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

Mon May 24 12:05:17 CDT 2004

On Monday 24 May 2004 10:46
Todd Mitchell wrote:

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      In real-life (if it even matters) heavy winds cause damage to

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      property every day - even to the point to tearing the roof off of

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      buildings and flipping over vehicles so I don't see how it is such

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      a ridiculous notion - let alone an 'utterly ridiculous' one.  I

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      have been out in a moderate blizzard and believe me it is hard to

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      move, hard to see and hard to do anything while the freezing wind

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      and snow whips past.  As for fire - even excluding the heat that

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      much air moving is certainly a force to be considered. More unusual

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      is that in the game they do *not* push objects IMHO. Anyway I

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      removed the weights from icestorm and firebreath/burning hands so

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      they will not use the knockback effect.  Windstorm I have left

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      alone as it *always* used this code in the past and the new wave

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      spell I have also left alone since no existing maps use it.

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      As I said before the knockback effect was not new.  Perhaps the

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      move object function is highlighting the problem however in that it

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      appears to have an paralyzing effect on players in addition to

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      pushing them. Anyway my mistake was to apply weights to incorporate

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      a new effect in some existing spells and I have corrected that in

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      CVS.

Actually, I don't have a problem with the effect itself. I have a
problem with the fact there are no countermeasures that I can find
for it. The idea of these spells pushing players around is not bad.
What IS bad is that players have no way to counter it.

Someone suggested a new spell to counter pushback. For non-magic
players some sort of magic footgear or a magic cloak or an amulet
or all the above that counters pushback would be cool.

For now, since there is no way to counteract the effect, I agree it
should not be there. But if changes could be made to magically reduce
or annul the pushback with a spell or item(s) I'd have no objection
to having it in the game. It would add another level of challenge.

Gene (poof|Galahad)
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