How damage is calculated, and +1 Mutalisks - Page 3

On September 14 2010 14:35 Xapti wrote:And why are people suggesting it upgrades at +1 +.66 and +.33? fail at math, or another reason?
It should be +1 +.33 +.11 if it follows the attack..

On September 14 2010 11:13 ghettohobbit2 wrote:


You actually may be right about this... I'm going to do additional testing and edit my OP if it proves that way.

On September 14 2010 14:50 figq wrote:
I know, that's why I did those tests, to confirm or disprove that this works similarly in SC2 - and in SC2 it is with fractional internal HP instead. I read people claiming every second ling attack deals 1 whole damage - that is not true in SC2.

My guess about BW is that they optimized the engine by using integers, so they used a formula to solve any rational number equation and deal 1 whole damage on every n hits (with some incrementor). In SC2 they don't care about such petty optimizations anymore so it lags like hell even in official casts. The main positive of upgrading to true fractional is that it makes balancing and tweaking a lot easier, and especially for such large set of single player campaigns/missions.