Jeff_Ray...
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Version: 5.0.1.5973 PC

Recreation:
1) Create a script that modifies the player's position through the X_ and Y_ variable so that he is on the same tile as a monster
2) Test. The player will end up on top of the monster, either of them unharmed, until the player steps off the tile, where he is killed unless the move he makes kills the monster.

What should happen: Teleporting the player onto a monster's location should either kill it or kill the player.

I'm just checking to see if this is intended or not. I discovered this while writing a 'jumping off a ledge' script that plops the player at the bottom of a "ledge", and found out that I could stand on top of a monster. This could actually work really well as a little gimmick, but it feels like it shouldn't happen at all. The script is really simple:

Label LOOOP
  Wait for event Player teeters on pit edge
  If ... 
        Wait for entity Player 17,4,21,4
     Set var "_Y" + 4
  If End 
  Wait 0
  Go to LOOOP

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mrimer
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Jeff_Ray... wrote:
What should happen: Teleporting the player onto a monster's location should either kill it or kill the player.

I'm pretty sure the current behavior is intended, but the dev team (probably TFMurphy) can correct me if I'm wrong.

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I don't believe it would ever be intended (and, in a different thread, Mike expressed that this is not intended behavior) and this was fixed as part of changes to this http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=39016

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I am reopening this thread because I've realized this has not actually been addressed in the changes for 5.0.2. I think the player (or any other character) should be either forbidden from teleporting onto another entity or telefrag (kill) the monster on the target.

Consider teleporting onto another entity an unsafe operation which can be changed in newer updates until the official ruling is posted.

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Fixed by: http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=38486

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Haven't tested this, bumping it in hopes someone who understands MyScript better than me has the time.

Basically I haven't confirmed that changing X and Y for the player has the same effects as teleporting, as noted in the linked topic.

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Okay, now I can confirm that changing X and Y directly has the same restrictions as teleportation in 5.1.0.6478.

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