Given armor via puff not working when already armored.

[Amuscaria]

I'm trying to fix a bug in HF's Soultaker alt-fire. It sends out BFG sprays that for each hit, is supposed to give 1 armor by the puff that is spawned on hit. This works fine when the player has no armor, but doesn't if I already have some. I tried playing with the MaxSaveAmount and SavePercentage, but to no avail. What am I missing?

Here's the code:

Armor Item:

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ACTOR SpiritArmor : BasicArmorBonus //Used for Soultaker only
{
   Armor.SaveAmount 1
   Armor.SavePercent 50
   Armor.MaxSaveAmount 200
   Inventory.Icon ARMRB0
   States
   {
   Spawn:
      ARMR A 1 
      Loop
   }
}

The puff:

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Actor SoulburnFX1 : SoultakerPuff1
{
   RENDERSTYLE ADD
   ALPHA 1.0
   DamageType wepsoul
   Translation "80:111=168:191"   
   -FORCEXYBILLBOARD
   States
   {
   Spawn:      
	  WRAI E 4 bright A_GiveToTarget("SpiritArmor",1)
      WRAI FGHIJ 3 bright A_Fadeout(0.1)
	  stop
   Crash:
      SEFX DEF 3 bright
      stop
      }
}

It seems I can't force the player to pick up the armor bonus even when +AlwaysPickup and +AutoActivate is inherited from the parent.

[Blue Shadow]

This works fine when the player has no armor, but doesn't if I already have some.

This is odd. The puff actor should fail to give you the armor bonus, because it's making the call in the first state of its Spawn state sequence. As you may know, when an actor first spawns, it doesn't call its function in first state unless the [wiki=Actor_states#NoDelay]NoDelay[/wiki] keyword is set on that state.

[Amuscaria]

Oh wow. Wouldn't have saw the problem if you hadn't mentioned that. The actual reason was because the powered-up buff gave the armor in the XDeath state instead of the Spawn state, like the normal one. And I tested that powered-up puff when I had no armor and came to the wrong conclusion. Thanks.