Quick question, damage morale.

[wcho035]

Hi, I am looking for a way to damage or lower an enemy's morale. Costuse only works on soldier that fired the weapon, not the target. Is there away?

[Meridian]

ToMorale

https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Ruleset_Reference_Nightly_(OpenXcom)#Item_Damage_Types

[wcho035]

Thank you for the answer for the inventory question. For morale, I am experiencing no effect when implementing the code.

Here is the weapon.

  - type: STR_MORALE_GRENADE
    size: 0.2
    costBuy: 950000
    costSell: 50000
    weight: 9
    bigSprite: 1851
    floorSprite: 680
    handSprite: 1145
    power: 5
    damageType: 3
    battleType: 4
    blastRadius: 10
    hitAnimation: 9
    damageAlter:
      ToMorale: 100.0

[ohartenstein23]

Your grenade isn't penetrating armor. Either increase power and use the rest of damageAlter to get the effect you want or use ArmorEffectiveness less than 1 to make it 'pierce' armor in the damageAlter.

[wcho035]

Thank you guys, after upping the damage, it worked. Lastly can ArmorEffectiveness have negative values?

[Meridian]

Why would you need armor to be less than 0% effective?
And what would it even mean?

[wcho035]

With testing, I found with zero value for armoureffectiveness and low power damage, some of the stats change has no effect with script hooks. I am just wondering what -1 would do, out of curiosity. If there is always room to experiment, as I am not 100% sure of this parameter. Would this transfer to health damage completely. I have completed my testing with this feature. Thanks again for the help Meridian.

[Meridian]

Best case it will do nothing, worst case it will crash.

[wcho035]

Understood, thank you.