Whirlwind Breakpoints

[Hammerman]

This is my understanding of whirlwinds attack rate... but I'm not 100% sure of all of this.

Every 4th frame of the sequence, the game checks if it should make an attack. For the first time (frame 4 in the sequence), you will get an attack. The second time (frame 8), you also get an attack. After that, you get an attack based on the weapons ias/wsm:

delay = a1_frames*256 / ((weapon ias+wsm+100)*anim speed/100)

a1_frames = frame length of normal attack (attack1)
anim speed = 256 for all attacks
weapon ias = sum of fast/faster/fastest attack speed mods on the weapon
wsm = negative 'speed' from weapons.txt

This is then "breakpointed":

delay = real delay
0 = 4
12 = 6
15 = 8
18 = 10
20 = 12
23 = 14
26 = 16

If dual weilding, it changes wich weapon to use each successful attack. As before, the game checks every 4th frame if it should make an attack, and if the delay has passed you will get an attack.

bit ot: The formula I gave for 'delay' is also used to determine the very slow-very fast attack speed display on weapons (and it is also used in wereform attack speed calculations):

very slow attack speed = 28 or higher
very fast attack speed = 9 or lower

The rest of the variations (fast, slow, normal, etc) are different for char/weapon.