Free arm block and leg blocks without martial arts and skills

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1

Started a new game, with tiger style (no blocks) and 0 melee and unarmed skill, but i’m still doing arm and leg blocks when fighting zombies

2

Likely a check not happening. Thanks for reporting.

3

I’ve found this with unarmed combat in general, including characters that are using no unarmed style at all, like those who haven’t even learned Brawling yet.

4

Very rusty programming, but i might have found the bug? game checks if unarmed skill is higher than the integer ma.arm_block or ma.leg_block, but the value of arm_block and leg_block is always -1. This is from src/martialarts.cpp

martialart::martialart()
{
leg_block = -1;
arm_block = -1;
}

…

ma.leg_block = jo.get_int(“leg_block”, -1);
ma.arm_block = jo.get_int(“arm_block”, -1);

…

if( unarmed_skill >= ma.arm_block ) {
return true;

5

OK did a little more testing, if character has NO martial arts with with blocking, character will always know arm and leg block, but if character has style with arm block, or arm+leg block, character will only use those blocks when unarmed skill meets the requirement.

I believe it’s because in martialarts.json styles without block (or no style) doesn’t give a value to arm_block and leg_block therefore they default to the -1 which will always make the check fuction return true

(or is -1 a special number or something?)

anyways the suggested fix is to assign a large arm_block and leg_block value to all the martial arts styles (and no style) in martialarts.json , like 100 or so

OK submitted a pull request on git

6

Was supposed to be a special number, but probably wasn’t working. Thanks for reporting & PRing, though I’d ask that you check your PR, as it had a few formatting issues when I last looked at it.