Spiral Knights - Prevent chain status effects

Prevent chain status effects

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Wed, 03/14/2012 - 22:56

Psychodestroyer

No, I don't mean the ability to accumulate multiple status effects, I mean being affected by them because you're on something that hits you with it.

This doesn't really make sense, so read the rest of my post and I think you'll get it.

Well, I only had this problem with shock. Did a run yesterday, shock beast level, k, no problem...

A shock chroma fires a spitball at me while I was attacking, so I got hit. Meh.

While this was going on, two other shock chromas were locked on to me and immediately fired their spitballs, AS I was being shocked.

I died a death of non-stop shock. No space whatsoever to move/shield/anything. The shock status effect took hold of my movement for a moment, the other attacks dealt damage+another does of shock, which everyone knows that shock does it's 'thing' the moment you are inflicted with it, so I was held still again, then again following the next attack, then again with the FIRST shock effect coming back to hit me.

Rinse and repeat.

Aside from not getting hit/get shock resistance, anyone else have ideas? Or am I missing something obvious again?

Remedies wouldn't work; no time to move, standing on a pile of shocking spit.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 23:04

Schattentag

Uh...

Just to clarify, you're saying you don't like it when the duration of a given status goes back up when you get hit by something that would deal that status?

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 23:13

Fehzor

Ice is the worst of this, and

Ice is the worst of this, and a much better example. Say that you're being assaulted by 10 ice breathing zombies. You get frozen, and then frozen again, and again and so on. Its essentially a ridiculous one hit KO, and is incredibly cheap.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 23:16

Psychodestroyer

Nope

Not that. That's fine, even if annoying a bit.

I don't have any other example than shock sorry, and I don't think it can happen with anything BUT shock when I think about it.

What I mean is being chain-affected by the same status dealing attack that you're already afflicted with.

The shock example I put in a nutshell means that:

1) I was hit by a shock-inflicting spitball
2) Consequently, I got shocked. (Note that when you are inflicted with shock, you get the 'shock damage' animation immediately)
3) While paralyzed, I was hit by another two such spitballs, both giving the same result as the first; I was locked in place while getting shocked.
4) Before the 'shock damage' thing wore off so I could move, the shock STATUS effect I was dealt to start with kicked in and shocked me again, STILL keeping my locked in place.

In short, the constant shock stopped me from doing absolutely anything at all. Kinda like getting a shadowfire block spawned on you, except this was a status effect.

Get it?

EDIT: @Fehzor Ah, so id DOES happen with other things. But at least you can DO something while frozen. Hit something or shield/bump or use a remedy capsule (provided you have one with). With shock, NOTHING was possible.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 23:17

Fehzor

Thats a bug, not a

Thats a bug, not a suggestion... I'm pretty sure. It happens with the faust and curse. You can have 2 curses.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 23:19

Psychodestroyer

It is?

Sorry, I was not aware of that.

Should I move this to bug reports? Or look for an existing/make a new thread in there, and graveyard this?

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 23:22

Fehzor

I'd move it to the bug

I'd move it to the bug section, and leave a shadow copy. I really don't think that they'd make duplicate status effects on purpose like this though.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 23:25

Schattentag

Oh.

Yeah I think I get what you're saying now. I guess it could probably also happen with fire if you stood still (take the immediate damage from the actual infliction of fire, then stand still and get inflicted again, resulting in more damage). It's just more noticeable in shock and freeze because you're actually immobilized.

Wed, 03/14/2012 - 23:28

Fehzor

I think it only works from

I think it only works from specific sources. Like, standing still letting slags breathe fire on you won't do anything, nor will using voltaic tempest inflict a dozen stuns on players in lockdown or to monsters. Status effects are never supposed to stack with themselves, only with other status effects, eg (fire+stun+shock = legit, 2 shock effects = not so)

Thu, 03/15/2012 - 06:01

Mastersleet-Alt

ya. like in LD frost bite or

ya. like in LD frost bite or anywhere where freeze is. If i wear mad bomber or almost anything else and i get frozen , its gg for me cause my freeze wont wear off until a while and the new freeze comes up...

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