Game mode: Online official Type of issue: Bug Server type: PvE-Conflict Region: US
My attacks can damage my own followers on a PVE-C server, during PVP hours, if they’re following me.
Please provide a step-by-step process of how the bug can be reproduced. The more details you provide us with the easier it will be for us to find and fix the bug:
Connect to a PVE-C server during the PVP hours.
Order a follower to follow you.
Attack the follower.
Observe that the attack lowers your follower’s health and possibly applies effects like bleed or poison, depending on the weapon you’re using.
Code, I don’t know if this effect has increased over time or not, since I do not play officials or PvP/C servers, but wasn’t this the reason they implemented the short sword?
I vaguely remember notice of that in one of the devstreams.
I’m certainly not saying this is not a bug, but perhaps a temporary workaround?
The short swords were added when the Blood & Sand DLC came out. I’ve been playing on PVE-C long before that, using all sorts of weapons around my followers, and up until this week I have never caused any damage to them.
It’s not just about the effect being increased, because even if I caused them the smallest possible unit of damage, their health bar would pop up. It never did. Last night it did.
If I had to speculate, I would say that this might be related to the following bug report: