reversed. It used to mean
'display message' but now means 'suppress message' since both of the
other flag bits are for suppression. All callers have been updated
to specify either XKILL_GIVEMSG or XKILL_NOMSG so the underlying
number remains transparent.
This one had been intended for longer than several years, but I
hadn't gotten around to it. When consorting with succubi and
incubi, very high Cha+Int no longer guarantees that a positive
outcome will occur.
Chance of positive outcome is still quite high and most of the
negative outcomes are pretty easy to repair, so this isn't likely
to make a significant impact. However, the possibility of losing
spell power will matter for some players....
Blindness due to face covered by pie was ignored for several cases
of magically curing blindness--cleaning the face seems better than
adjusting timeout to account for u.ucreamed for those cases. A few
instances of taking stun or confusion damage overrode existing stun
or confusion rather than increasing it. Plus a copy/paste mistake
for dual stun+confusion when casting an expired spell.
There was also a suggestion that vomiting when already nauseated
should decrement the timer instead of increasing it. But there is a
negative effect for as long as it's in effect, so I left that as is.
Let monsters who have a weapon attack for non-physical damage dish
out physical damage instead of doing the drain life or drain
strength they usually do if they happen to be wielding cockatrice
corpses or a couple of particular aritfacts that do more harm
than just level drain. (Other artifacts are candidates, but I
don't think it's worth checking for them since the monsters
involved have such a small chance of acquiring and wielding them.)
Also switch to physical if monster's ability has been cancelled.
Only barrow wight, Nazgul, and erinys are affected. Yeenoghu and
the Master Assassin have a weapon attack for physical damage and
another one for non-physical damage (not necessarily delivered in
that order). They haven't been changed--only the physical damage
attack has a chance to apply their weapon's special damage.
Two different reports complaining that having the Wizard steal the
hero's quest artifact is a bad thing. This doesn't change that,
but it does make all quest artifacts become equal targets so that
wishing for other roles' artifacts doesn't offer such a safe way to
have whichever special attributes they provide.
Quest artifacts are actually higher priority targets for theft than
the Amulet. I suspect that probably wasn't originally intended,
but I left things that way. Taking quest artifacts leaves the hero
more vulnerable to future thefts, and once they're gone the Amulet
has priority over the invocation tools.
