Epidemius' tally sometimes applies his unique plague effects to own army, reason unknown

[floskan]

"So I have been playing with Epedemius. It's been a fun, successful campaign. However, upon reaching 20 plagues and getting my plague tally to epidemic, I have noticed that when I fight an enemy and my own army is afflicted with a plague, I get the Greater Plague Affected debuff as well (rather than just the enemy), which damages my troops when they are in melee. This seems very unintended. My Exalted Plaguebearers ended up taking severe damage melee fighting some lesser marauders because of the Greater Plague Afflicted debuff dealing 20-40damage per second while they were in Melee."

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/bugs/787-epidemius-tally-applies-greater-plague-afflicted-to-own-army?page=1

[floskan]

Is making his faction immune to these kinds of plagues scripted?

[Drazhir2]

untick half of these boxes? I don't have an Epidemius campaign running, would take time to setup to test.

[floskan]

I just assumed it wouldn't be that easy but yeah that can work lol

[floskan]

The plague bundle still applies outside of battle though, -15% replenishment and -8 leadership i think it was

[Drazhir2]

oh I didn't see there was a second screenshot in the bug report, I only read the text which involves battles.

screenshot for the campaign part:

[floskan]

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-warhammer/bugs/1147-epidemius-tally-bugged-causes-damage-to-own-troops?page=1

" After playing around with Epidemius for a bit I finally hit a tally of 20+ (Epidemical) which adds the debuff Greater Plague Afflicted to all enemies that have a plague. It causes 20-40 damge per second while they are in melee. The issue is that if you have a plague, the debuff gets applied to your own troops, as well. My Exalted Plaguebearers with stats around 60 and 30% physical resistance then died fighting a few lowly marauders from a garrison which left me a sad derp.

He deals damage to his own army when they are plagued and he has tier 2 or 3 of his faction ability.

Grandfather has forsaken us."

[mfvreeland]

I still can't reproduce the issue. There must be a particular set of circumstances that causes it. In my testing, the extra plague effects from Epidemius are properly restricted to non-Nurgle factions. I need a save to debug further.

[mfvreeland]

Need reliable repo steps for this in order to fix.