Killing Deirex during initial cutscene

[CamDawg]

Working on the Saemon stuff reminds me of a bug I run into quite a bit--Deirex. Once you enter his area, he initiates dialogue and a cutscene starts. He imprisons you during the cutscene and sends you to meet Jaraxle.

 

... except that, on a number of occasions, a couple of my party members will attack and kill him during the cutscene. The cutscene uses this:

 

IF
 True()
THEN
 RESPONSE #100
CutSceneId("JARLICH")
Wait(1)
ClearActions(Player2)
ClearActions(Player3)
ClearActions(Player4)
ClearActions(Player5)
ClearActions(Player6)
MoveToPoint([551.1046])
ForceSpell(Player1,LICH_IMPRISON)
Wait(1)
FadeToColor([20.0],0)
END

 

One of the scripters help me out here--is the Wait(1)--or possibly the brief time before Deirex initiates dialogue--allowing the party to fire off actions which are subsequently not subject to ClearAction()? Can we reorder the actions to fix this and/or use ClearAllActions() instead? Player1 isn't an issue, as (s)he has her own action block in the cutscene and I've never had Player1 go after Deirex.

[devSin]

We could clear all actions before the cutscene (might work, might not), but I would prefer making Deirex neutral and then have him Enemy() after you reappear from Jarlaxle's plane (this is basically the same as the githyanki attack -- making them neutral fixes everything).

 

Extending the script to give Player2-6 something to do would probably also work (IF True() THEN R#100 CutsceneID(PlayerN) Wait(1) END).

[CamDawg]

I like simple solutions.

 

IF 
 !Global("JarlaxleHQ","GLOBAL",0)
 !Allegiance("jarlich",ENEMY)
THEN
 RESPONSE #100
ActionOverride("jarlich",Enemy())
END

 

// deirex killed during cutscene fix 1/2; see jarlich.cre
EXTEND_BOTTOM ~ar2207.bcs~ ~bg2fixpack/baf/ar2207.baf~

// deirex killed during cutscene fix 2/2; see 2207.bcs
COPY_EXISTING ~jarlich.cre~ ~override~
 WRITE_BYTE 0x270 128 // allegiance: neutral
 BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

[aVENGER_(RR)]

We could clear all actions before the cutscene (might work, might not), but I would prefer making Deirex neutral and then have him Enemy() after you reappear from Jarlaxle's plane (this is basically the same as the githyanki attack -- making them neutral fixes everything).

 

Yup, adding a ClearAllActions() before StartCutSceneMode() in Deirex' dialogue state #1 should probably do the trick.