OnKillCharacter applies status effects to wrong character

[Numidyum]

Disclaimers

• I have searched the issue tracker to check if the issue has already been reported.
• My issue happened while using mods.

What happened?

OnKillCharacter applies status effects to wrong character.
For example:

  <AbilityGroupEffect abilityeffecttype="OnKillCharacter">
    <Abilities>
        <CharacterAbilityApplyStatusEffects>
          <StatusEffects>
            <StatusEffect type="OnAbility" Target="Character" multiplyafflictionsbymaxvitality="true">
              <Affliction identifier="strengthen" amount="10"/>
            </StatusEffect>
          </StatusEffects>
        </CharacterAbilityApplyStatusEffects>
      </Abilities>
    </AbilityGroupEffect>

Code above applies vigor to character that dies but if you remove Target="Character" part vigor applies to character that kills.

Reproduction steps

Make any talent with that gives any affliction. Here is an example without Target="Character"

<Talent identifier="OnKillVigorTalent">
    <icon texture="Content/UI/TalentsIcons3.png" sheetindex="4,0" sheetelementsize="128,128" color="163,73,764,255" origin="0,0"/>
   <AbilityGroupEffect abilityeffecttype="OnKillCharacter">
    <Abilities>
        <CharacterAbilityApplyStatusEffects>
          <StatusEffects>
            <StatusEffect type="OnAbility" multiplyafflictionsbymaxvitality="true">
              <Affliction identifier="strengthen" amount="10"/>
            </StatusEffect>
          </StatusEffects>
        </CharacterAbilityApplyStatusEffects>
      </Abilities>
    </AbilityGroupEffect>
  </Talent>

Bug prevalence

Just once

Single player or multiplayer?

Happens in both single player and multiplayer

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No response

Version

v1.10.7.2 (Autumn Update 2025 Hotfix 4)

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No response

Which operating system did you encounter this bug on?

Windows

Relevant error messages and crash reports

No error messages

[Regalis11]

Thank you for the report!

In my opinion this doesn't seem like a bug. Target="Character" in this context refers to the killed character and Target="This" (the default when the target is not specified) refers to the character who has the talent, which seems logical to me. What would the alternative behavior be?

[Numidyum]

Oh i was following vanilla examples while making it and got me confused, now you mentioned this it makes sense. Thanks a lot