Ice comet text isn't accurate ever since Kunark release
 

"Skin freezes" should be

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/spell.html?id=732

Not quite, the earliest spell file that uses the "massive shards of deadly ice" text is in the Epic Quest patch of September 19, 2000.

and moving this to regular bug reports since this is not a velious spell or patch issue.

April 17, 2000 (Pre-Kunark) spdat:

Spetember 19, 2001 (Epic Quest Patch):

April 2001 (Mid-Velious) spdat:

Hehe ok, mid Kunark ;)

Should just be be a simple string replacement for this fix right?

Is this project kept on GIT where i can make pull requests to speed along bug fixes? Dev here

bump

overdue

This thread can use some attention. Overdue for such a quick fix. Would improve classic experience for this era.

Ice comet text makes dreams come true

way overdue

This is not a "quick fix" since it involves an era change. In order to maintain consistency between eras for future servers, a version of the spell needs to be made with the appropriate changes, tied to one of our era steps so that the change is made at the correct time. In any case it would be a content guy to do this.

wouldn't be easier to just change the string and, since how future servers rarely appear, just change the string in the next future server? It's literally just a string replacement, if done this way - and it's just aesthetics, so future servers wouldn't be in a pandemic if they forgot to change it - no different than how p99 forgot to change it the other way, and it seems to be low priority if not changed at this point in time, already? KISS

I do C#/VB/JS, but surely the concept is the same with C++