0 damage spell deals a very small amount of damage (something like 0.5)

[Uncle]

Just patched to the new 1.31 patch and I don't know if this is related, but I have a dummy unit that casts a 0 damage Storm Bolt to stun units. For some reason the Storm Bolt is dealing a very small amount of damage, it appears to be about 0.5. I'm staring at it in the Object Editor and it's clearly set to deal 0 damage.

Any ideas? New patch bug? I'm using a Damage Detection System (Bribes) but I turned it off and it didn't make a difference.

 

[Bribe]

Illusions also deal 1 damage instead of 0.

 

[Rahko]

I'm having the same problem. Must have something to do with the patch.

 

[Bribe]

I'm having the same problem. Must have something to do with the patch.

If it's 1.31 specific, then it's most likely due to the separation of pre-damage versus on-damage events that were introduced. I haven't done enough comparisons to how it was in 1.30 and now that the game is patched officially I'm not able to verify whether this is a new issue or not.

 

[Chaosium]

Did you try with another spell ? I used a damage detection system of my own prior to the patch, and all my targeted spells based on Channel displayed "1" as floating text damage, even though no actual damage was dealt.

I don't think that's 1.31 related, and no clue why it happens.

 

[Uncle]

I honestly can't remember if it was happening prior to 1.31. I feel like I would've noticed it before, though.

 

[Rahko]

To me it definitely started only after this patch.

 

[Bribe]

To me it definitely started only after this patch.

At least some of it was already there since 1.30, as I had tested the PTR and 1.30 side by side and the PTR didn't seem to do anything differently.