Blood Stains from misses

Nasrudith · 2013-09-19T22:17:00.000Z

I noticed this most often when using bows and unfletched arrows against squirrels - blood stains are generated when I have never even hit the target.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-09-19T22:42:43.000Z

Are you sure it’s a miss, not a grazing hit?

phaethon · 2013-09-20T01:57:18.000Z

I can confirm getting a “barely miss” message and still having blood on the ground. This applies to guns as well as arrows.

Master_Darius · 2013-09-20T03:25:36.000Z

Yeah, it’s a very old bug. I remember me noticing it when I played vanilla cataclysm.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-09-20T12:41:06.000Z

I’ve always seen this as just grazing the thing, not hitting it. That’s why blood is there.

kevin.granade · 2013-09-20T13:59:38.000Z

Nah it’s a bug, that happenes when you “hit”, but the target “dodges”, it’s something like:

if(hit) {
 if(monster->dodge) {
  print("you barely miss!");
 } else {
  damage(monster);
 }
 draw_blood_trail();
}

In reality it’s a LITTLE more complicated than that, but that’s the bug in a nutshell.