SCS 35.10 - possible bug in LoB mode

[StummvonBordwehr]

Hi there

Dont know if this one has already been reported, but a game with 35.10 version installed while playing on LoB ran into a weird bug in Trademeet:

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/1207676/#Comment_1207676

The narrative is a bit long, but the bug is described in the post. 

[Anterwaare]

Happened to me too, the wizard at the north east entrance seems very keen on lightning bolting his friends and it turns them hostile, I avoid this area completely.

[jmerry]

Not new, not restricted to high difficulties. Unless this is a case of a fix not quite working, that is. The generic mage AI is perfectly willing to use indiscriminate attacks and any attack on the INNOCENT soldiers by a non-enemy is treated as a terrible crime that the PCs must be responsible for.

The creatures involved here are TRGRD01 (soldiers) and TRGRD02 (mage), and the problem is most likely to manifest when that mage rolls the Invoker kit.

I think the fix for this is an entry in mage/override/bg2/variable.2da. Set the appropriate variables, and this mage will no longer use indiscriminate attack spells that hurt his allies.

[DavidW]

Not quite - Indiscriminate is false by default and this mage doesn't have it set. It'll be a script loophole around use of AoE by non-enemies. I'll have a look.

[DavidW]

I can't track this down. Every use of WIZARD_LIGHTNING_BOLT I can find is gated by an Allegiance(Myself,ENEMY) block. 

I'll try to reproduce in-game.

[polytope]

Out of interest, that particular wizard's script (TRGRD02.cre using MAGE8A.bcs) references the use of lightning bolts in the original game, but then he doesn't have any memorized, unlike most mages who use it, so it looks like the original game devs hit on this same bug in different circumstances once long ago.