The whole spaghetti legs problem can be solved with a little tissue_template_default tweaking. Thanks to the intuitive coding it takes literally two minutes.
After a little arena testing, it seems size matters a lot more this version. You get hit once by a particularly large creature in the torso or head and you explode into gore and you're dead instantly, bronze colossi can now kill most creatures in one go by doing this. Bit more realistic reaction to being hit in the chest with a fist the size of an SUV than a few broken ribs.
Throwing and falling are particularly more deadly by way of this also, as a torso/head hit to the ground and you turn into some sort of cheap supermarket equivalent of tomato puree.