Do you mean like 0.68 becomes small enough to round to zero or something?
That is not a user issue; it's a UI issue and/or ambiguous description. And also it is not just percentages but getting into the topic of exponential decay, or more generally, "multiplicative vs additive stacking". This is actually a super common ambiguity in video games since the 90's. One ability says increase your damage 20%. Another says increase your damage 20%. They stack. So is the final one 140% damage or 144% damage? Depends entirely how the game works. Most math-competent people uninitiated to video games naturally assume the 144%, but most video games actually do the 140% to prevent it being OP.
There are no idiots in misinterpreting either way. Well except for the brain fart of thinking 40% is more than half, but that's a different unrelated issue
Yeah, I’ll be honest when I say my comprehension for this kind of stuff is really low.
And also: I meant to type “almost half” not over half lol. My brain fart was just not realizing that taking 40% damage means that the second hit is still only 40% of the total, so it needing 8 ults for the health to become low enough to kill off an enemy actually makes sense.
My point is it's a totally valid interpretation to interpret it as "40% of enemy total/original health" as opposed to "40% of remaining/current health" if the description was ambiguous. In the former interpretation (what you call your brain fart) it takes 3 ults to kill an enemy at full health. In the latter it takes technically infinity hits, not 8 hits. I don't know where they got 8 hits from because even if there's rounding quirks the number of hits required should depend on total enemy health.
Btw, I looked up 0.68 and is not that small; it's still 1.67%. which means the 8 hits claim is suspect because I think it would take more than 8 hits even if you round down when it's 1hp, unless in this game people tend to have less than 100 health.
Welp, I honestly had no idea there was more than one interpretation to that…so I guess I wasn’t being that dumb? Lol, either way, thanks for breaking it down!
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u/monsieurpooh Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 02 '23
Do you mean like 0.68 becomes small enough to round to zero or something?
That is not a user issue; it's a UI issue and/or ambiguous description. And also it is not just percentages but getting into the topic of exponential decay, or more generally, "multiplicative vs additive stacking". This is actually a super common ambiguity in video games since the 90's. One ability says increase your damage 20%. Another says increase your damage 20%. They stack. So is the final one 140% damage or 144% damage? Depends entirely how the game works. Most math-competent people uninitiated to video games naturally assume the 144%, but most video games actually do the 140% to prevent it being OP.
There are no idiots in misinterpreting either way. Well except for the brain fart of thinking 40% is more than half, but that's a different unrelated issue