Hiravias refuses to cast Returning Storm.

[Pelmaleon]

While paused I queue up the action and it has the Returning Storm icon, but as soon as I unpause he stands idle with ellipsis over his head. He also refuses to cast it while unpaused. Please fix.

[Ymarsakar]

One work around I heard about is to turn on the AI and check the box for on rest abilities. Don't know if the class box needs to be filled with a type.

 

I would go back to the PX1 2.0 white march build. It was more playable even with the stash disappearing.

Edited September 7, 2015 by Ymarsakar

[Pelmaleon]

Thanks, I'll try it out and report back.

[Pelmaleon]

It appears that the AI combination of "Damage" + "Aggressive" allows him to cast it. I think it more has to do with "Damage", because Returning Storm is one of the spells "Damage" AI uses. I suppose I'll use this workaround for now. Thanks for the tip.

Edited September 7, 2015 by Pelmaleon

[Ymarsakar]

You're welcome, glad it worked. But the PX1 2.0 white march didn't have this bug, as an FYI to others.

[lonelornfr]

The same thing happens with a vast number of ability / spells since 2.01, i guess this is the same bug for all of them.

 

On a side note, you really need to discipline that punk Hiravias, casting returning storm is not his decision to make.

[Ymarsakar]

Whatever code they used to do the patch, seems to have broken their database inside the game itself, affecting many of the stuff in the objectbundles, including effects, items, even some visual effects, and even the AI it seems. Or maybe it's not the AI but just the talents/spells the AI is attached to.

 

As for the AI system, a more flexible and powerful system would allow if/then logic arguments to apply to auto attacks and individual spell casts. In BG2 and IE games, I often wrote scripts to automate my tactics for certain classes, such as casting a wizard's melee spell if a person gets within x meters or is engaging the wizard in melee. So instead of casting 4 buffs when I want the wizard to do melee, I just have him move near an enemy and it does it automatically. The script initially refused to accept human interrupt commands, until I figured out how to interrupt the script as it was running merely by canceling the current action and giving it a manual command. It then executes that manual command before resuming the sequence ai script. If I recall, the trick was to delay the script update by 3-4 seconds, about the time of a single round in BG2 which was six seconds, which allows one action to proceed without it being interrupted by a script command as the script doesn't even update until the action is done. But I think the Pillars Ai has some of that, it's just not very transparent, flexible, or customizable.

 

Setting individual parameters for each wizard buff, for priest heals, and for various dps/stun effects, can be very useful to help the tactics flow out without a lot of micro. The way they write AI scripts for the enemies is fine, as the enemy just has auto attack and maybe 1-2 special abilities. The AI gets a lot weaker when it comes to player classes which have a number of abilities that must be used in the right order.

Edited September 7, 2015 by Ymarsakar

[Messier-31]

While paused I queue up the action and it has the Returning Storm icon, but as soon as I unpause he stands idle with ellipsis over his head. He also refuses to cast it while unpaused. Please fix.

 

Having the exact same issue.

[Derek M]

Hey guys, this is an issue we are aware of and the team is working on a fix for the caster centered spells/abilities.

 

Thanks for your support.

[Elric Galad]

The funny thing is I discovered it while fighting a party of 4 druids that were casting it repeatedly and destroying my party meanwhile my own druid stayed idle.

 

Not fair ^^

[Skie Nightfall]

It appears that the AI combination of "Damage" + "Aggressive" allows him to cast it. I think it more has to do with "Damage", because Returning Storm is one of the spells "Damage" AI uses. I suppose I'll use this workaround for now. Thanks for the tip.

Works for barbaric yell too.

Seems silly that fully disabling the AI doesn't allow you to use those spells/abilities.

[Torm51]

 

It appears that the AI combination of "Damage" + "Aggressive" allows him to cast it. I think it more has to do with "Damage", because Returning Storm is one of the spells "Damage" AI uses. I suppose I'll use this workaround for now. Thanks for the tip.

Works for barbaric yell too.

Seems silly that fully disabling the AI doesn't allow you to use those spells/abilities.

 

Yell only effects one enemy now though.  Frenzy can be activated manually you just have to be close enough to an enemy.

[Anagsa]

I'm also affected by this bug. Hiravias doesn't cast returning storm or relentless storm, and my wizard doesn't cast death ring. I have changed ia options but doesn't work. Waiting for the fix.

[AndreaColombo]

It's fixed in 2.02 beta.