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| − | == Combat Flag == | + | == Combat Mechanics == |
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| | * [[Stages of Combat (Game Mechanics)|Stages of Combat]] | | * [[Stages of Combat (Game Mechanics)|Stages of Combat]] |
| | * [[Combat Flag (Game Mechanics)|Combat Flag]] | | * [[Combat Flag (Game Mechanics)|Combat Flag]] |
| − | * [[Stats (Game Mechanics)|Stats]] | + | * [[HAM Bar (Game Mechanics)|HAM Bar]] |
| | + | * [[Stats (Game Mechanics)|Character Stats]] |
| | + | * [[Weapon Stats (Game Mechanics)|Weapon Stats]] |
| | * [[Targeting (Game Mechanics)|Targeting]] | | * [[Targeting (Game Mechanics)|Targeting]] |
| | + | * [[Combat Queue (Game Mechanics)|Combat Queue]] |
| | * [[Attack Speed (Game Mechanics)|Attack Speed]] | | * [[Attack Speed (Game Mechanics)|Attack Speed]] |
| | * [[Weapon Certifications (Game Mechanics)|Weapon Certifications]] | | * [[Weapon Certifications (Game Mechanics)|Weapon Certifications]] |
| | * [[Accuracy (Game Mechanics)|Accuracy]] | | * [[Accuracy (Game Mechanics)|Accuracy]] |
| | * [[Secondary Defenses (Game Mechanics)|Secondary Defenses]] | | * [[Secondary Defenses (Game Mechanics)|Secondary Defenses]] |
| | + | * [[States & Posture (Game Mechanics)|Posture, States & Negative Effects]] |
| | + | * [[State Defenses (Game Mechanics)|State Defenses]] |
| | + | * [[Dot Defenses (Game Mechanics)|Dot Defenses]] |
| | * [[Hit Locations (Game Mechanics)|Hit Locations]] | | * [[Hit Locations (Game Mechanics)|Hit Locations]] |
| | * [[Combat Difficulty Rating (Game Mechanics)|Combat Difficulty Rating]] | | * [[Combat Difficulty Rating (Game Mechanics)|Combat Difficulty Rating]] |
| | * [[Damage Calculations (Game Mechanics)|Damage Calculations]] | | * [[Damage Calculations (Game Mechanics)|Damage Calculations]] |
| − | * [[States & Posture (Game Mechanics)|Posture, States & Negative Effects]]
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| − | Players, Npcs and Creatures have three bars representing their Health, Action, and Mind pool. When you target something, its name and HAM bar will appear in your heads up display, as well as over the target's head. Red represents the Health pool, green represents the Action pool, and blue represents the Mind pool. When you deal damage to a target through combat, you will notice that its Health, Action, and Mind pools deplete, based upon the amount and type of damage dealt. This can be seen in the HAM bar by a shortening of the colored bar that represents the pool that was depleted. When any one of the three pools is completely depleted, the remainder of the colored bar will disappear and the target will die if it as npc or creature or become incapacitated if is a player.
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| − | Damage received by and done to targets is displayed in flytext over the character/npc's head. The damage hit location is also displayed. Both the hit location and damage amount done are color coded to display the ham bar(s) that were affected by the attacks.
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| − | Default or auto attacks require no HAM to use. Almost every special attack or ability in the game has a base value associated with it. This base value represents the HAM that will be deducted from the player whenever they use that ability. Weapons are also given base values which are found under the Special Attack Cost category on the item. When a special is used with a weapon, a multiplier for that particular special comes into play. The multiplier for that particular special is multiplied against the current Special Attack Cost values on the weapon, then the values are added to the base special HAM costs. The value that comes from this process is then passed on to be affected by the player's secondary stats for each HAM attribute. The final HAM cost to the player is the remainder from this process. If a player does not have sufficient HAM to cover the costs of using the special either by itself or with the equipped weapon, then the player is simply denied the ability to use the special.
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| − | Note: Base cost in the following example is the summation of the actual base ham cost of the special plus the calculated multiplier against the weapon special attack costs. For example if the base costs on a special were 50, the multiplier on the special was 1.5 and the special attack cost value on the weapon was 50 then the base cost of the special prior to going through secondary stats would be 125.
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| − | Final Ham Cost Formula:
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| − | '''Cost = Base * ( 1 - ( Stat / 1400 ) )'''
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| − | For example:<br>
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| − | 1. Unarmed Hit 2 has a base cost of 12/18/12.<br>
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| − | 2. Given an Strength/Quickness/Focus of 400/350/450, the HAM cost is reduced by 28.6% / 25% / 32%.<br>
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| − | 3. HAM cost for these stats is 9/14/8. That's 8.75 / 13.5 / 8.14 rounded.<br>
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| − | HAM cost formula where Base is the Health, Aaction or Mind base cost for the skill and Stat is the relevant Strength, Quickness and Focus value:<br>
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| − | The speed in which a player in combat attacks a target is determined by 4 things:
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| − | 1. Speed skill modifier of the player<br>
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| − | * There is a delay cap in which you can fire at no faster than 1 time per second. In other words, the max speed you can ever achieve is 1.0. ***HOWEVER*** Special Moves have their OWN Speed penalties, which means that you will probably want to achieve a modified Attack Speed less than 1.0 if you want to spam your specials quickly. A FAST weapon isn't necessarily useless because of this speed cap...you can still take advantage of an ultra-fast weapon while doing your special moves.
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| − | Speed skill modifiers are obtained from a variety of soruces; specialization in particular branches of a profession that utilizes a particular weapon that the player is using; Clothing attachments, and from temporary skill modifier enhancement stims. Speed modifiers include things such as "Two-hand weapon speed" "unarmed attack speed" and so on.
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| − | The formula for the affects of Speed skill mods on weapon speeds is as follows:
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| − | '''Attack Delay = Weapon Speed * (1 - Speed Skill/100)'''<br>
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| − | Speed Skill 10, Weapon Speed 5.0; Attack Delay = 5.0 * (1 - 10/100) = 4.5<br>
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| − | Speed Skill 10, Weapon Speed 2.0; Attack Delay = 2.0 * (1 - 10/100) = 1.8<br><br>
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| − | Speed Skill 50, Weapon Speed 5.0; Attack Delay = 5.0 * (1 - 50/100) = 2.5<br>
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| − | Speed Skill 50, Weapon Speed 2.0; Attack Delay = 2.0 * (1 - 50/100) = 1.0<br><br>
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| − | Speed Skill 80, Weapon Speed 5.0; Attack Delay = 5.0 * (1 - 80/100) = 1.0<br>
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| − | Speed Skill 80, Weapon Speed 2.0; Attack Delay = 2.0 * (1 - 80/100) = 0.4<br>
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| − | '''Special Attack Delay = Special Delay Penalty * Attack Delay'''<br><br>
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| − | Attack Delay = 5.0 * (1 - 80/100) = 1.0<br>
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| − | Special Attack Delay = 2 * 1.0 = 2.0<br><br>
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| − | When using Generic Special X, you will fire with a delay of (1.0 * 2), or 2.0 speed. So while it may seem that getting anything faster than 5.0 delay is a waste in this example, it truly isn't because of the delay penalty imposed on specials.
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| − | Speed Skill 80, Weapon Speed 2.0;<br>
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| − | Attack Delay = 2.0 * (1 - 80/100) = 0.4<br>
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| − | '''Attack Delay = ((100-ForceSpeedBonus)/100)*((100-Weapon Speed Mod)/100) * Weapon Speed * Special Delay Penalty'''
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| − | Weapon certifications are granted at certain skill boxes in the profession trees.
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| − | Weapon certifications grant a player the ability to use the full damage potential of a weapon without penalty as well as the ability to use special attacks from the profession line that the weapon is certified to. Ordinarily a weapon suffers a massive damage penalty (probably 99%) if a player attempts to use it without having trained the proper skill sets. Weapons with dots will not have their dot effect go off if the player is not certified to use that particular weapon. Lastly, players who have not trained in a profession skill box that the weapon uses cannot use specials associated with that weapon.
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| − | Not all weapon certifications are listed with the corresponding skill box in which the weapon can be used effectively by. These 'unlisted' certifications include a number of special looted and quest related items. Some weapons actually use cross profession skill modifiers and abilities. A list of these items along with what skill set they they become certified with is provided below:
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| − | Innate Certs : There a number of innate certifications that races get automatically upon character creation. There 10 for Wookiees and 9 for all other races. They are:
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| − | CDEF Pistol<br>
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| − | C12 Grenade<br>
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| − | Zixc Bug Bomb (Quest Reward)<br>
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| − | * Beam Rifle (No Certification. Probably should make this Novice Commando certification with the Launcher Pistol and have it use Rifle speed/accuracy modifiers and specials like the launcher pistol uses pistol modifiers.
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| − | * Launcher Pistol (Novice Command) - The launcher pistol is of special note in that it uses pistol accuracy and speed modifiers even though its certification is in novice commando. Launcher pistols are also allowed to use pistol, smuggler and marksman specials.
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| − | '''Looted Weapons'''
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| − | * Corsec CDEF Carbine (CDEF Carbine)
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| − | * Corsec Scout Blaster (Unknown, probably Pistols II)
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| − | * Curved Nyax Sword (Unknown, probably Brawler One-Handed I)
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| − | * Donkuwah Knife (Unknown, probably Stone Knife)
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| − | * Janta Knife (Unknown, probably Stone Knife)
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| − | * Janta Staff (Unknown, probably Wood Staff)
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| − | * Rantok - (Brawler One Handed IV)
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| − | '''Quest Rewards'''
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| − | * Modified Republic Blaster (Novice Pistoleer)
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