Report 74

Report #74
Skillset: Knighthood Skill: Amputation
 Org: Paladins Status: Completed Oct 2008
Furies' Decision:
Amputation will prevent stand and springup.
Problem: Amputation does not prone or prevent springup. Critical woundstate,
swing required, two handed only. Tendon, knockdown, etc all prone, but missing a
leg doesn't? Similarly, springing up onto one leg is a little ridiculous.
[A: 0 R: 0] Solution #1: Make LEG amputation prone and prevent springup.
Player Comments:
---[Izekeal on 10/23 @ 05:55 writes]:
...ever actually tried to get up off the ground using the balance on only one
leg? It's completely possible.
---[Ceren on 10/23 @ 08:10 writes]:
I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that springup works with broken
legs, mangled legs, amputated legs, hemiplegy, and basically anything that
counts as a broken leg. The only exception is legtendons, which have a special
provision coded for them and lead me to believe that springup's behaviour with
other leg afflictions is unintended/a bug
---[Desitrus on 10/23 @ 14:08 writes]:
Have you ever tried it while you are missing one leg and bleeding heavily from
the fresh wound? I sincerely doubt it is "completely possible".
---[Ceren on 10/23 @ 16:34 writes]:
Yeah... if you can't do it with a severed tendon, how is it you can do it with
your entire leg chopped off?
---[Xenthos on 10/25 @ 00:59 writes]:
Amputate is already specifically coded to not knock someone down if they lose
just one leg, but instead to give a high chance of falling if they try to walk
out of the room. (I believe they move out and fall down on the other side).
Making it so that Springup cannot be used to get out of it is good, but the
intended "Game Balance" for this was to make a Warrior use other methods at
their disposal to get the person prone after / during an amputation. Tendon is,
for example, a heavy affliction that can be delivered on the other leg (for
2hers). It makes sense from an RP standpoint, but from a balance one it's going
to be a pretty big change. The original reasoning should at least be considered
and addressed for that part of this idea.
---[Desitrus on 10/26 @ 02:19 writes]:
I believe you're completely wrong on that one, unless you can cite something. If
you try to move while amputated it says "you need both legs to do that." In
fact, you can't even tumble. I believe it's just oversight that you don't go
down with an amputation because adding sprawled just isn't in the affliction for
it.
---[Desitrus on 10/26 @ 02:40 writes]:
Further testing showed that you can move, it doesn't knock down when you move
(slice thigh did), and you can't tumble. Do you feel it is horribly unbalancing?
Remember it is not able to be used by anyone who can apply two weapon strikes,
impale, or stun while on the ground (knockdown on the other leg won't stun if
already prone).
---[Shuyin on 10/26 @ 23:18 writes]:
Given the testing, this is fine by me