There appears to be some sort of corruption that happens when an opponent's fortress is overrun (by raiders, in my case). My first hero has her items erased, and sometimes disappears from the armies/items screen entirely. There was also an instance where the 'Lo Pan begins casting the spell of return' popup would not dismiss. I'm on 5.72, but this happened in 5.71 as well. I'll post back if I can get a reproducible save game.
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I had to MoMTweaker the game a bit to engineer the situation, so that might make this savegame invalid. I moved a raider stack next to Kali's fortress and set their destination to the city. I set her gold and mana to 1, changed all of her fortress units to engineers, and then moved them outside of the fortress. (Of course I didn't need to change them to engineers, but my first attempt to just weaken her forces without moving them was unsuccessful).
After the raiders defeat Kali, my first hero disappears from the armies screen.
Thanks!
Found the problem. When monsters destroy a city, the city destruction (which triggers the "wizard is defeated" screen) happens immediately while in all other cases it happens after battle. The "defeated" screen overwrites combat data in memory - it's not supposed to display before the combat end procedure is finished. This did cause problems in the past too because it resulted in the same city getting destroyed twice, second one corrupting memory, then I fixed it by skipping the second destruction. So now I changed that to skip the first instead.
Bug report. I tried starting a barbarian nation, and one of my swordsmen started with chaos channels (flying), which was kind of nifty. Unfortunately, he also was under stasis, and thus useless. I tried restarting with various options, and the second swordsman was always CC'd and stasised. I made a new MOM folder (with COM 571 and the optional files) and barbs were working again. Then I started a gnoll game, played a bit, then started another barb nation, and got the chaos channels again. It seems that when playing a game, something overwrites memory. Or maybe one of the wizards is casting corruption and hitting RAM...
Do you want a savegame, or the whole MOM folder? Maybe comparing the files will lead to the bug.
October 18th, 2019, 17:07
(This post was last modified: October 18th, 2019, 17:15 by Seravy.)
I've observed even more serious problems when exiting from the game and returning to the main menu so I recommend not doing that.
While I'd like to say I can fix this globally I don't think so - the main menu is a separate executable, magic.exe, while the game itself is wizards.exe. What happens is, after the map is generated, magic.exe executes wizards.exe then exits. When the "quit" button is used the same is done the other direction, magic.exe is started and wizars.exe stops. Other than saving the save file to disk at new game, they are basically separate running software which should not have any effect on each other, except in DOS that wasn't so simple... I can of course specifically make sure any new units have the flags set to zero, probably these problems come from the fact some variables are not properly reset to zero when starting a new game. I assume DOSBOX is nice enough to load things into an already zeroed memory but when the game runs its other half, that does not. Or not, the bug was very simple, when I excluded the effect of Alchemy from Barbarian Swordmsmen I accidentally also included the line that sets the value to zero in the exclusion. That byte contains the weapon type, any chaos channel enchantments stasis and even undead status. This will be fixed in the next version. Quote:5.73
October 29th, 2019, 06:01
(This post was last modified: October 29th, 2019, 06:14 by Sapher.)
 (August 28th, 2019, 00:41)Seravy Wrote: 5.7 I just found a rare spell in a lair before 1407...(i'll post it on youtube in 2-3h..) |