1.10s Strafe question

[Ruvanal]

The test character that I had used had a couple of hundred or more IAS from some previous use for something else, so it should easily have been in one faster (less than 4) frame rates for the testing (used only bows, not crossbows). I imagine that if I had checked the actual speed, the Strafe cycling would have been at 2 frames.

Therefore my conclusion regarding target's memory and a single strafe attack (up to 10 missiles):

5 frames and slower strafe: All missiles will be checked by chances to hit;
4 frames strafe: 1 missile will go unchecked after an effective hit;
3 frames strafe: 1 missile will go unchecked after an effective hit; and,
2 frames strafe: 2 missiles will go unchecked after an effective hit.

Since I had some 3 arrow Strafe volleys that would have all 3 arrows generating hits that would preclude any of the cases that you listed there wherein one of the arrows hit and would end up stopping a successive arrow from being able to hit at all. If Strafe had been using a missile that had a NextHit, NextDelay factors on it; I would never have been able to get 3 hits out of any of the 3 volley runs. This in turn effectively precludes Strafe from having used one those missiles in the v1.09 game.

I had opted for the fast speed to help eliminate problems from a monster (zombie) from moving the position too much through an entire Strafe cycle. I was also looking for the posibility of missile overlap (i.e. the NextHit, NextDelay stuff) possibly being a part of what some players were experiencing. I was well aware of how these factors were effecting some of the missile attacks such as Nova, even though most players/modders had never even been aware of them in the game at the time.