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Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/18/2016 11:43 AM CDT

> mstrike punch leopard
You concentrate intently, focusing all your energies.
You explode into a fury of strikes and ripostes, moving with a singular purpose and will!
You attempt to jab a mastodonic leopard!
You have decent positioning against a mastodonic leopard.
UAF: 301 vs UDF: 284 = 1.059 * MM: 94 + d100: 56 = 155
... and hit for 3 points of damage!
Hasty strike to chest doesn't do much harm.
Strike leaves foe vulnerable to a followup kick attack!
You lose the intense focus of your ki energy.
You attempt to kick a mastodonic leopard!
You have decent positioning against a mastodonic leopard.
UAF: 271 vs UDF: 284 = 0.954 * MM: 83 + d100: 10 = 89
A close miss!
You attempt to kick a mastodonic leopard!
You have decent positioning against a mastodonic leopard.
UAF: 271 vs UDF: 284 = 0.954 * MM: 88 + d100: 8 = 91
A close miss!
You attempt to kick a mastodonic leopard!
You have good positioning against a mastodonic leopard.
UAF: 271 vs UDF: 284 = 0.954 * MM: 84 + d100: 72 = 152
... and hit for 41 points of damage!
Hard kick to upper arm tears several muscles!
The mastodonic leopard is stunned!

Your series of strikes and ripostes leaves you winded and out of position.
Roundtime: 8 sec.

I would have expected it to go back to PUNCH after missing the tier-up on the KICK. Bug or working as intended?

MAZEIKISJ

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Re: Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/18/2016 11:59 AM CDT

IIRC, focused mstrike UAC will keep using the prospective tier-up attack until you hit with it, then switch back to your specified attack. So in that clip there, if you had one more focused swing, you would'a punched.

-james, bristenn's player

You think to yourself, "FFF-"

A giant white bunny hurls a powerful lightning bolt at you!

You evade the bolt by a hair!

JPERRY

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Re: Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/18/2016 03:03 PM CDT

But if it fails the tier up attempt shouldn't it fall back to the regular swing? Once you miss with a tier-up opportunity it's lost until the next one. Is that different with mstrike?

MAZEIKISJ

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Re: Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/18/2016 03:27 PM CDT

You know, as I've found, the tier up opportunity lasts for a little while even if you miss the first and some subsequent attempts- so I'm assuming it lasts for x amount of seconds as opposed to being cancelled by a miss. So in this case here it would keep trying to nab that tier up due to its functionality with MOC. If you were doing singular manual attacks I think the tier up opportunity would stick around until either it ran out of time (a limit I don't have a number on) oor you got a different tier up opportunity (even if it was the same type of opportunity, but just a new opportunity), which would refresh the duration of the opportunity.

A NIR or someone with more extensive research into it would have to confirm, though, 'cause these are just my observations.

-james, bristenn's player

You think to yourself, "FFF-"

A giant white bunny hurls a powerful lightning bolt at you!

You evade the bolt by a hair!

PFLATS

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Re: Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/18/2016 05:56 PM CDT

>You know, as I've found, the tier up opportunity lasts for a little while even if you miss the first and some subsequent attempts- so I'm assuming it lasts for x amount of seconds as opposed to being cancelled by a miss.

This has been my impression as well. You also lose the tier-up chance immediately if you use the wrong strike.

PFLATS

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Re: Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/18/2016 05:57 PM CDT

not really an edit: You'll notice that it does tier up to Good once the third kick finally connects

GS4-FINROS

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Re: Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/18/2016 10:56 PM CDT

Your unarmed attack status against a particular foe remains valid for two minutes, refreshed with every attack against that foe whether it connects or not. A preexisting tier-up potential is retained across a miss, or across an involuntary strike (Flurry or Mongoose) that doesn't produce a tier-up strike on its own.

MAZEIKISJ

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Re: Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/19/2016 06:40 AM CDT

So to clarify, le tier-up potential/opportunity is retained for two minutes? If so that's pretty chill.

-james, bristenn's player

You think to yourself, "FFF-"

A giant white bunny hurls a powerful lightning bolt at you!

You evade the bolt by a hair!

JPERRY

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Re: Bug with focused MSTRIKE punches? 09/19/2016 12:42 PM CDT

Oh, nice. Thanks for the update that's quite useful to know.

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