Note that the above sequence can never result in a rolled missing becoming a hit, but bugs can results in a rolled hit not dealing damage. THIS is the source of 100% chance misses, not hidden fractional values. Typically this results in no damage/miss pop-up occuring at all. This is fairly complicated sequence of events, and various bugs can cause the chain to break. d) When projectile explodes, transfer damage from projectile to target unit. If it's not a hit, impact cover and deal environmental damage. c) As projectile touches each Actor, make the projectile explode if it was a hit and the Actor is the target. b) Based on boolean hit/no-hit, make the projectile trajectory intersect or miss the target. It takes the following steps:Ī) Create a projectile, with a boolean hit/no-hit and the damage stored in the projectile. Instead, it uses what I call 'first person shooter mechanics' to transfer the damage from the shooter to the target. What it does NOT do is directly apply said damage to the target. For a standard shot, the game computes the hit chance, crit chance, rolls them, randomizes damage, and so on. Here's where things get more interesting. If the numbers were all too close to the expected mean, it would actually indicate a problem in the RNG. There are two significant factors possible at work here, as best I know.ġ) The RNG, which while not the greatest is pretty reasonable.Īnd independent random numbers are inherently 'streaky'. I'll also chime in with some technical observations.

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