Cleave and Monsters with dialogue
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:16 pm
Not sure if this is a bug or intentional, but I was just noticing this.
If you have the Cleave skill, and you attack 2 monsters at once, but one of them initiates dialogue (in this case it was the Rotting Corpse), then it doesn't seem to count as a "mob attack". After killing the first monster (Walking Corpse), I don't gain 3 AP, but instead I have to press on the dialogue-monster (Rotting Corpse) and it starts a new attack (after the dialogue of "Flesh!" and either of the "By the Shadow I'll Slay You!" or "Yuck! What are you and what is that smell" response choices). So it counts as 2 separate attacks, even though you are next to both monsters at the same time.
If you have the Cleave skill, and you attack 2 monsters at once, but one of them initiates dialogue (in this case it was the Rotting Corpse), then it doesn't seem to count as a "mob attack". After killing the first monster (Walking Corpse), I don't gain 3 AP, but instead I have to press on the dialogue-monster (Rotting Corpse) and it starts a new attack (after the dialogue of "Flesh!" and either of the "By the Shadow I'll Slay You!" or "Yuck! What are you and what is that smell" response choices). So it counts as 2 separate attacks, even though you are next to both monsters at the same time.
What happens is that the conversation script sets the monster to aggressive, which triggers the attack. I guess we could start using the new faction ratings after you have heard the banter of enough of the undead, to make all of them aggressive at once, hence not triggering the conversations.