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When "Enemies' Bullets Hurt Other Enemies" is set, Tigers can shoot themselves to death. This can be easily tested by setting the given Global setting, then enclosing a Tiger in a 5x1 space with default Tiger params and waiting. This does not seem to happen to swimming Sharks in similar circumstances.

Change dates back to 2.80.

Updating status to: Confirmed
Updating severity to: 1 - Low

                                ; Dumb move
   push ax
   call random_num
   mov bl,al
   pop ax
   and bl,3                     ; dl=dir
   jmp @@tg_move_dir

Somehow became:

            m_dir = rand() & 7;

Classic tigers have a 100% chance of moving during a dumb move, but 50% of the time, port tigers will try to move in directions 4-7. move() and shoot() are not designed to handle these "directions" and they try to respectively move and shoot to the same position the tiger is currently occupying. The move() is effectively a no-op but the shoot() causes this bug. Port tigers are visibly lethargic compared to 2.70 with low intelligence values.

Also, tigers don't make the dragon fire sound when they shoot fire like they're supposed to (also a 2.80 """""feature""""").

Updating status to: Cannot Reproduce

Candidate fix here, will make up my mind later about this being another per-board compatibility setting for 2.94.

Updating status to: Proposed Fix

Tracker decided to pick a different status than the one I selected, cool.

Updating status to: Fixed
Issue fixed in: 2.93d

Fixed in GIT a801c491. This is awaiting some 2.94-specific additions, but this bug is fixed for DOS-era games. I left it in place for 2.80+ games since the movement effect is quite noticeable (and some things may rely on the weird self-destruction bug, I guess...), but this can also be revised later.

Moving to: Archived MegaZeux Bugs