Major Piety (Shrine) Bug.

I'll first mention 2 long standing bugs.

Some time ago, Mark gave some info on Piety and how she is programmed/limited to behave.

1) When she warps, she only warps onto other portals.

2) When in Ice form she cannot move to LoS.

I responded in that thread that both are either not true, or not WAI. She warps to places that don't have and have not had a portal. She very often walks great distances to LoS the player while in Ice form.

I remember Aux actually picking up on it and making a VoD of her LoSing in Ice form.

So this has just been left at that for ~1 year, is it bugged? Who knows, as there were no responses.

However, I need to really bring this bug to the attention of the devs and maybe the other 2 will be looked into.

Piety in Ice form, but with turbo AI of fire form.
Yup, lightning speed, sticking to the player, shooting Ice Shot at fire attack speed and at -max shocking ground, too, lol.


http://www.twitch.tv/theanuhart/c/4298301

Looking at the VoD, she's actually doing fire damage (you can see me burn) which is why I didn't RIP.

The worrying thing is, though, if this happens in reverse, you go to facetank the fire form and she's ice shotting your face. With fire animations, fire form and it would look as though - fire attacks.

WAI? LoS?

erk tra rof lot? u 3l1t3 wow?

vod = video on demand? so aux did sell the video?

why do communities always tend to exclude others to feel like a real community?

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cronus wrote:

WAI? LoS?

erk tra rof lot? u 3l1t3 wow?

vod = video on demand? so aux did sell the video?

why do communities always tend to exclude others to feel like a real community?

I have been here a while and I have no clue what he is saying either. Must be because I am not one of dem leetz gamerz.

I like the part where Mark addresses the year old bugs and never answers about the one which the post actually is about.

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ScreamingNoNo wrote:

I like the part where Mark addresses the year old bugs and never answers about the one which the post actually is about.

Probably looking how it is on the internal server. If he doesn't respond we should send him a little reminder :D

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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TheAnuhart wrote:

1) When she warps, she only warps onto other portals.

She also warps to invisible markers near the centre that allow you to summon the demons and blood elementals, not just to the transformation portals.

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TheAnuhart wrote:

2) When in Ice form she cannot move to LoS.

I responded in that thread that both are either not true, or not WAI. She warps to places that don't have and have not had a portal. She very often walks great distances to LoS the player while in Ice form.

I remember Aux actually picking up on it and making a VoD of her LoSing in Ice form.

She moves for other reasons, not LoS, and all the videos I saw at the time were consistent with that, people misinterpreted them (people in general are really bad at judging why monsters are doing things from watching, I've found). I haven't looked into this recently, so it might have regressed over time - there have been some changes to monster AI/LoS stuff, particularly for uniques.

She ports to places all over the room (not just the centre) which have no portal.
She does it all the time.

In Ice form, she absolutely moves to LoS you.
She'll fire an Ice shot, you move and LoS her. She stops firing and walks to gain LoS and fires again. Only in some cases will she remain firing with you completely protected by LoS.

Also, to echo ScreamingNoNo's post. Uhhhmm, the elephant in the room?

Perhaps, Sneakypaw, perhaps.

With my awesome powers of deduction, I figured out that LoS is (probably) Line of Sight.

And WAI, Working As Intended.

The center area is not a single point but a pretty large percentage of the room. He didn't say she warps into the center, but near the center. I've never seen her warp to the outer part of the room where no visible portal exists. So I'd say that qualifies as working as intended.