Fell one story... and died...

[FistfulOfZen]

What the actual hell. Falling one story might result in injuries, maybe even a twisted ankle, but the only way it would result in death is by being impaled or falling face first. Seriously, this is kind of ridiculous. A two story drop? A three story drop? Yeah, maybe fatal, but both still highly survivable. Do we not understand how physics works?

[Mayo]

Agreed, this really needs to be fixed.

[Greep]

Well, you can definitely die falling out of the second floor. Or just break your spine which would be death here.

But there's realism and what's good for the game of course. Honestly losing any character to something stupid two months in is pretty boring since you'll just be doing the same preppy stuff in weeks 2-5 all over again like some grindy MMO.

[SirPoppss]

Irl i've fallen more than 1 story and only had minor injuries. But usually your injuries depend on both luck, and how much your carrying.

if you're carrying a lot and extremely encumbered, you'll likely die from a single story fall. Where as you could survive probaly survive a multiple story if your not encumbered.

So you was encumbered or got crappy luck :P But i do agree the fall damage needs work

[Lord Quintus]

real life is boring. not everyone gets a heros death, timmy doesnt get saved from the rape scene, and falling from the second floor can kill you when your in a stressed situation and fall. BTW you can survive from falling from the second floor happened to me today im sure it take a lot of health and you probbly wasn't at full health.

[SirPoppss]

Heh. and you'll either receive a fracture, a deep wound or just a loss of health. It depends on your traits (Lucky and Unlucky), the severity of the fall and how much you're carrying.

I rarely get deep wounds. Only had a small knock to my health once, from a 1st floor fall.

[Bladehelm]

I know video games are not real life, but in real life falling just one story could totally kill you. Falling off a CURB can kill you if you land the wrong way. People die in idiotic mundane ways all the time in the real world!

[Garath]

There are plenty of real life stories of people tripping on nearly flat ground and breaking their neck, its not necesarilly always how far your fall but how you land. If you fall off a 15 foot building and land on your legs you will probably break a leg or two and probably a couple of ribs, but if you fall off the same building and land on your head then your done or at the very least will need assistance for the rest of your life, and being paralyzed from a fall in the zombie apocolypse is not a good thing.

[FistfulOfZen]

No, Bladehelm and Garath, unless the individual falling is elderly, no, people don't die of falls from standing. And even then, those elderly people *rarely* die of the fall, but rather from secondary infections or pneumonia. Notice, a 27 year old isn't elderly.

My character didn't fall and hit a curb. Even if the game did consider such rarified situations (it doesn't), that's not what happened. My character fell one storey. I was working on building floor panels on a fortification, and then my character fell THROUGH the roof of a house, then spat my character a few blocks away and killed her.

My suggestions are...
1) Characters shouldn't fall off a roof unless they are running or jumping.
2) The energy introduced in a one storey fall isn't enough to kill a 27 year old, UNLESS they dive head first into a box of knives.
3) The primary threat in the game should be the zombies, not bad physics.

That's all I'm saying.

[print]

my great uncle died falling from one story, them are the breaks

[FistfulOfZen]

Do you guys understand the difference between an 85 year old falling one storey and a 27 year old falling one storey?

[SirPoppss]

i do..

[Syndicake ☠]

From a gameplay perspective one floor fall should always be survivable, this is a compromise since falling down, especially when building is really easy and instant permadeath isn't very dramatic or fun.

[zeeb]

Originally posted by Greep:

Well, you can definitely die falling out of the second floor. Or just break your spine which would be death here.

But there's realism and what's good for the game of course..

Falling from the second floor and dying = Realism?
Whatever you're smoking, share it.

[SirPoppss]

*eats popcorn*

[Arachnade]

Originally posted by zeeb:

Originally posted by Greep:

Well, you can definitely die falling out of the second floor. Or just break your spine which would be death here.

But there's realism and what's good for the game of course..

Falling from the second floor and dying = Realism?
Whatever you're smoking, share it.

Go hold 100lbs in a back pack and jump off a two story building. You guerentee will break something and need to be in a hospital for a long ass time. You know why? Because your legs will both give out and you will slam your head into the pavement. No matter how you fall if your legs give like that you will hit your head very hard on the ground and it will result in a high chance of death.