Cover appears to be giving a penalty and a bonus, but isn't

[rickyhunt]

We noticed this in the last game, right after the latest update. The cover buttons in the modifiers window appear to give an attack a penalty to hit and a bonus to the target's AC, but it isn't. It makes it hard to confirm that all the effects were properly applied when trying to make sure an attack was correct.

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[Trenloe]

The results are correct, but are confusing. The [COVER -1] is just a way for the roll code to pass through the defensive modifier to the result code. This has been rewritten in Release 18, to be LCOVER, COVER and GCOVER instead of a numerical indicator.

[Zacchaeus]

So in the image below Bob here has had a whack at the ruffian three times and in the first instance I clicked Lesser Cover, the second time Standard Cover and the final thwack had the Greater Cover button pushed - all just before the thwack was made.

As you can see the correct result is being given each time with +1, +2 or +4 DEF EFFECTS. So by my reconing this is working correctly. I suspect that the player in your game had some other effects on them or the target did which is causing the COVER -2 effect to apply.

Edit: well Trenloe got in ahead of me - and he'll have a better answer than I will :)

[Weissrolf]

Same problem here and asked about it last month without an answer. This confused my players multiple times even after months of playing. Flat-footed already is listed as "FF", so if cover is changed in v18 then my group should be less confused about this.