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[BUG] Air shrills lightning

March 30, 2013 9:47:40 AM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

Air shrills have lightning attack they usually use at the start of the battle. However, display of that spell is wrong. It usually shows lightning effect on one unit, but it actually hits another. Another unit loses its hp and does the 'hit' sound but, lightning effect shows on the wrong unit.

It's tactical battle bug so I don't really have a save for it. It should be easy to recreate though, just attack a group of air shrills with at least 3 units and watch the start of the battle.

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BrianLightfoot
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Reply #1 March 31, 2013 11:46:13 AM
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I think I saw this too.  I thought my eyes were just playing tricks on me.

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Reply #2 March 31, 2013 1:36:30 PM
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If I recall correctly, this was reported in the FE beta also, but never got fixed.

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Reply #3 March 31, 2013 2:35:36 PM
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I always thought that was an intended effect for the shrills. In the description of the spell they use, static blast, it states, "Lighting strikes a random enemy group..." You can tell which enemy was aimed for by seeing the little lightning effect around it, but at times the damage goes to another. The description was why I always just brushed off that little issue, but it may be a bug. 

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Reply #4 March 31, 2013 3:08:46 PM
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I think it's a bug.  They fixed the problem where the flame dart animation ran from the left side of the screen to the target instead of from the casting champion to the target, so maybe they can fix this one.

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Sanati
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Reply #5 March 31, 2013 3:34:10 PM
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I'm pretty sure I'm not getting this bug. I see the lightning effect on a unit, they do the damaged recoil and their health bar appears to decrease. Every time as far as I've seen. Or are you saying the health bar decreasing is just visual and it's another unit actually losing health?

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Reply #6 March 31, 2013 3:51:15 PM
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Not the health bar. You get lightning effect on one unit, another one does 'ouch' sound and loses health. It looks like game randomly picks one unit to show lightning effect and then again randomly picks unit to apply damage (effect). Can be same unit if you get lucky with rolls, that's why it's better to have more units on your side to spot this bug.

 

Btw, it's a bug. Randomly hitting enemy unit does not mean that you see graphic effect on one unit and see another lose health.

 

Unfortunately, I ran out of air shrills in my current game but any save with 4+ army attacking several air shrills would do. Just attack and watch their first move.

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Reply #7 April 13, 2013 6:39:41 PM
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I'm still seeing this on .80, and now I just saw the same thing on the Storm spell cast by my sovereign.  The cloud and lightning effect were shown over one troll, then a different troll fell dead.

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Reply #8 April 13, 2013 6:49:34 PM
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The same thing happens with the Storm spell. The lightning will appear over one unit but a different unit will take damage or die.

 

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Reply #9 April 13, 2013 7:04:23 PM
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I noticed the same bug: The lighning effect is displayed on another unit then the once getting damage.

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