Mmm, when there's a patch available, the best thing to do would be rename or compress the folder, or just this file, and put the dgdata.zip.old back to dgdata.zip, and let the game update that itself, just to be sure.

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Good catch Cody, I don't play as TB myself, however I know this is a fairly large issue. Glad to see you have the cause of it figured out as well. Hopefully GPG get's a hold of this and we can be rid of this damn glitch once and for all!

Very interesting stuff.  Would love to know if TB was intended not to move and attack, if not great fix.

It exists? Well why did they never finish TB, mmm. He already fires nearly twice as slow as frost, I don't know why you can't chase with him. That anim seems to bug a bit with me, the animation gets interrupted sometimes.

Thanks though, updated original post with the fire animation.

Good catch.  I'm going to make sure some questions based on this are asked in the August 2009 - The Monthly Demigod Community Question Thread.  I'll look for confirmation that he's supposed to be able to move and attack (referencing Kryo's post with it being a bug) and provide the applicable code required to fix it if Brad agrees its a bug. 

I am 90% sure he was not meant to run and shoot simply cause fire form get's very powerful when combined with the Aura. The animation was already there or a animation that worked was already there (It doesn't even need a walkcycle so it would be easy to animate)

Pacov use http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp to see the differences Cody900 made and the tiny differences I made.

mrappard, I tested the fix that you linked, and it didn't work. When chasing, TB would repeatedly begin the attack animation but wouldn't follow through.

Cody's, on the other hand, worked smoothly.

That's what I was getting with the fire animation as well Scufo, maybe it is bugged or something. None of the speeds were altered though, strange. You can try changing the AttackRangedMoved Transitions to:

ANIM_DONE = { Duration = 0.1, TargetStateStationary = 'Idle', TargetStateMoving = 'Run', },
ANIM_INTERRUPT =  { Duration = 0.1, TargetStateStationary = 'Idle', TargetStateMoving = 'Run', },
ANIM_STOP_MOVING = { Duration = 0.1, TargetState = 'AttackRanged', CopyClocks = true, },

And his AttackRanged transitions to:

ANIM_INTERRUPT =  { Duration = 0.1, TargetStateStationary = 'Idle', TargetStateMoving = 'Run', },
ANIM_START_MOVING = { Duration = 0.1,TargetState = 'AttackRangedMove', CopyClocks = true, },

Seems to be less buggy. But yeah, it's not that imbalanced, because of the much longer cast time, you really need +speed to properly take advantage of it with fire.

GKRIT:

I think the design rational was the same as the Rook design rational.

The rook is very slow but if you run away from him he can't auto attack you (Cause your faster.) He makes up for it with high auto attack damage and a passive that allows him to hit enemies away from him (His Shoulder abilites)

The TB when he switched forms his attack power goes up 110 points and 15% attack speed if he has Flame Aura maxed. He also get 15% giving him the abilitiy to chase down nearly anyone. Again I'm not sure if it was the right choice. It's just when I played like this in single player he kicked ass quite a bit more then usual. If he couldn't chase you'd have to use fireball which is still a good abilities to kill fleeing enemies.

THE REST OF YOu: Help me me out of the Frogboy mod.

Honestly, I'm amazed that some people are still trying to rationalize against the obvious.

It is a bug, and has even been officially classified as such. Even if it were not, it'd then be a design bug (aka "brain fart"). Come on guys, "Hey, let's make it so that when TB is in fire form and clicks on a moving target he'll just stand there doing nothing, with no feedback to the player - that should balance him nicely !"

Hello ??

At line 180 in the file MageFire_Character.lua this code was added. And our code is identical now as I stole it from him.

 },

        },

        AttackRangedMove = {

             SoundLoop = 'Forge/DEMIGODS/Torch_Bearer/snd_dg_torch_idle_fire_lp',

             BaseAttackLength = 1.5,

             Compositions = {

                 {

                    Animation = '/characters/Mage/animations/Mage_AttackFire_anim.gr2',

                    Loop = false,

                    EventOnCompletion = true,

                    Events = {

                        { name = 'torch_mode2_attack', time = 0.48, }, #sound

                        { name = 'FireAttack', time = 0.5, },

                        { name = 'attack_effect_01', time = 0.4, },

                        { name = 'attack_effect_02', time = 0.6, },

                    },

                },

            },

            Transitions = {

                ANIM_DONE = { TargetState = 'Idle',},

                ANIM_INTERRUPT =  { Duration = 0.2, TargetStateStationary = 'Idle', TargetStateMoving = 'Run', },

                ANIM_STOP_MOVING = { Duration = 0.2, TargetState = 'AttackRanged', CopyClocks = true, },