The City Scoop! ~ Discussion ~ Oct. 5, 2007

What about pants?

---

Indeed!

---

Troy Hickman - So proud to have contributed to and played in this wonderful CoH universe

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Yes, I understood that. I still contend the testing method is flawed and does not prove anything.

[/ QUOTE ]

Please explain to me how my testing method does not detect a 1s difference in the execution of Gash by measuring the distance between bracketing attacks. As I said as far as I can tell my method and yours are identical aside from the irrelevant difference of what specific attack is used to bracket Gash.

- Protea

[/ QUOTE ]
Because there is a 1 second pause after the attack animation before you can use another attack that you are not accounting for.

[/ QUOTE ]

You say this, and yet I am accounting for it. I am executing an attack after the attack that contains the draw animation. In A-B-C, B contains the draw, and I measure from A to C.

Are you saying that the third attack in the sequence should have a pause after it depending on whether the second attack in the sequence requires a draw? That is nonsensical. If you can make the argument about the third attack, you might as well make it about the fifth, and sixth, and so on - in other words, I have to execute an infinite attack chain to reach any conclusions.

- Protea

---

And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

I feel Protea's testing methodology is fine. There are three elements to the test, I'll keep using the same letters he was:
A - Brawl, which [should have] a consistant animation time no matter whether one's Axe is drawn or not. (This could be tough to prove, but a 1s difference would be noticable.)
B - Gash, nominally should have the same animation time drawn or not, per BAB.
C - Beheader, which is only executed with the axe already drawn and therefore will be constant.

If we work with the assumption that A and C are constant regardless of weapon draw then B is the only variable and the experiment is valid.

I'll have to play with this on my Katana scrapper when I get home today.

Edit: After reading BAB's post here it's been established that A is in fact a variable. Drat.

---

I'm going to reply to BaB's comment in the other thread, but my testing shows that A is in fact constant.

Thanks for summing up the situation so clearly.

- Protea

---

And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

[ QUOTE ]
XIXXI isn't a legal Roman Numeral. 59 is LIX.

If you split it up to XI XXI it's 11 21. I wonder... could that be a part of the solution?

[/ QUOTE ]
Or it could just be a typo .

---