(bug) Bullet.Expand has wrong value

[Shimrod]

Looks like the Bullet.Expand constant needs to be 8 rather than 16.

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[Bullet.Disable]=16
[Bullet.Expand]=16
Laser=Phased Shockwave Generator, Flags=8 (ARRAY ( ))

Edit: Looks like I posted this in the wrong forum, feel free to move!

[Alan Phipps]

I will move this when I know what game, situation, mod, fault or thread this refers to. Any background info would be handy.

[Shimrod]

I'd originally posted in the German scripts and modding forum by mistake. It was already moved into this forum.

Bullet.Expand is one of the new script editor constants introduced in Albion Prelude. It currently evaluates to 0x10 instead of 0x8, which I believe is the intended value given that:
a. Bullet.Disable already has the value 0x10
b. There is no other constant that evaluates to 0x8
c. PSG laser flags are 0x8, and of those 2 0x10 duplicates the term 'Expand' sounds appropriate to the PSG effect.

<Moving to TC/AP S&M. Alan Phipps>

[CBJ]

Well spotted. This will be fixed in the next patch.

[expnobody]

what kind of effect will cause by this mistake?

[Shimrod]

None of the stock scripts appear to use this constant (findstr over unpacked addon\scripts pck files), so I suspect its benign. I encountered it in the process of updating Smart to detect PSG effect lasers, and there's a simple workaround of using the literal 8 instead of the constant.

[Gazz]

AP has some new commands that aren't used anywhere but can be used by scripters to do things they simply couldn't do before.
That's because the developers are such jolly good fellows.

Scripting (SQUASH) mines to armed/unarmed is another such example.

[Sir Warwick]

Hmmm - just need the AI to start agressively laying minefields which in turn opens the oppotunity for someone to script recon drones as minefield difuse bots

Or perhpas use this to add som degree of freind/foe recognition to them.