Monster fear

[Jungle_Boy]

Were ny changes made to monster fear recently? It seems when monsters get afraid they stay afraid longer now. Specifically I noticed this with an Umber Hulk and Adunaphel the Quiet. I literally chased that umber hulk in multiple complete circles of the entire level and he never stopped being afraid. Adunaphel I got down to one or two stars and he got afraid and hid in the rock and never came out again while I cleared the whole level. He was at 7 stars when I gave up and left but he was still showing as afraid. This is in the August 15th nightly

[Magnate]

Were ny changes made to monster fear recently? It seems when monsters get afraid they stay afraid longer now. Specifically I noticed this with an Umber Hulk and Adunaphel the Quiet. I literally chased that umber hulk in multiple complete circles of the entire level and he never stopped being afraid. Adunaphel I got down to one or two stars and he got afraid and hid in the rock and never came out again while I cleared the whole level. He was at 7 stars when I gave up and left but he was still showing as afraid. This is in the August 15th nightly

Thanks for the report - I don't think this was a conscious change, but may be a side effect of some refactoring of the mon_timed code.

[Nomad]

I've just encountered this same issue, also with an Umber hulk. Not sure it happens every time, but I was able to replicate the effect by zapping another hulk with a wand of scare monster.

[Magnate]

I've just encountered this same issue, also with an Umber hulk. Not sure it happens every time, but I was able to replicate the effect by zapping another hulk with a wand of scare monster.

I find it hard to believe that it's specific to umber hulks (though that wouldn't be the strangest quirk in the code). Let's see if it be replicated on orcs or trolls or whatever.

[Nomad]

I find it hard to believe that it's specific to umber hulks (though that wouldn't be the strangest quirk in the code). Let's see if it be replicated on orcs or trolls or whatever.

I think the hulks are just the most visible because you can't trap them in a corner and kill them. After zapping a few random monsters I came across, it does affect others, but it seems to be intermittent: a Forest troll recovered as normal, but a Vampire lord stayed afraid even after I rested 9999 turns; 9-headed hydra stayed afraid, Stegocentipede recovered.

[Timo Pietilä]

I think the hulks are just the most visible because you can't trap them in a corner and kill them. After zapping a few random monsters I came across, it does affect others, but it seems to be intermittent: a Forest troll recovered as normal, but a Vampire lord stayed afraid even after I rested 9999 turns; 9-headed hydra stayed afraid, Stegocentipede recovered.

Sounds like higher the level they are afraid longer. Kind of opposite that it should be. Some logic error somewhere?

[CunningGabe]

I think I see the problem -- I had put in a check to prevent overflow, but ended up in most cases setting the fear or whichever effect to its maximum amount instead. I'll push a fix shortly!

EDIT: by the way, the weirdness of which monsters recovered probably has to do with the fact that if a monster is afraid and it has no valid moves, then it becomes unafraid.