Shattered Kingdoms

Be sure you understand how it works before you do a help file. Note the change listed here:

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lol, we're all noobs. I totally forgot that headbutt doesn't self-KO anymore.

I'd have to look at the code to know for sure, but that original log doesn't look right to me. If you outright miss, I would think it shouldn't check for the KO. If you hit but fail to do damage due to armor, then it should still check for the KO. But that would be a different message, wouldn't it?

The message is similar, but colored differently. Carsetius already confirmed that the skill hit but did no damage, so the check for KO is still good. He just didn't realize there was a damage check as well as a KO check.

EDIT: The message for an outright miss is green, where as the one for no damage is white with red "misses you" text, iirc.

Blech. Should change those messages, then.

"Dude's headbutt completely misses you." <-- complete miss

"Dude's headbutt glances off your temple." <-- no damage, but still chance to stun

I was going to respond and say, "No, hold up. Every time I've been knocked out it hurt pretty bad." But, then I started to think. I don't actually remember if it hurt or not on most of those times. Logically, it would hurt, right?

Man ... it's almost like if the tree fell in the woods, thing, isn't it?

So the skill succeeds or fails in execution. Then it can connect or miss the target. Then it can damage and/or knock-out the victim or not. That's four checks in the use of the skill, right?

So there'd need to be some twenty-or-so messages for the skill, for critical failure, failure, no effect, success, and critical success of each step?

Or are those not the outcome categories, perhaps?

Either way, you could split it into two lines of output after the attack 'connects,' one for damage and the other for the status effect. That would simplify matters.

This is already the way it works.

I guess I just don't encounter many butt heads in-game. The thread was leading me to believe it was sort of like bash, where the output is a bit of a mess. Sorry.