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Message Edited by Lhargylflharfh on 06-11-2004 08:43 PM

Message Edited by Lhargylflharfh on 06-11-2004 08:44 PM

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RankorCity wrote:

Prove to me that a 35 percent damage slice is the highest you will see...Show me concrete, bulletproof evidence that it CAN NOT be done

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Message Edited by KaiRan on 06-11-2004 03:09 PM

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Intelerebel wrote:

Dreven I got a lot of respect for you bro, but I just wanted to make one little correction to what you said.

The slicing percentage recieved from the powerup exploit is, in fact, accurate. The reason the damage numbers seem way off is because the powerup stays on the weapon and is not destroyed when the weapon is sliced. Once the powerup is either removed or used to the point of extinction, the gun will have the accurate value concurrent to the original registered percentage.

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Actually...here's what happens...

If I get banned for posting this, I get banned, but oh well...I've canceled anyway.

Say I tested this on a CDEF pistol with the following stats:

Min Damage: 25

Max Damage: 50

And I used a +30% max damage powerup, which in this case is a 15 point gain.

That makes the max damage 65.

Now, I get a 35% damage slice. 9 point gain to Min...23 point gain to Max.

That makes the stats, with powerup still attached 34-88.

After the powerup is removed, or wears off, the stats then drop to 34-73.

I'm assuming this is because, even though the powerup is no longer on the pistol, it retains the 23 point gain from the powered up slice, instead of refiguring it to a 17-18 point gain it should have been without the powerup.

The net result shows the accurate 35% slice on min damage, but the math on the max damage shows it to be a 45% slice.

Now, if they've addressed this and it is no longer possible, more power to them. But that's what it sounded like happened in the post that started this whole debate that's been going on for the last 2 pages.

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RankorCity wrote:

On that same 38 percent damage slice, the math equaled an actual 42 percent slice.

Oddly enough, using the same math I just used in my previous post, I experimented with a few numbers.

Guess what I discovered...

A +30% max damage powerup combined with a 33% damage slice comes out to net approximately a 42% slice.

"But it was a 38% slice, nimrod!"

Given that system messages are sometimes hard to read, I've often had to doublecheck the numbers because 0, 3, and 8 often look alike depending on where you are and what's going on in the background at the time. Not saying you can't read, but I've made the mistake of reporting inaccurate numbers more than once because of this...then having to correct myself after I doublechecked.