charge damage

[Ammeir]

I just noticed that I can charge at a guy and strike him with a war sword at full gallop (horse speed 11) and do 30 damage.
and when i stop and hit the same guy I do go damage. I really think that charging at a guy should give a significant bonus to damage even if it is not a lance.

 

[Lost-Lamb]

Actually it already does a certain % of bonus damage (Speed bonus)

 

[MMad]

The speed bonus tends to be very significant with swords, but in my limited experience (I tend to play as an archer, mostly) the timing of the swing is more important than your speed. If you swing too late, you won't do a lot of damage even if you're going 60mph.

 

[okiN]

It's true, timing is important. You have to hit them full swing; not too late, not too early.

 

[Ingolifs]

Also, armour adds a variable to this. If some armour has an armour value of X, then the damage absorbed is a random value between X/2 and X.

You also have the effect of hitting the parson in a different location. Headshots generally do more damage than body shots, but this also depends on the quality of armour the person is wearing.

So the things that can differ when performing the same attack on the same person are as follows:

Speed of your character
Speed of your weapon when it hits the enemy
location of where the enemy was hit
random amount of damage absorbed, somewhere between half and full armour value.

 

[Sir Prince]

As I also point out: hooves are supposed to be HARD and are suppsed to HURT. ALOT!!! I often get trampled for no damage.