Well I didn't have earth shard, just was running away from a troll brute, left it behind, and it still killed me somehow. Now that's quite imbalanced ;).

It isn't exclusive to troll brutes, it has just happened to me with a female hill giant, also wielding a large great club. The message you see when she's attacking and she's not there is "Someone bashes at you with a large great club". I even managed to exit the level and then go back, but as soon as I went back to that level I was again receiving blows all the time as if the giant were near me. At the end she killed me.

Well, it's official then - ADoM 2 has ranged attacks ;). More seriously, maybe TB tried to implement huge creatures with huge weapons having range > 1? Would make sense, if it didn't misfire horribly ;).

I think the problem is in the large great club, since I've also seen alot of enemies do this, but always with that weapon.

In 0.2.3, monster could kill you by bashing doors: the damage dealt to the door was applied ot the PC. Maybe the fix introduced some borderline effects?

Just got my head smashed in by an Ogre standing on the other side of the wall...

I actually just encountered that problem with an orc wielding a morning star. Going to attach more screen shots.

That's really amazing... I will look into this as I remember adding yet another check to attack options that makes sure that melee can only happen when the beings are directly adjacent. I've never seen it happen to myself though...

It is rather frequent if you have to retreat, e.g. from troll brutes.

I've had exactly the same experience with Troll Brutes. One killed me from around a corner.

I just discovered another variant of this bug.

While standing in a hallway, I kept seeing messages about someone trying to disarm me. Now I know there is an invisible orc (I think) on that level because I killed him and he dropped a corpse before I was owned shortly after. The problem is that he followed me around and it was kind of hard for me to attack him because no matter where I hit, he was never there. So I went into said hallway. Oddly enough, my invisible opponent kept disarming me, but no matter to which side I stepped and tried to attack him from, I never hit him. He just wasn't in the hallway.

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