[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #11381: QFG4 unable to kill Ad Avis with a dagger

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#11381: QFG4 unable to kill Ad Avis with a dagger
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  Reporter:  emxd               |      Owner:  sluicebox
      Type:  defect             |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  normal             |  Component:  Engine: SCI
Resolution:  invalid            |   Keywords:
      Game:  Quest for Glory 4  |
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Changes (by sluicebox):

 * owner:  (none) => sluicebox
 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid

Comment:

 This is indeed a difference between ScummVM and the original but it's on
 purpose.

 You were never supposed to be able to kill Ad Avis with a dagger. That is
 one of many script bugs in this scene that I fixed. Throwing a rock would
 also incorrectly kill him. As you can imagine, defeating the final vampire
 in a quest for glory is supposed to require something a little more
 adventuresome than chucking a stone. A script bug resulted in all
 projectiles that hit Ad Avis after the joke being treated as staff spells
 cast by the magic user, and so throwing anything would accidentally
 trigger the magic user death. Avoozl reaches across the interdimensional
 plane in response to the burst of a powerful spell, not because some dude
 hurled a kitchen knife.

 Here are the bugs and fixes for this scene (spoilers):
 https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/pull/1691
 https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/a486438c103c42422ae69a15e288111e643af367

 I take it seriously that this means a game's behavior is different than
 what has been written about it but this is one of many intertwined bugs in
 this deeply and infamously broken scene that until now could often not be
 completed. The dagger/rock behavior was a bug as evidenced by the real
 solution, Sierra's hintbook, and the unforgivably high concentration of
 surrounding script bugs. Also it didn't make sense. Any "guide" that
 misses the real solution to a final puzzle can't be very good. Might I
 recommend the real hintbook? =)

 Short version: Try something more interesting!
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