Petrify Misses ?

NTJedi · #1 July 29th, 2008, 06:16 AM

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Renojustin said:
Pretty sure True Ethereal is a hidden tag?

Actually it's not a hidden tag, unit 1149 and 1150 show the truly ethereal tag. The unit 1148, which is the first form, only has regular ethereal.

Renojustin · #2 July 29th, 2008, 06:17 AM

Going to guess that Petrify is a mundane attack then.

Kristoffer O · #3 July 29th, 2008, 06:20 AM

Or it might be impossible to petrify ethereals. THey are kind of squishy and intangible.

Renojustin · #4 July 29th, 2008, 06:21 AM

Then it would kind of suck for the Gorgon to be attacked by warriors from the Ether Gate.

Then again, Gorgon or The Aegis Petrify isn't the same as the spell, we know, because it doesn't paralyze anyone... it might be missing a tag that the spell has, who knows.

Kristoffer O · #5 July 29th, 2008, 06:22 AM

Interesting.

DigitalSin · #6 July 29th, 2008, 09:39 AM

Haha, you have to love a game where the devs are as interested in certain occurances in game as the players.

reverend · #7 July 29th, 2008, 09:45 AM

As someone who has to maintain year old, non-documented legacy code, I can tell you that THAT isn't as uncommon as one might hope.

Developers guessing the exact meaning of a few lines of code or finding that an obvious bugfix has sideeffect in completely unrelated code literally miles away. However, Illwinter still have the code and they're the ones that wrote it. But just today I looked through and cleaned up code I wrote last year - on more than one occasion I thought 'WTH was I thinking?'. And that was neat C# code with lots of commentaries...

NTJedi · #8 July 29th, 2008, 06:22 AM

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Kristoffer O said:
Or it might be impossible to petrify ethereals. THey are kind of squishy and intangible.

Sounds right... that's the direction I'm leaning.