0011814: Pain's message inconsistent against invisible creatures

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0011814

[DCSS] Bug Report

minor

always

2019-01-03 19:33

2019-02-04 18:45

Reporter

Siegurt

View Status

public

Assigned To

ebering

Priority

normal

Resolution

done

Status

closed

Product Branch

0.23 ancient branch

Summary

0011814: Pain's message inconsistent against invisible creatures

Description

So all the other attack spells give an indicator when you hit an unseen creature with them, pain is notable in that hit or miss you get "Nothing appears to happen" this seems like a weird exception in and of itself, however when you kill something the message "Nothing appears to happen" occurs after you kill something aka:

Casting: Pain (safe; 2% risk of failure)
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
Aiming: Pain (safe; 2% risk of failure)
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line
Nothing appears to happen. Something hits you but does no damage.
Casting: Pain (safe; 2% risk of failure)
Confirm with . or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
Aiming: Pain (safe; 2% risk of failure)
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line
Reactivating autopickup.
You feel a bit more experienced. Nothing appears to happen.

It's a little odd/awkward in and of itself that pain intentionally gives you no indication of if you're hitting the right square or not (unlike other attack spells and weapons) but it's also clearly weird/awkward phrasing for the "Nothing appears to happen" message to be printed right after something drops dead at your feet.

I do get that both definition-wise and "flavor wise" pain is an enchantment on the monster rather than a standard attack (The rational being that you're not throwing something at them that needs to hit, but rather directing that something happen to them, like with confuse) and enchantments you can really usually only tell if they succeeded if you can see the target.

However since pain is functionally an attack spell, maybe we can make pain be an enchantment that gets attack-like messages, out of sheer practicality something like "bathed in an unholy light" which might logically be applied to something you can't see.

At very least I'd like enchantments that can cause death to not spit out "Nothing appears to happen" messages if it kills something, because it's just weird.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-01-03 19:33	Siegurt	New Issue
2019-01-27 00:08	ebering	Note Added: 0033010
2019-01-27 00:08	ebering	Status	new => resolved
2019-01-27 00:08	ebering	Resolution	open => done
2019-01-27 00:08	ebering	Assigned To	=> ebering
2019-02-04 18:44	Siegurt	Status	resolved => closed

Notes
(0033010) ebering (developer) 2019-01-27 00:08	0.23-a0-850-g4a3ee90

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