Strange Orb of Slow Effect Behaviour?

[madmuffin]

Hey everyone, I'm having a weird effect happening with the Orb of Slow ability, the one that has a percent chance to cast another ability. I set the ability chance to 25%, and it works every time I manually target an enemy, but it has never fired once when the unit auto acquires an enemy in it's range. Has anyone else experienced this problem, and is there any way to overcome it?

 

[watermelon_1234]

That's a glitch with that ability that can't be fixed as far as I know.

The only way I know to overcome that would be to manually trigger that ability with damage detection.

 

[madmuffin]

Ah okay. Instead I'll just do something like 'unit attacks, condition its the unit I want, then do a random integer comparison etc.

 

[watermelon_1234]

The only thing that's wrong with that is that

• Unit - A unit Is attacked

runs whenever a unit starts to attack, making it easy to abuse. (The trigger will run before the unit is actually attacked and even runs if the attack would have missed.)

 

[D4RK_G4ND4LF]

• OrbDebug
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Is attacked
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order (Attacking unit) to Attack (Attacked unit)

unfortunately this will block the first attack but it's the easiest solution by far

however every good map needs a damage detection system so it would not be too hard to just add such a condition
as watermelon said "a unit is attacked" can be abused
for example every time an attack order is issued the event will trigger so you could spam it and have a much bigger chance to trigger the effect