03-19-2003, 01:11 PM
Isolde,Mar 19 2003, 11:12 AM Wrote:the reason your merc will display with zero life is because d2 keeps track of fractional hp and your merc probably had somewhere between 0 and 1 life. the merc screen doesn't round life less than 1 to 1 the same way the character screen does. If I am not mistaken (and stuff has not changed) doesn't the game (at least in some places) consider someone/something with less than 1 life as dead? Or has it changed? Or will it not end up as working correctly? I thought that in part the bug with monsters not dieing with "0" life and fighitng on for ever was due to such problems (they could not be hit or damaged with melee attacks but with a spell they died for real at once).
another possibility is that the server sends hp of monsters to the client in percentages, not exact numbers, and anything less than 1% is sent as 0%.
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