Traps / one shot?

[VerdantDragon]

My character seemed to get one-shotted from a trap, just before opening a chest, or was it the chest? My character was very tanky and had 75% life at the moment.

I'm playing on hardcore-extreme, just wanted to know if this is a thing.. so I know for next time what to do.

Otherwise, I'm so happy to have found this game, it's amazing!

[Multigun]

The patch that released hardcore mode (very recent patch) reduced damage to no more than 75% damage from traps. I'm not sure how that's calculated, and I am unsure if it carries over into hardcore difficulty as the patch notes indicate it affects nightmare. Its also possible that one wasn't one of the affected traps, because the patch notes indicate "most" rather than "all". So thus, its possible it:

* Does 75% of your max health damage rather then 75% remaining health (no idea, guessing here)

* Doesn't extend to hardcore, only affects nightmare (again, no idea. People on the Wayfinder discord probably knows more on this)

* Unintended or a trap that wasn't part of the patch

All guesses on my part. Probably not super helpful. I suggest trying the Wayfinder discord as people in there seem really knowledgeable.

[VerdantDragon]

Thanks so much for your quick and precise response!!

So in summary, I should make sure my character is healed to 100% before advancing into further potential traps ;).

I have to start over evidently, so this is encouraging to know how to manage that.

I'm a bit addicted to hardcore modes, I'm really glad the devs added that and nightmare.

I hope this game has a really bright future despite the rocky start, it has so much potential and it's my favoriate action RPG to date.

[Nihil]

For the feeling of it i would say traps always damage you for a certain 30% of your HP. Doesn't matter how much max HP you have, i always get 2shotted by traps. 1hit brings me always around 20% of health.
But never checked the precise numbers.

[Mereoleona, Fister of Fury]

which character were you using? if i use Lora or Senja i generally get one shot by environmental damage and traps due to the damage bug with both characters (on nightmare difficulty and hard mode)