Spiral Knights - The cutter's ghost swing

The cutter's ghost swing

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Mon, 04/15/2013 - 00:26

Fropps

Okay, I've been thinking about this for a while and I've never heard anyone mention it, so here I go.

Because you are propelled forward while using the dread venom striker, the ghost swing almost never hits as it appears where your last swing was, meaning the second swing appears behind you.

But when using the wild hunting blade, as far as I can tell from the animation, the second "wolver swing" appears just in-front of the blade, meaning that it hits a monster even if you are being propelled forward.

Is this true? I can't test it because I don't own a wild or non-wild hunting blade myself.

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 01:59

Sandy-Knight

Do you mean...?

Are you saying that the DVS's movement via strikes is so fast that you leave behind your ghost swings?
Like this:
Swing 1, step forwards for swing 2
Swing 1's ghost strike is currently swinging through you.

Animations aren't anything to go off, BTW (see also: Magnus lines) but since you brought it up, one of the two swings slightly faster than the other, and I can't remember which. Are you reading, Bopp? *hint hint*

If that's true, that's certainly interesting, so thanks for posting it.

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 04:19

Zeeca

Animation of the Wild Hunting

Animation of the Wild Hunting blade is in front when you are standing and in the back while you are moving, Dread Venom Striker's animation has a ghost sword starting it's swing in front of you and then going to the back but it still appears in front of you and then it swings down and keeps going but it doesn't get a chance to strike when you are moving forward, sometimes it does when your enemy was getting ready to attack so you didn't push it but you miss the second hit while you are moving quite often and that goes for both blades, both the WHB and the DVS act the same from what i noticed.

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 07:52

Bopp

I haven't noticed this

I haven't taken screen video and pored over it frame-by-frame or anything, but my impression is that this "ghost swing missing behind you" phenomenon doesn't happen on DVS or WHB much, if at all. I mean, when I use either of these swords, they just spew high and low damage numbers all over the place, suggesting that all five strokes are landing two damage numbers each.

Fropps, have you actually observed ghost swings missing a lot? Against which enemies? Does Zeeca's remark about the timing of the enemy attack affect things?

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 10:34

Fehzor

They both seem to effect the same region that misses when you push them back to me.

Mon, 04/15/2013 - 15:13

Sky-Core

@Zeeca

Im confused

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