Spangles is a lvl 60 defense warrior. She trains melee weapons at Sorrow Hill, near Chillwind Camp in West Plague. The mobs there (lvl 51) are durable enough to put up a fight, but can be reliably defeated no matter how low the weapon skill. The drops are good: runecloth, Avenger Dawn stones, and the occasional green.
Recently she donned her Gargoyle Talon Shredders (fist weapon) and set out to max her unarmed skill. Under these circumstances only the "1" key, "attack", and her shouts were active. Attack is always set to "auto".
After engaging several mobs my hand was tired from whamming the "1" key, so I just stopped all keyboard action in the middle of a fight. To my surprise, the fighting continued.
Not only that, Spangles was fighting much better without me. Her hit rate went way up, the Fiery Weapon enchantment on the fist procced madly, and the mob was demolished instead of being whittled away.
She immediatly ran over to the next mob with rage maxed, engaged it, and I removed my hands from the keyboard. Same effect: the game took over, and it was like watching a kung fu movie.
I had never seen this effect before, and I tried to find out what triggers it. If Spangles simply walks up to a mob from a cold start, swats it, and I stop playing, she stands there passively while the mob beats on her.
Rage level doesn't seem to trigger the movie. Filling the keystroke buffer? What keystroke buffer? My guess is that it is a syncronization effect: if the characters trade blows for a while at the right frequency the game will take over.
Is this remarkable to anyone else? Or just another factoid that everyone knows but me?
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Recently she donned her Gargoyle Talon Shredders (fist weapon) and set out to max her unarmed skill. Under these circumstances only the "1" key, "attack", and her shouts were active. Attack is always set to "auto".
After engaging several mobs my hand was tired from whamming the "1" key, so I just stopped all keyboard action in the middle of a fight. To my surprise, the fighting continued.
Not only that, Spangles was fighting much better without me. Her hit rate went way up, the Fiery Weapon enchantment on the fist procced madly, and the mob was demolished instead of being whittled away.
She immediatly ran over to the next mob with rage maxed, engaged it, and I removed my hands from the keyboard. Same effect: the game took over, and it was like watching a kung fu movie.
I had never seen this effect before, and I tried to find out what triggers it. If Spangles simply walks up to a mob from a cold start, swats it, and I stop playing, she stands there passively while the mob beats on her.
Rage level doesn't seem to trigger the movie. Filling the keystroke buffer? What keystroke buffer? My guess is that it is a syncronization effect: if the characters trade blows for a while at the right frequency the game will take over.
Is this remarkable to anyone else? Or just another factoid that everyone knows but me?
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