[Bug] Basically infinite attack.

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Was playing though a game as Capitar. Got the Drath as allies and built a company of them to go off with my Soverign and do what they want. Came across some trolls and decided to attack. The troll shaman cast confusion on my Draths. This caused my attack to go negative. I wasnt sure what confusion exactly did so i thought nothing of it. The shaman constantly casted confusion and i noticed my attack was now negative 700000. I could only think what am i going to do now. So i just charged forward and killed everythign with negative damage. Upon getting out of battle my Draths now do 14 million dmg. I fought some more and it has stuck them wiht 14 million attack. I went to see if retarting computer/game would resolve this oddity. It did not. So this was all due to the Confusion spell casted by the Troll Shaman. You might really want to look into that. Prob a quick fix as is.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

lol.  That's awesome.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

This sounds like a bug with how debuffs get removed from units. We'll definitely be looking into this. Thanks for the post Alibaster.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

For what it's worth - I just encountered the same thing, but the troll shaman actually cast confusion on me 4 times.  With the first cast of confusion, I would go into - attack.  With the 2nd confusion, I returned to my normal attack.  With the third, I again went negative.  With the 4th, I went back to normal.  So it was like casting confusion and then dispelling it with the 2nd cast.  After the battle my unit was normal (no insane stats).

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Similar issue while I'm the one casting confusion.  

 

First confusion, attack goes into the negative. 

Second cast put it back into positive AND doubled the number. 

Third cast doubled that number... Needless to say I was squished like a snotling.

 

Example:  Enemy has 40 or so attack (sadly I don't recall the enemy nor its exact attack rating).  First confusion gives it -71 attack.  Second confusion gives it +142 attack, third gives it +284 attack, etc.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah.  I had a shaman cast confusion on my dragon a few times....   280+ attack with a dragon!!  and both the dragon's abilities are based on its attacks :)  I'm interested to know what's happening to cause this to happen (the attack increase).  What is the confusion spell supposed to do??  I haven't been able to learn it yet.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Funny same thing happened to me, I had a sand golem that had confusion cast on him by a troll shaman two times. However instead of his attack value going down it went up and I destroyed the entire troll force with nothing but my sand golem.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting dawgs4ever, reply 3
For what it's worth - I just encountered the same thing, but the troll shaman actually cast confusion on me 4 times.  With the first cast of confusion, I would go into - attack.  With the 2nd confusion, I returned to my normal attack.  With the third, I again went negative.  With the 4th, I went back to normal.  So it was like casting confusion and then dispelling it with the 2nd cast.  After the battle my unit was normal (no insane stats).
End of dawgs4ever's quote

 

This is what happened to me.. I ended the battle with 70K attack.  The unit reverted to normal after 2 turns.   Strange

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

I mentioned this in beta 4.   It was great fighting off guys.. blast them with confusion and a spell that took 2 mana (area attack) and everything rolled over for my empire.

 

I can't remember what spell it was since I have not played in about a month..  That spell seemed way too powerful though.