Purple Sun of Xereus moving slower when Overcast?

[Sneakimus]

I just noticed in my campaign that when I overcast the Purple Sun of Xereus, it seemed to move slower and stay longer in place than when cast normally, thereby racking up more kills.

Usually when I cast the Purple Sun of Xereus it'll speed off quite fast, usually missing a lot of units, but when overcast it remained over the enemy blob for longer and racked up a lot of extra kills.

I knew the spell had a longer duration when overcast, but I did not realize it would also move slower as well.

Do more Vortex spells work like this, wherein longer duration translates into slower and less erratic movement?

[Golanth]

Little Waagh, Bladewind, Purple Sun and Golden Hounds are the 4 that do this and to my knowledge are the only ones. Of those only bladewind is really worth trying to overcast and it's questionable at best unless you're sure of the direction and blob.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Huh. You're 100% right. Took a look at the game files (battle_vortexs_tables) and Xereus regular moves at speed 4 and Xereus overcast (which is, technically speaking, a 100% different spell with its own entries for absolutely everything) moves with speed 3.

Flame Storm overcast moves at standard speed, but its overcast also deals more damage.
Skull Storm overcast moves at standard speed, but apparently has increased AOE.
Golden Hounds moves at a slower speed when overcast.
Bladewind also moves slower when overcast.
EDIT: Curse of Da Bad Moon also moves slower when overcast


I think that's all the overcast vortices. So it's kinda consistent in that increased duration means slower speed, but also not fully and also never explained in-game.

[DecayWolf]

Last time when I did OC, it didn't slowed down, guess was about 1 year ago.
So it's a somewhat new change.

I wish CA would make it clear when they do such changes.

[Lunos]

That is extremely useful information to know. Thank you for bringing it up and thanks to Ruinae for checking the game files.

[Elitewrecker PT]

I didn't know this.