fix #H6624 - missile miss message redundancy

Excess verbosity for multi-shot throwing/shooting by monsters.
 The Green-elf shoots 2 elven arrows.
 You are almost hit by the 1st elven arrow.  The 1st elven arrow misses.
 You are almost hit by the 2nd elven arrow.  The 2nd elven arrow misses.
Just give one or the other of the miss messages.  If it reaches the
hero's location, give the first.  If it lands somewhere else, give the
second.  (It might be possible to get both if hero is displaced and
the monster thinks he/she is behind his/her actual location.  I'm not
sure.)

Also, only say "you are almost hit" if it is true:  the dieroll nearly
got past your armor.  Otherwise, say "The Nth arrow misses you."

diff --git a/doc/fixes36.1 b/doc/fixes36.1
index 69724485b5f73350010ab0a310f4a7fb9559527f..c27a3b79549653b78f56fcd2ad93bd041f8920c2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/fixes36.1
+++ b/doc/fixes36.1
@@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ hero poly'd into paper or straw golem reverts to human if burned up even when
        Unchanging without any explanation given
 hero polymorphed into form which can't wear armor via 'W' (eliciting "don't
        even bother") could wear it via 'P'
+make multi-shot missiles fired by monsters be less verbose when they miss
 
 
 Fixes to Post-3.6.0 Problems that Were Exposed Via git Repository

diff --git a/src/mthrowu.c b/src/mthrowu.c
index 3d2830b96aaea9fd8adf6ed9f24ae3d7000c1b90..6806feef42223fd4c1798f1507161f730a74c9b2 100644 (file)
--- a/src/mthrowu.c
+++ b/src/mthrowu.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* NetHack 3.6 mthrowu.c       $NHDT-Date: 1446887531 2015/11/07 09:12:11 $  $NHDT-Branch: master $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.63 $ */
+/* NetHack 3.6 mthrowu.c       $NHDT-Date: 1514152830 2017/12/24 22:00:30 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-3.6.0 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.73 $ */
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
 
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ STATIC_OVL NEARDATA const char *breathwep[] = {
 };
 
 extern boolean notonhead; /* for long worms */
+STATIC_VAR int mesg_given; /* for m_throw()/thitu() 'miss' message */
 
 /* hero is hit by something other than a monster */
 int
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ const char *name; /* if null, then format `*objp' */
     struct obj *obj = objp ? *objp : 0;
     const char *onm, *knm;
     boolean is_acid;
-    int kprefix = KILLED_BY_AN;
+    int kprefix = KILLED_BY_AN, dieroll;
     char onmbuf[BUFSZ], knmbuf[BUFSZ];
 
     if (!name) {
@@ -59,10 +60,15 @@ const char *name; /* if null, then format `*objp' */
             : an(name);
     is_acid = (obj && obj->otyp == ACID_VENOM);
 
-    if (u.uac + tlev <= rnd(20)) {
-        if (Blind || !flags.verbose)
+    if (u.uac + tlev <= (dieroll = rnd(20))) {
+        ++mesg_given;
+        if (Blind || !flags.verbose) {
             pline("It misses.");
-        else
+        } else if (u.uac + tlev <= dieroll - 2) {
+            if (onm != onmbuf)
+                Strcpy(onmbuf, onm); /* [modifiable buffer for upstart()] */
+            pline("%s %s you.", upstart(onmbuf), vtense(onmbuf, "miss"));
+        } else
             You("are almost hit by %s.", onm);
         return 0;
     } else {
@@ -518,6 +524,7 @@ struct obj *obj;         /* missile (or stack providing it) */
         (void) drop_throw(singleobj, 0, bhitpos.x, bhitpos.y);
         return;
     }
+    mesg_given = 0; /* a 'missile misses' message has not yet been shown */
 
     /* Note: drop_throw may destroy singleobj.  Since obj must be destroyed
      * early to avoid the dagger bug, anyone who modifies this code should
@@ -646,8 +653,10 @@ struct obj *obj;         /* missile (or stack providing it) */
         if (!range /* reached end of path */
             || MT_FLIGHTCHECK(FALSE)) {
             if (singleobj) { /* hits_bars might have destroyed it */
-                if (m_shot.n > 1 && (cansee(bhitpos.x, bhitpos.y)
-                                     || (archer && canseemon(archer))))
+                if (m_shot.n > 1
+                    && (!mesg_given || bhitpos.x != u.ux || bhitpos.y != u.uy)
+                    && (cansee(bhitpos.x, bhitpos.y)
+                        || (archer && canseemon(archer))))
                     pline("%s misses.", The(mshot_xname(singleobj)));
                 (void) drop_throw(singleobj, 0, bhitpos.x, bhitpos.y);
             }
@@ -659,6 +668,7 @@ struct obj *obj;         /* missile (or stack providing it) */
     tmp_at(bhitpos.x, bhitpos.y);
     delay_output();
     tmp_at(DISP_END, 0);
+    mesg_given = 0; /* reset */
 
     if (blindinc) {
         u.ucreamed += blindinc;