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[Bug Report] Composite Longbows usable with Simple Weapon Proficiency

I'm sure there used to be an official bug report thread...

Anyway, it looks like Composite Longbow has managed to somehow make its way into classing as a simple weapon. I've only tested with a small range of classes, but it doesn't appear as proficient for wizards who have a specific list, but does appear so on classes with simple weapon proficiency.

And I just tested on a blank character, adding only a level of Wizard and a composite longbow, and that character's not proficient, so include more information about the character, because there's something else going on.

I just tested with a Sorcerer that does get Simple Weapon Proficiency and they are not proficient with Longbows. You sure your character's race is not a Elf that gets Longbow and Composite Longbow proficiency?

Well... I span up a clean VM and used a spare license to go through and install everything one item at a time.

The result is, before I install the Pathfinder Pack (v1.6), all is good. Once installed, I get the bug (as seen on screenshot attached).

I've not added any of my own files to the build yet, so definitely not a conflict from there, the only stuff currently present is LWD based and the community pack.

Test character is a human sorcerer (arcane bloodline) with non-bow related feats and no special extras. All books and options are unticked in hero settings.

Bizarrely, whilst it isn't applying the non-prof penalty to the composite longbow (yet is for the longbow, as seen), the wNoProf field still has the penalty listed correctly, and the comp. longbow still shows up as a non-proficient weapon when purchasing.

I just tested again and yeah when the Community Pack is present a Composite Longbow changes from a Martial to Simple weapon. But only after its added to a character. I can't currently figure out what is doing this. I just searched for all the obvious methods of changing a Pick tag and I find nothing. In addition this is happening when NO Sources are active.

@Mathias can you think of any non-obvious ways to have weapon get converted from wProfReq.Martial to wProfReq.Simple?

Finally found it. The problem lies in an item called "Compound Bow", wMHCombow, in COM_PackModern - Path Heroes.user

Here's the code in Hero Lab - it's for weapons like the Aldori Dueling Sword:

Code:

      ~ Look through all the weapons we count as - if any of them are an easier

      ~ proficiency level, use that instead

      ~ NOTE - foreach thing in BaseWep is slow because of the number of things

      ~         we have, so we want to avoid doing this as much as possible. If

      ~         the weapon only has one IsWeapon tag, that's it's own tag, so

      ~         there's no need to look for any other weapons at all.

      if (tagcount[IsWeapon.?] > 1) then

        foreach thing in BaseWep where tagids[IsWeapon.?,"|"]

          if (eachthing.tagis[wProfReq.Martial] <> 0) then

            if (tagis[wProfReq.Exotic] <> 0) then

              perform tagreplace[wProfReq.?,wProfReq.Martial]

              endif

          elseif (eachthing.tagis[wProfReq.Simple] <> 0) then

            if (tagis[wProfReq.Exotic] + tagis[wProfReq.Martial] <> 0) then

              perform tagreplace[wProfReq.?,wProfReq.Simple]

              endif

            endif

          nexteach

        endif

So because the Compound Bow has IsWeapon.wCompLong, and is a simple weapon, composite longbows become a simple weapon. That weapon also has IsWeapon.wLongbow, but because the Longbow only has one IsWeapon tag of its own, it doesn't run this test.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mathias (Post 240512)

Finally found it. The problem lies in an item called "Compound Bow", wMHCombow, in COM_PackModern - Path Heroes.user

Nice find! Thats sort of crazy. I had looked at that weapon as it was one of the few places to have the wCompLong ID. But I was like how does a "IsWeapon" tag change the proficiency. Well now I know. :)

This will be fixed in the next update....