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Cybersaint2k

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Dec 19, 2009, 10:30:42 PM12/19/09
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A level 11 Spriggan Enchanter on D:13, ran into a group of slimes and
a centaur captain, so was retreating nicely with the lead slime
confused and repel missiles empowered.

Three spaces away, a yak appears out of thin air, between me and the
down stairs in a narrow area. I go around him, try and confuse him
once, and he gets a critical hit on me and I'm dead.

Thin air. That hurt. Deep inside.

Stefan O'Rear

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Dec 19, 2009, 11:02:51 PM12/19/09
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It always amuses me when people talk about critical hits in Crawl. They
don't exist, but somehow the game gives people an illusion they do.

Cybersaint2k

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Dec 19, 2009, 11:18:42 PM12/19/09
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On Dec 19, 11:02 pm, Stefan O'Rear <stefa...@cox.net> wrote:

It *felt* critical. It was an "ow that really hurt!" message.

sreservoir

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Dec 19, 2009, 11:19:12 PM12/19/09
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that's just a generic high-damage attack

--

"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"

Robert

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Dec 20, 2009, 1:05:45 PM12/20/09
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On Dec 19, 10:18 pm, Cybersaint2k <rfbar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It *felt* critical. It was an "ow that really hurt!" message.

I haven't code-dived Crawl, but I think Ow that really hurt! is the
warning message you get when a single attack takes more than half your
max hit points.

Martin Read

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Dec 20, 2009, 5:50:34 PM12/20/09
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Robert <r.sh...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not sure whether it's "half your max hit points" or "significant
fraction and greater than the remainder", but yes. (I can't be arsed
looking it up right now :)
--
\_\/_/ turbulence is certainty turbulence is friction between you and me
\ / every time we try to impose order we create chaos
\/ -- Killing Joke, "Mathematics of Chaos"

sreservoir

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Dec 20, 2009, 6:44:13 PM12/20/09
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On 12/20/2009 5:50 PM, Martin Read wrote:
> Robert<r.sh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 19, 10:18=A0pm, Cybersaint2k<rfbar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It *felt* critical. It was an "ow that really hurt!" message.
>>
>> I haven't code-dived Crawl, but I think Ow that really hurt! is the
>> warning message you get when a single attack takes more than half your
>> max hit points.
>
> I'm not sure whether it's "half your max hit points" or "significant
> fraction and greater than the remainder", but yes. (I can't be arsed
> looking it up right now :)

it checks that you.hp_max <= dam * 2. (also dam > 0, which is silly).

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