Bugs in 4.2.0

[Nick]

Originally Posted by Grotug

Okay. Here is a video of the trap behaving in weird/unexpected ways:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgOcJ-2FPiQ#t=67m20s

Thanks, that's helpful. It looks like the trap graphic gets reversed at some point, so the trap is visible for a while while disabled, and then vanishes when it becomes re-enabled.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by wobbly

The targeting for breathe weapons is out. Monsters target the "knight move" even though the breathe cone wont hit.

I have done fairly exhaustive testing of this and can't reproduce it - has it been seen lately?

[wobbly]

I haven't been playing much recently, but I'll look out for it next time I play, see if its still happening.

[whartung]

Originally Posted by Nick

I have done fairly exhaustive testing of this and can't reproduce it - has it been seen lately?

I recently saw perhaps something like this. These were hounds breathing on me, but not hitting. They knew I was there, they were breathing, I was around a corner, but the breath was not hitting. And yet they were in LOS at some point, as I was basically just waiting them out. When they poked in to LOS, I'd stick an arrow in to them.

Don't know if that's the anticipated behavior or not.

[wobbly]

Originally Posted by wobbly

The targeting for breathe weapons is out. Monsters target the "knight move" even though the breathe cone wont hit.

Originally Posted by Nick

I have done fairly exhaustive testing of this and can't reproduce it - has it been seen lately?

http://angband.oook.cz/screen-show.php?id=4819

Current master on angband.live

The sky dragon is 10 N 1 W at full health and just breathed force. I was already injured, my hps look close to where they were before it breathed.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by wobbly

http://angband.oook.cz/screen-show.php?id=4819

Current master on angband.live

The sky dragon is 10 N 1 W at full health and just breathed force. I was already injured, my hps look close to where they were before it breathed.

So that should do about 100HP. I'll try to reproduce the same situation and see what I can see.

[drquicksilver]

I can definitely confirm breathing monsters breathe even when they can’t hit you in 4.2.1. I haven’t worked out exactly when it happens but it is fairly common with a group of hounds in a room and @ just down a corridor.

[Nick]

OK, can confirm. It looks like the error is in the projection code that actually produces the breath. The monster checks if it can hit the player's grid, gets a "yes" and tries to, but the projection function calculates that that grid is not hit.

[PowerWyrm]

I was wondering why sometimes in my variant I was seeing something breathe from afar without getting hit (usually a vortex). Now I know I was not hallucinating...