Modifying Missile (Bounce) attacks with triggers/upgrades

[StangtennisGuru]

I have a unit with a Missile (bounce) attack on which I need to be able to modify both the number of targets and the loss factor. Luckily there are triggers for both of these (Set Unit Weapon Real/Integer Field), unluckily they have no effect whatsoever (like 90 % of the Weapon Fields). Seriously hope that gets fixed one day, because it would make a million things easier.

Anyways I'm fairly certain the number of targets can still get modified using an upgrade based on 'Upgrade Moon Glaive' but loss factor isn't as simple. Is there any way that I can possibly do that through triggers, upgrades, pretty much anything?

 

[Remixer]

There's a research field called "Attack Damage Loss Bonus". This affects the damage loss per bounce. The formula, I think is converted by a division of 100, meaning that a value of 10 increases damage loss by 10%, while the value of -10 reduces the damage loss of the unit type by 10%.

 

[StangtennisGuru]

Damn... You had the right idea but blizzard didn't. There's no conversion happening so you can literally only increase/decrease the value by integers for a value that you always want between 0 and 1...

Possibly a new record for editor stupidity.

 

[Remixer]

Setting the unit's real weapon field also seems to affect it, perhaps you can use that? It seems to have some weird logic too though, but at least you could technically calculate the correct damage loss if you so desire. The native seems to work with attack indexes starting from 1.

 

[StangtennisGuru]

Okay we're definitely dealing with unintended behavior here but... it works? When I use:

• Unit - Set Unit: Huntress 0088 <gen>'s Weapon Real Field: Attack Damage Loss Factor ('udl1')at Index:1 to Value: 0.10

It doesn't set the Damage Factor to 0.1 but instead increases it by 0.1 for Weapon 1 (which you would expect to be index 0, but that does nothing). And I can also do the opposite to decrease the Damage Loss Factor:

• Unit - Set Unit: Huntress 0088 <gen>'s Weapon Real Field: Attack Damage Loss Factor ('udl1')at Index:1 to Value: -0.10

Which works as well.

Weird shit but it works for what I need, so thanks! Wouldn't have thought to try that otherwise

Edit: Apparently they just use attack index 1 and up and with that I got Maximum Number of Attack Targets to work as well. I know some of the newer triggers count from 0 though so there's really no consistency.

 

[Remixer]

Some of the new ones use 0-index, some use 1-index, and there's also some that have difference between JASS and GUI, as far as I know. Could be wrong. Some master coder can correct me here.

 

[StangtennisGuru]

Fair enough. I think we can at least conclude that it wasn't a master coder who wrote them.