[Bug] 0.50 massive leveling and damage calc bugs

from Elemental Forums

Bought your wonderful game last night.  Ive been pretty underleveled in my first game, custom faction and leader and all that.  Been starting quests and finding myself woefully outmatched, nothing some save/load abuse cannot fix in my experience.   But I came back to a quest involving finding Agola the Lich (may not be how you spell that), whom i am assuming has something to do with the Plague random event.  Anyway, after auto-beating him, whomever gets the last hit gets an absolutely MASSIVE XP reward.

At first, i thought it was just a simple beneficial glitch, but then i ran out of perks to give my guy.  with 1200 perks left to distribute.  My character was level 1230 or so, that i could see in the background.  But i could not x out and just leave the perks there.  Nor could i do anything but kill the process to quit.  It wouldnt respond to alt-f4

after i wrote off that quest, i went back in to attempt another quest i had left til later.  But had i been paying attention, i would have known why i found it difficult.  It has to do with the quest involving getting a ring back from a den of wolves.  they were doing mindless amounts of damage.  when i looked down at the stats, i noticed that they had no defense and 1 hp each (of four wolves.) but they were swinging for 23x3.  At this point, i have decided to let you know about this issue.  if you like i can provide the save or any files you wish.  I can even fight the battle with the wolves and then go and beat the lich, and after send you my debug file. 

So far. I love the game.  Usually i like to break my games, finding exploits and such.  Its refreshing to find it pre-broken.

:D

 as a suggestion, you may want to add a way to hold over perk points til the next level.  As the idea of dominating the landscape with an obscenely powerful sovereign seems incredibly fun!
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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

http://imgur.com/a/NnhVb

heres a link to an album with images of the bugs.   

 

first image is wolves with wonky damage.  second through fourth image is the massive xp bug in various incarnations.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

One thing they could do to fix one of the problems here is to put a cap on the number of perks a hero can get, so that no matter what level you reach, you cannot run out of perks to take.  It would have to be variable cap based on the individual hero's amount of perks.  Even after they fix the massive XP bug, a hero could still legitimately level up past the number of perks available, which would still cause a player to run into the "Well, I'm stuck in a menu" problem.

Considering how much the XP bug's been reported, I'm surprised I haven't run into it yet.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

@Darxim- The lower you set your world difficulty, the more frequent it is.  If you are playing at normal world difficulty you will never see it.

This is fixed with 0.51.