- Dec 16, 2014
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I'm tired of sending actual bug reports and that only the 30% of them are read (linking a "proof" video and tracking the views of it is the key; two of them haven't been watched in months after the reports). People like @ics and some other mappers here once mentioned to have reported things and even received a reply from the TF Team, so I'd like to share one interesting bug which is related to Merasmus:
I'm updating this joke map to include an actual Merasmus Boss and more features, giving the map more stuff to offer since I made the mistake of rushing its first version.
After not finding a proper tutorial on how to create a spawnable Merasmus boss, I found a small article on the VDW which helped me create a simple "merasmus" entity spawned by a point_template, despite it claiming somewhere not to work this way. This then led me to add the Truce Mode, which only works if your map has the tf_logic_holiday set to the "Halloween" setting. The problem is that when it's set to Halloween, Merasmus doesn't seem to set you on fire when it uses its secondary attack, but it still damages and pushes you in the air. There's a small map I used to create my first Merasmus Boss which also helped me determine whether the "Halloween" setting is what causes the problem, and it is so. "None" and "Birthday" are the only Settings that don't avoid you from being set on fire, while "Halloween" is the only setting that enables the Truce Mode with SetMapForcedTruceDuringBossFight 1.
TL;DR: setting tf_logic_holiday to "Halloween" makes Merasmus not to set you on fire. If someone has gotten their reports to the TF Team read (or even replied), please report this one. It's kinda drustrating having a Boss that doesn't work properly because of a simple setting that enables Truce.
EDIT: turns out that the Afterburn is what's currently broken, affected on anything that uses it, not only Merasmus. I have a trigger_ignite entity that only damages me over time by igniting me, but there's no Afterburn during the Truce Mode.
I'm updating this joke map to include an actual Merasmus Boss and more features, giving the map more stuff to offer since I made the mistake of rushing its first version.
After not finding a proper tutorial on how to create a spawnable Merasmus boss, I found a small article on the VDW which helped me create a simple "merasmus" entity spawned by a point_template, despite it claiming somewhere not to work this way. This then led me to add the Truce Mode, which only works if your map has the tf_logic_holiday set to the "Halloween" setting. The problem is that when it's set to Halloween, Merasmus doesn't seem to set you on fire when it uses its secondary attack, but it still damages and pushes you in the air. There's a small map I used to create my first Merasmus Boss which also helped me determine whether the "Halloween" setting is what causes the problem, and it is so. "None" and "Birthday" are the only Settings that don't avoid you from being set on fire, while "Halloween" is the only setting that enables the Truce Mode with SetMapForcedTruceDuringBossFight 1.
TL;DR: setting tf_logic_holiday to "Halloween" makes Merasmus not to set you on fire. If someone has gotten their reports to the TF Team read (or even replied), please report this one. It's kinda drustrating having a Boss that doesn't work properly because of a simple setting that enables Truce.
EDIT: turns out that the Afterburn is what's currently broken, affected on anything that uses it, not only Merasmus. I have a trigger_ignite entity that only damages me over time by igniting me, but there's no Afterburn during the Truce Mode.
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