Heyo!

Many special attacks in the game have not been working for a year or more now. Several others have been acting strange or otherwise not doing what they were intended to do. Others were simply too effective for their level.

The following updates will be live as of 2:30am Friday in Platinum and Prime. TF will follow tomorrow if nothing major explodes.

Please note that these changes only apply to those special attacks that use the core Special Attack system. While most critters are now updated to use this system, there are still a few that use specialized hard-coded special attacks, and those will be addressed as they are identified.



(1) Special attacks should now observe basic combat rules and restrictions, such as not being usable in safe rooms, or against targets that are not normally eligible for combat.

(2) Special attack skill ranks should now scale much closer to the critter's standard attacks. In one or two cases, this may actually be an upgrade. In most cases, this will either have very little noticeable change (they were already set in that range) or be a reduction in the effectiveness of these attacks. In a few cases, a very severe reduction in the effectiveness.

(3) The default system for choosing targets for special attacks has been altered from a completely random choice to using logic similar to normal attack AI. Note that this only applies to default targeting; several special attacks do use custom target acquisition logic, and these will not be affected.


Here is a list of critters currently updated for these fixes. A few more will follow in the next day or two:

Ghouls
Nipo Oshu
Scavenger Trolls
Vipers
Dinego
Skunks
Storm Bulls
Dobek Moruryns
Skeletal Sailors
Boas
Malchatar
Unyns
Westanuryn
Germish'din
Lachs
Wir Alyden
Frost Bears
Angiswaerd
Death Squirrels
Crags & Tendrils
Scythewing moths
Bone Mastiffs
Blood Wraiths
Forest Gryphons
Wormwood Vines
Bloodthorn Vines
Retch Fiends
Plague Wraiths
Stone Throwing Imps
Snow Hawks
All Dragon Priest varieties
Black Goblins
Evil Traders
Tree Toads

In addition, several critters from quests were updated.


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