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[SkyRender]

There's not really any forum for the testing arena, so I figured I might as well post this discovery here.

I was toying around in the arena, having fun with murdering Elves with a high master Dwarf, when I noticed that the Elves kept dying really fast.  I looked at the combat logs and realized that this Dwarf was only kicking them in the head with his left foot.  And then I remembered that I'd taken control of him briefly to personally dropkick an Elf in the face earlier, and realized what was going on.  If you give an arena creature an attack command and immediately return to the regular arena mode, that character will only attempt that one attack.  So yeah, I basically made a Chuck Norris Dwarf completely by accident.  Fun times.

[Silfarion]

I gave a bronze colossus a sock

He proceeded to wack everything into the water

[Merendel]

Colossus: I'm gona beat you to death with my Pigtail fiber Sock
Otherguy: Wait can you beat someone to death with a sock?
Colossus: I dont know but I'll have fun trying.  You not so much.

[Sutremaine]

Oh, that's how you do it. I've had it happen a couple of times.

[Zammer990]

I noticed this a little while back, it's good for testing effectiveness of weaponsvsarmour

[Urist Da Vinci]

It also preserves the difficulty and squareness of the last strike, and the targeted body part. The actual results of the attack are not preserved, and if you set up infinite upper body punching, random organs in the upper body will still be bruised.

[SkyRender]

It turns out, it gets better.  If you perform an attack that severs a limb and switch back, your character will continue to attempt to sever that limb... and keep on succeeding at it.  Watch in amusement as your target loses dozens of copies of the same appendage before dying of bleeding!

[duckman]

I've had 'bronze colossus remains' flying out of a bronze colossus after doing this with creatures equipped with weapons that can hurt them.

[Zammer990]

^wondered how "bronze colossus remains" were formed

Also, if you stab someone and it get impaled, it just keeps duping the weapon, so you can pincushion someone with 30 swords in 2 seconds of play

[duckman]

^wondered how "bronze colossus remains" were formed

Also, if you stab someone and it get impaled, it just keeps duping the weapon, so you can pincushion someone with 30 swords in 2 seconds of play

I have no idea, It was just a dwarf smacking a colossus in the head with steel sword repeatedly until the head came off, remains flying all over the place in the mean time.

nvm, I can't seem to get it to happen again.

[SkyRender]

The attack has to actually sever the part during the sequence when you're controlling the character.  Immediately switch back to Arena mode after landing that hit, and the character will keep hacking that part off, even though it's no longer there.  The remains that come out of repeat "severs" are just called "partial remains", since nothing is actually being cut off.  I had an amusing bit earlier today where I had a Dwarf chop off an Elf's ear in controlled mode.  There were about a hundred Elf ears (all listed as Elf partial remains, of course) strewn across the ground before the Elf bled to death.