total health of bosses with multiple lives

BBG_Theory · **Author**

I got this message today .. quoting the discovered bug

"Hey. I dunno when this happened, but on FF2 #2, the bosses with multiple lives, instead of having their health divided by the number of lives they have, have their total health as the health for each life.

For instance, if Bill has 3 lives, and a total of 10000 health, normally, it'd be something like 3333 x3 health. With this glitch, Bill would have 10000 x3 health instead.

Anyways, just bringing it to your attention. Have a good day."

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I'm running RC1 from gethub and I am a little confused as to when it started doing this, {be it a beta rev change or steam update)

Obvious easy fix is to edit the configs that have multiple lives, but this is not a preferred fix I don't think......

anyone else seeing this? Is the config's health formula being ignored maybe??

from log I see this
L 06/16/2014 - 10:24:58: [freak_fortress_2.smx] [FF2] Malformed boss health formula, using default!

this is a typical config for a boss with 3 lives
"health_formula" "(((760+n)*n)^1.04)/3"

Wliu · 06-16-2014 , 21:16 Re: total health of bosses with multiple lives

I messed around with the health formula stuff a day ago, probably accidentally did something there.

BBG_Theory · 06-17-2014 , 00:22 Re: total health of bosses with multiple lives

ya know another thing I think I have noticed ever since Ravensbro got the multiple boss list going and you could have more than one boss list, is that I don't think random is indeed random and defaults to last on list. I am pretty sure this is true if you do a map change, it always falls to the last array. The voting for a boss list does seem to work, I just don't have a good feeling about it randomly selecting one of the boss arrays when there are multiple lists

this has nothing to do with above issue

Wliu · 06-17-2014 , 15:21 Re: total health of bosses with multiple lives

I've never exactly trusted FF2's random boss choosing. It seems to favor the last boss chosen a whole lot more than the other bosses.

Powerlord · 06-17-2014 , 17:48 Re: total health of bosses with multiple lives

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Originally Posted by Wliu

I've never exactly trusted FF2's random boss choosing. It seems to favor the last boss chosen a whole lot more than the other bosses.

You could, you know, fix it.

Wliu · 06-17-2014 , 19:35 Re: total health of bosses with multiple lives

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Originally Posted by Powerlord

You could, you know, fix it.

. I think I looked at it a while back, but got all confused when I couldn't even find GetRandomInt in the code (probably just missed it

).

Wliu · 06-17-2014 , 21:16 Re: total health of bosses with multiple lives

Regarding the first issue: It's definitely something wrong with CalcBossHealthMax. Looking into it.

Wliu · 06-17-2014 , 21:29 Re: total health of bosses with multiple lives

Try this. Another boss health formula change is that numbers under 0.01 are now allowed when dividing (eg 5/0.001 is now allowed). Don't know why it wasn't before (0 is still blocked, obviously).

friagram · *Last edited by friagram; 06-18-2014 at 00:57.*

Ideally you would store the bosses by index in an adt array, then getrandomint 0 sizeof -1

BBG_Theory · *Last edited by BBG_Theory; 06-18-2014 at 12:04.*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wliu

Try this. Another boss health formula change is that numbers under 0.01 are now allowed when dividing (eg 5/0.001 is now allowed). Don't know why it wasn't before (0 is still blocked, obviously).

I think the issue recently occurred in the beta chain. beta6 I think is OK as that is what a reverted back to (well, an edited / customized version of beta6). I'll try what you posted, when I can... but I bet we will all get busy soon when Valve breaks everything eminently with this Summer update