Doctor Octopus bug - Armed and Dangerous

Dayv
Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
edited December 2014 in MPQ Bugs and Technical Issues
According to the description for Doc Ock's green skill at five covers, it deals X damage, then stuns a random enemy for 3 turns, reduces enemy AP, and destroys a countdown.

However, the effects are not actually applied in this order. The stun will sometimes be applied to a character who is downed by the AoE damage, wasting its effect.

The skill should be re-coded to use the order of operations in its description.

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  • MojoWild
    MojoWild Posts: 765 Critical Contributor
    Or re-word the order of description. icon_e_smile.gif
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    MojoWild wrote:
    Or re-word the order of description. icon_e_smile.gif
    That would be the easy fix, true... icon_e_biggrin.gif

    Making it work as worded would be preferable, though.
  • MojoWild
    MojoWild Posts: 765 Critical Contributor
    While he's doing all that, he should also brush Beast, water Groot, and give Wolverine a manicure...
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    And stop sucking Fury's you know what.
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    GothicKratos wrote:
    And stop sucking Fury's you know what.
    ... cigar?
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    Back to the original point, it's also important to do this in the right order for countdown destruction. This is harder to verify as a player, but if damage is being applied last, it could destroy a countdown from a character who's going to be downed (clearing all of their countdowns) instead of one from a remaining character.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    His abilities are not a list of sequential events. This is a description of abilities for 5 green covers. This means that all the abilities happen at once.
  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    stephen43084 wrote:
    His abilities are not a list of sequential events. This is a description of abilities for 5 green covers. This means that all the abilities happen at once.
    It is explicitly written as having a sequence: damage first, then the other effects. To not resolve the damage before the other effects weakens an already somewhat unpopular character.
  • CNash
    CNash Posts: 952 Critical Contributor
    There's no way to justify its current behaviour. The game should not, under any circumstances, attempt to apply a stun to a character that is downed. The fact that Armed and Dangerous can pick a downed character as its target for the stun effect is a bug.

    Now, if the effect happened in a different order - stun, then damage - then this would be questionable behaviour but otherwise fine; it's simply bad luck that the character you stunned then got downed by the damage portion of the ability.

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