[Fixed] Units with heal skill can not heal themselves when controlled by human

[tomreyn]

In 3.4.0, the egyptian priest can not heal itself when it is controlled by a human player: the error message is something along the lines of "invalid order".
However, egyptian priests controlled by a Mega CPU keep healing themselves all the time. They also do it vice versa, but also by themselves.

While this could be claimed to be a feature, I'm not sure it is entirely intended...

[ultifd]

Screenshot? Probably a bug, if it's true...

[ElimiNator]

Yup it is true. I have noticed that any healing unit can heal itself when the AI uses it, but not humans.

[titi]

Thats because the ai gives the command to the ground!
Try to give the heal command to the ground ( between his feet when zooming in ) and you will see he can heal itself too. But maybe we should allow self healing in general.

[ElimiNator]

OK, yes maybe if he is in the heal skill.

[tomreyn]

Thats because the ai gives the command to the ground!
Try to give the heal command to the ground ( between his feet when zooming in ) and you will see he can heal itself too. But maybe we should allow self healing in general.

Oh, that's indeed good to know. This is not intuitive and so I agree that 'real' self-healing (i.e. target of healing is the unit model itself) should be possible. Even when you know how it works currently (I bet hardly anyone knew), it's difficult to hit the right spot, much more so in the heat of a battle.

[softcoder]

This is now fixed in mg and will be in the release

[teersen]

Well, maybe it will be good to give him an opportunity to heal allies?) I checked it right now, he can't do this.

[John.d.h]

Well, maybe it will be good to give him an opportunity to heal allies?) I checked it right now, he can't do this.

Are the allies Egyptian?  Units can only heal other units that are specified in their own XML file, which only includes their own faction.  After the merger, this should be fixed by GAE's tag system.

[teersen]

Sorry, my fault, with Egyptian it works.

[John.d.h]

It's a little counter-intuitive, but it should get sorted out in due time.

(I normally play the same faction as one of my allies, so we can heal and repair each other. )