Timer appears to be getting faster

[nintara]

Godot Version

4.2.2

Question

this is my code, it’s used whenever a character in my turn based battle system uses a skill, which for now happens automatically without any user input. i’m aware that starting and stopping a preexisting timer is better practice, but that didn’t work at all for some reason as it looked as if the timer isn’t even there.

$BattleHud/TextBar/Label.text = "%s used %s" % [user.character_name,skill.skill_name]
await get_tree().create_timer(1,false).timeout

#do damage
damage = (skill.damage + user.strength + user.level*0.3 -
 (character.resilience + character.level*0.3))
character.hp -= damage
$BattleHud/TextBar/Label.text = "did %s damage" % damage

user.mp -= skill.mp_cost

if character.status == enums.status_effect.NONE:
	character.status = skill.status

update_hud()
await get_tree().create_timer(1,false).timeout

the first call goes as expected, but after that it gets faster and faster and in no time at all it’s as if the timer didn’t exist.

[gertkeno]

Is this part of a loop? Are you creating a timer every frame?

[nintara]

yes (well it was until i tried to do a workaround and accidentally ended up coding myself into an even bigger mess)

[gertkeno]

Then the code is waiting on a new timer each frame, thus only delaying it by one second rather than halting for one second. Could this code be moved to a connection? Like when a button is pressed or using the _input function override?

[nintara]

yep, i’ve already done so, sorry for wasting your time with something i ended up solving independently