Drake charge
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Hello,

Those familiar with Jarulf's Guide might know that the Drake's charge does only very little damage, has 500% tohit, and causes no knockback like the Horned Demon's charge does. The low damage is the result of Drakes having listed 0 as base damage for secondary attacks. In an attempt to correct this, I gave Drakes a substantial base damage for secondary attacks. This didn't work. Strangely enough, close observation showed that Drakes actually never hit with their charge!

Looking at the code, it is shown that the Drakes charge is almost identical to the one for Horned Demons. They just start closer, and skip the knockback part. They should do a normal melee attack as part of the charge. Letting the Drakes start from larger distances had no results: the charge still never caused a hit. Giving the Horned Demon attack type to a Drake did correct the problem: now it had a regular charge, with hit and knockback. But this, ofcourse, made them loose their own characteristic walking pattern.

The same occurs with any bosses that have the Drake attacktype, btw.

Since I wanted to have Drakes a real charge attack, some more experiments were done with the code. Unfortunately this never produced the desired results, and usually a crash. It is as if Drakes do not find their target on the spot, and thus skip the melee part, while Horned Demons do.

So I ask again: has anyone ever witnessed this in regular Diablo or Hellfire? It should be pretty obvious for high AC characters, as those should seldom be hit by normal attacks, but very frequently by the Drake's charge (because of the 500% tohit).
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Drake charge - by Zenda - 01-11-2004, 02:12 PM
Drake charge - by Cytrex - 01-11-2004, 02:49 PM
Drake charge - by Jarulf - 01-11-2004, 05:41 PM
Drake charge - by Daemon - 01-11-2004, 06:47 PM
Drake charge - by Zenda - 01-12-2004, 12:09 AM
Drake charge - by Thecla - 01-15-2004, 09:39 AM
Drake charge - by Zenda - 01-15-2004, 07:25 PM
Drake charge - by Cytrex - 01-16-2004, 02:32 PM
Drake charge - by Zenda - 01-18-2004, 04:07 PM
Drake charge - by Thecla - 01-19-2004, 08:24 AM
Drake charge - by Draconis - 01-19-2004, 10:32 AM
Drake charge - by Jarulf - 01-19-2004, 01:22 PM
Drake charge - by Thecla - 01-19-2004, 11:01 PM
Drake charge - by LemmingofGlory - 01-20-2004, 12:02 AM
Drake charge - by Thecla - 01-20-2004, 01:39 AM
Drake charge - by ArthurDent - 01-20-2004, 06:26 AM
Drake charge - by Attika - 01-20-2004, 06:23 PM
Drake charge - by Zenda - 01-20-2004, 08:58 PM
Drake charge - by Nightwind - 01-21-2004, 02:33 AM
Drake charge - by Thecla - 01-21-2004, 07:49 AM
Drake charge - by ArthurDent - 01-21-2004, 12:47 PM
Drake charge - by Zenda - 01-21-2004, 02:36 PM
Drake charge - by Cytrex - 01-21-2004, 04:26 PM
Drake charge - by Thecla - 01-21-2004, 09:08 PM
Drake charge - by Nightwind - 01-22-2004, 03:11 AM
Drake charge - by Cytrex - 01-22-2004, 02:09 PM
Drake charge - by Nightwind - 01-23-2004, 06:29 AM
Drake charge - by Zenda - 01-23-2004, 08:47 PM
Drake charge - by Cytrex - 01-23-2004, 11:06 PM

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