[CF-Devel] Icestorm - could not move - death

[crossfire-devel at archives.real-time.com]

ERACC wrote:
>
     
      Greetings Developers,
     
     >
     
     
     >
     
      In the Wizard Tower in Lake Country my character Galahad was just
     
     >
     
      killed because the Grand Master's icestorm pushed him into the little
     
     >
     
      hallway at the bottom and he could not move while the cold resist
     
     >
     
      potion wore off. It was not paralyzation as he had +100 against that
     
     >
     
      with the equipment. Is that the desired result?
     
     >
     
     
     >
     
      I noticed Galahad being shoved around a lot by icestorm. This is the
     
     >
     
      first time I've ever gone to the Wizard Tower with this character. It
     
     >
     
      is also the first time there since the code changed to where these
     
     >
     
      spells push things. If there was something else I could have done to
     
     >
     
      prepare for this I don't know what it is.
     
     >
     
     
     >
     
      Galahad was able to go back and kill it even though all his stats are
     
     >
     
      down, again. Very frustrating that it could not be done the first
     
     >
     
      time because he was trapped by icestorm. :-(
     
     
  Well, I notice that it is intentional that icestorm does puch the players back.

  What is probably missing here is that check_spell_knockback doesn't care about 
the resistances the target may have.  I'm thinking that should probably be 
changed - perhaps the effect of knockback is adjusted based on resistance to the 
attacktype.

  But looking at the code, I wonder if the knockback code could get moved into 
the hit_map or the like - since that already traverses the spaces, looking for 
objects to damage/destroy, and also processes the resistances, it would seem 
more efficient to modify hit_map to perhaps take an extra paramter or two to 
denote hitback effect (or perhaps hit_map can just look at the type/subtype that 
is passed in on op, and figure it out from there)


_______________________________________________
crossfire-devel mailing list
     
     crossfire-devel at lists.real-time.com
     
     
     https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-devel