[Act 1] Blighted Village - Cracked Beam

[Carynara]

Question about the Ogres in Blighted Village.

Perception reveals a Cracked Beam with 2 HP. I figure it would be kinda cool to lull the ogres into a false sense of friendship, then walk away and break the beam so the entire roof caves in on them.

However this doesn't seem to work. If I shoot or Magic Missile the beam to open combat, nothing happens apart from aggroing the Ogres. The beam stays intact.
Once combat starts, I'm unable to target the beam anymore.

Is this WAI...? What's the purpose of the Perception check, then, if I can't interact properly with the beam?

[OnlyOffensive]

the purpose of that beam is to give you hint that staying on that platform bad. Ogres hit it and you falll. Because its obvious most players would want to attack them from above

[Carynara]

Ah. Well I wanted to kill the Ogres with the collapsing platform... silly me, trying to interact with the enviroment... ^^

[CorwynCorey]

Originally posted by Carynara:

Ah. Well I wanted to kill the Ogres with the collapsing platform... silly me, trying to interact with the enviroment... ^^

You CAN do it... but they have to be UNDER it... and they arent. I knocked it down on one playthrough... didnt do as much damage as simply shooting them would have.

"Sometimes getting tricky isnt the answer.... Sometimes the answer is just a big hammer."
-Thor, to Loki, at some point. Maybe many points.