weather and magical damage

[mr.hum]

I believe I've read somewhere that weather affected magical damage, but I can't find where! No post, nothing in the tuto...
For instance, do ice mage do more damage in a snow and blizzard environment?
What about fire mage? Lightning mage?

Thank you

[purplecharmanderz]

So this is mentioned in the game early on

That being said - I've seen nothing in my digging through the damage processes to say thats accurate. (edit: I've since found new areas i'll need to explore. Which may change things)

I have however seen a function that if it didn't get a 1x value returned right after being called - would cover this. So its very likely a case of "was a thing" or "was planned to be a thing" but then got removed/canceled.


Edit: Should note before someone mentions this being a disagreement with some of their experience - affinity also has a function tied to weather. That one i don't remember specifics for at the moment however.

[Jab]

Originally posted by purplecharmanderz:

Edit: Should note before someone mentions this being a disagreement with some of their experience - affinity also has a function tied to weather. That one i don't remember specifics for at the moment however.

I believe it's just increased/decreased hit accuracy relative to the weather based on affinity.

[grognardgary]

Originally posted by Jab:

Originally posted by purplecharmanderz:

Edit: Should note before someone mentions this being a disagreement with some of their experience - affinity also has a function tied to weather. That one i don't remember specifics for at the moment however.

I believe it's just increased/decreased hit accuracy relative to the weather based on affinity.

Which would possibly effect lightning mages but not aoe effects of fire and Ice mages Though in my experience ice mages tend to be a bit underwhelming.

[Jab]

Originally posted by grognardgary:

Originally posted by Jab:

I believe it's just increased/decreased hit accuracy relative to the weather based on affinity.

Which would possibly effect lightning mages but not aoe effects of fire and Ice mages Though in my experience ice mages tend to be a bit underwhelming.

Fire and ice mages can miss.
Ice mages are very good due to consistently damaging a wide amount of enemies. Due to the way staggering works in SOW against certain squads lightning/fire mages will sometimes hit rows/columns that don't have a lot. Ice mages tend to hit everything, and inflicting chill is great.
They're a great thing to put in squads where your heavy infantry have cold blooded, they make sure everything has SOME damage to proc the cold blooded buff. Though sorceresses due tend to be better for this as they go first turn even without the tech and even on defense.

[purplecharmanderz]

Originally posted by grognardgary:

Originally posted by Jab:

I believe it's just increased/decreased hit accuracy relative to the weather based on affinity.

Which would possibly effect lightning mages but not aoe effects of fire and Ice mages Though in my experience ice mages tend to be a bit underwhelming.

So ironically lightning mages are going to be the least affected by such just given having the highest skill modifier out of the trio. Though all 3 are affected in that regards

Ice is going to arguably be more consistent in hitting due to the nature of its AOE shape (being a small cross - think 1 tile, then 1 half tile in every cardinal direction) allowing up to 5 targets normally (or up to 7 max with weird positioning) vs the 3 (or 6 with weird positioning) the other 2 get. And have the second highest skill modifier in that group.

Adding to Jab's remarks more is what chill actually does - adding a 0.75x multiplier to any afflicted target's skill - makes afflicted targets easier to hit, easier to dodge, easier to crit, and harder to be crit by. Notably chill can also stack, up to 9x.

[Jab]

Originally posted by purplecharmanderz:

Notably chill can also stack, up to 9x.

Wow that is nice to know, i would have never guessed it stacked at all... does daze?

[purplecharmanderz]

Originally posted by Jab:

Originally posted by purplecharmanderz:

Notably chill can also stack, up to 9x.

Wow that is nice to know, i would have never guessed it stacked at all... does daze?

Daze does stack, similarly up to 9x.

Can't find the code for where it resets stacks, though just from experience i feel its at the very least when the round ends, like when fatigue resets.

Big note for daze in comparison - it applys a debuff to strength and magic, not damage directly. This means it ups incoming damage (significantly in magic's case) - but also does nothing for reducing outgoing damage of firearms.