Megumin, we need to talk...

laughing @ all the people here not realizing that the spell is terribly underpowered because that's exactly how it is in the show

Even maxed on a decent mage, theres very low damage potential. Lord Dredmor's minions simply shrug it off and you have to deal with the cooldown and penalties. Did a complete playthrough, not feeling the total annihilation vibe from it. Though, maxing it did put me at a complete disadvantage most of the game, destroying the dungeon walls to trap Dredmor helped me win. So theres that.

this might be a refrence to something

@Ze ᴹᵘˢᵗᵃᶜʰᴱ Ride I found the table I used to plan out the mod; it does scale. Still, it's not meant to be a oneshotter.

@Ze ᴹᵘˢᵗᵃᶜʰᴱ Ride I don't have the mod files any more (they're on an old dead computer) but I don't think it even scales with magic power. It's designed as a secondary skill for a non-mage build.

I think. It's been a long time. <.<

I only wish the explosion could do more damage.

I made a whole build around this baby- Mathemagic for teleporting, Blood magic for popping a phylactry after running away, Fire magic for the Fireball side-girls. All that, and at the end... Ehhh... The spell just doesn't do enough damage. I'll level it to max, get 50+ spell power... and they're still standing! Unforgivable!

@ButtersTheNinja Megumin is indeed best girl.

megumin is best girl

i see what you did here

Ah sorry, it was lacking in detail.

Every time I have ever cast the spell, the game has totally locked up instantly - the sound effect plays while the screen is completely frozen - no animations continue, nothing. It just looks like a screenshot. After the sound effect ends, it is just the current background music and that frozen screen. Neither version of Windows declares the program as Not Responding, and it never actually crashes to desktop, but it is absolutely frozen and accepts no further input.

I did manage to once "cast" the spell with no target, nothing happened but the sound effect played, but the game could still be played normally afterwards. Every other time (maybe ten times now), as soon as the right mouse button is clicked, the game freezes and needs to be force-closed.

Most of this is was found at level 1. I did experiment once to level it to 2 to see if it was just a bug with level 1, but that made it lock up instantly just the same.

@Miraglyth Actually, could you just clarify a few things?

How many times can you cast the spell before this happens, roughly? Is it on first cast, second, tenth, hundredth etc

When you say everything "freezes" does the program stop responding entirely (window goes white, Task Manager says it's not responding etc) or does the gamne process keep running and accept no inputs?

What level are you when this happens? Have you cast the spell at every level, or only just cast it for the first time at level four, for example?

Anything else unusual?

For what it's worth this has been tested on three machines so far and had no problems - so I'm trying to get as much data as possible. I can't replicate it here without it!

@Miraglyth thanks for the report. IK know it can cause a crash to desktop if you destroy tiles outside of the map bounds, but that doesn't sound like your problem.

Most things in my mod are fairly standard, but the image sizes are a bit off from what they should be. I'll tweak them and see if it helps.

It's an amusing concept, but... I'm finding that it makes the game crash when it's used. An explosion sound effect plays and then everything just freezes until the .exe process is killed.

For troubleshooting's sake I've tried disabling all other mods and using a fresh character to avoid any other mod conflicts, and also on two different machines (one XP, the other Windows 10). Both get the same problem.