Fortify Melee not working in The Quest Classic?

[Huromu]

From several testing I made it seemed that fortify melee potions have no affect in Classic. I used detect mind to check my damage and even with +20%, +50%,+140% total fortify melee by drinking potions, I still deal pretty much the same damage as without them. I tried to create a new save and drunk a small and a strong fortify melee potions and the result was the same, hardly any melee damage bonus. I also tested on another device and it still did pretty much nothing.
I have all the available expansions activated on both testing devices (except Elemental Asteroid), perhaps it had something to do with specific expansions? Since expansions have their unique potions and sometimes can cause a potion from another expansion unavailable to brew, maybe some expansions can mess up the potions from the base game?

[Huromu]

I tested again on a newly installed The Quest Gold, and the potions still seemed useless.

[Huromu]

Perhaps I had misunderstood the effect of fortify melee? It increases your melee damage by a percentage, is it not?

[Elendil / Redshift]

I've tried looking into what it does and from what I can tell, yes, it doesn't do anything. (It's supposed to add a concrete value, not a percentage.) It gets added to the player's active effects but there is nothing which checks it.

I haven't changed anything in that part of the code (it was all Stewe's) so this is how it has been since release, if that matters.

[Huromu]

Thanks a lot for the info!
There is another question I would like to ask about. Does the newer The Quest (the not so classic one) have some issues in fortify melee too? I have noticed some slight increase in damage in the stat menu but the amount is too small and definitely doesn’t match the percentage amount of my fortify melee effect (I drunk a small and a strong fortify melee potions but my damage only goes up from 6~10 to 7~13).

[Elendil / Redshift]

The code is (in my opinion) unnecessarily super complicated so I can't really tell what it does. But it does the same thing in both The Quest and The Quest Classic since that was first released. The first few years any observations went to Stewe (the original creator of that part) and if he didn't change stuff, I can only guess it was intended.