Post-Anadramatis fiends infighting

[gatperdut]

The Cornugons + Pit Fiends that ambush you after dealing with Anadramatis and obtaining the Breath Potion go at each others' throats without even a look the party's way. As soon as they spawn they begin attacking each other and it's possible to just stand there until the only survivor is left, who will then attack the party.

My party had Protection from Evil on at the time, but I did a quick test by resting before triggering the event and it made no difference.

I imagine it might have something to do with the Blood War, because Cornugons are demons and Pit Fiends are devils?

[DavidW]

No, they’re both baatezu (=devils). Sound like a bug; can you post your weidu.log?

[gatperdut]

Well, TIL their proper affiliation

Here's the weidu.log. 

WeiDU (1).log

[gatperdut]

I went through the changelogs this time before posting, but I didn't see it mentioned. Is it possible this slipped through the cracks over the weeks?

[DavidW]

Possible; at this distance I don't recall. Try to reproduce it and see what happens!

[JDSilvergun]

This was mentioned before, and I've seen it as well. In case it was not addressed, the link below the video in this post has another video of this happening.

 

[DavidW]

Since this is nine versions of SCS ago, I'll repeat the request for someone to verify it happens on 35.19.

[Anterwaare]

Fresh 35.20 install, I checked Abazigail's lair and fiends still fight each other.

 

 

Edited September 25 by Anterwaare

[Anterwaare]

That's probably now very helpful in troubleshooting, but I ctrl-m'ed all the fight participants and replaced their .CRE and .BCS with versions from SCS 34.3. That made them behave as expected. 

[ScrambledKhegs]

It is a Blood War thing, kind of. They're all incorrectly assigned CHAOTIC_EVIL alignment and are scripted to attack said alignment:

IF
    OR(3)
        See([0.0.DEMONIC.0.0.0.CHAOTIC_EVIL])  // <-- Here
        See([0.0.0.TANARI.0.0.CHAOTIC_EVIL])
        See([0.0.0.0.0.SUMMONED_DEMON.CHAOTIC_EVIL])
THEN
    RESPONSE #100
        AttackOneRound(LastSeenBy(Myself))
END

 

[Anterwaare]

Thanks, I can now easily modify them if I encounter instances of weird behavior.

[ScrierOne]

In fact, it seems SCS assigns most Baatezu in the game the Chaotic Evil alignment. I made an override "hotfix" with all the Baatezu creature files I could think to find.

BaatezuLE.7z

Edited October 23 by ScrierOne

[Anterwaare]

On 10/23/2024 at 9:00 PM, ScrierOne said:

In fact, it seems SCS assigns most Baatezu in the game the Chaotic Evil alignment. I made an override "hotfix" with all the Baatezu creature files I could think to find.

BaatezuLE.7z 2.34 kB · 3 downloads

I used your fix, appreciated. 

[DavidW]

Thanks, that's very helpful - I was just about to try to hunt it down.

Fixed locally, will be in 35.21. You can hotfix before install by dropping the attached into stratagems/fiend.

fiend_shared.tph