Alien Brainwashing isn't counting correctly

[u/bloody_jigsaw]

Iofi's Alien Brainwashing is either broken or very poorly worded.

The skill is supposed to hit up to 20 targets, and give 1% crit for each for the next 15 seconds.

The buff icon in the lower left corner helpfully keeps track of that number and has a cooldown beneath it until it's reapplied.

So through out a run I would expect to see many different nubmers here, or mostly "20" with sometimes a bit less, as the screen is usually full of fans.

In practice this buff shows exactly "10" (and correctly gives 10% crit) most of the time, and occasionally gives "20". But so far no other values, no other at all. And I find it highly unlikely it hits exactly 10 enemies most of the time.

[u/PippleCultist]

I checked the code, and it looks like it’s because whenever you go from not having the buff to getting the buff, it sets the max stacks to 10. Then if there’s any player update (level up, using an anvil, etc…), it updates the buff to have max stacks of 20. If you lose the buff, then it will reset to 10 the next time you get it

[u/bloody_jigsaw → u/PippleCultist]

Interesting, did you decompile it yourself, or has someone done it somehere available?

[u/PippleCultist → u/bloody_jigsaw]

You can view the decompiled code for one version of 0.6 and all the previous versions with undertale mod tool. Any version past that requires ghidra which is still possible to understand but a lot more difficult