Lightning whip sometimes remains active regardless of 0 fuel

Also occurs with the Electric shield.

(would not be surprised if all the melee electric have the issue, gloves included)


This does not occur with fire/acid/cold




But it seems to turn off after ~ a long time if this occurs.  Usually after a long afk, for example.

Now that I've gone back to using my whips again, I've been gathering some data on this issue:

James has Gadgeteering 4, which improves whip duration but should not be a sufficient efficiency improvement to produce this bug.

I've noticed that the whips bugging out is inconsistent, and can be more reliably (but by no means perfectly reliably) reproduced by recharging the whips when the ability-button is greyed out and the elemental effect is active.
The bug is visible when active whips (or presumably other equipment) are unequipped and no "a_item has been turned off." appears.

As an experiment, I abused my whips in the arena until both were bugged, recharged both with a Recharge grenade, and attempted to run a comparison:
Both Test and Control whips were precharged at the same time with a Recharge Grenade, and checked after 50 minutes by manually fueling with Batteries.
Control: 0 fuel used; when I attempted to refuel it the electrical ability turned off (no feedback in Combat log).
Test: Icon greyed out after ~35 confirmed hits, continued to be active until I stopped testing 155 hits later, but probably could have gone on longer.  16 fuel consumed when recharged; also turned off without Combat Log feedback when refueled manually.

Follow up testing:
Test whip was then reactivated and used for more fighting in the arena:   Icon greyed out after 21 hits and a little under 3 minutes but whip continued to be charged.
Test whip was recharged (consumed 16 batteries) and unequipped; no "Whip was turned off" message occurred.
Both whips were then activated and deactivated.
Whips were then activated and unequipped, which triggered the "Whip was turned off" messages for both in the Combat Log.

Test whip was reactivated and used in combat, whereupon it lasted for 6 hits and slightly over 2 minutes, before turning off with a note in the Combat Log.


Current source of the issue is inconclusive.  However, my hypothesis is that the fuel-check script has some condition related to fuel consumption where it 'forgets' if an item is active and doesn't deactivate the ability.   I have seen my aspergillum (cryosine) last longer than normal a time or two, but whips are much easier to glitch in this matter, and I suspect it has to do with the difference in fuel consumption rates.

I have an inefficient fix for this that I'll add next update. If it works I'll eventually revert it and try to make a better one.

Elemental weapon mods now turn off  a few seconds after activation.   Consistently.

Bumping this. My Oil Canisters are now sticking pretty consistently, for the past few days maybe half the time. I've never had them stick before that I recall. It might be coincidence, but I have some doubts.

The icon turns dark as if the item was out of fuel. Re-fuelling the item takes the the normal amount of fuel (5). It continues dealing fire damage as normal, and the duration is something like 2 hours.... though it does -eventually- turn off.

EDIT : Today it persisted post server update.