What is Soul Drain and why does it freeze me 8 seconds just to kill me?

[sitebender]

It freezes you with a countdown and puts you at 1 health. I think only once in 14 hours of playing has it ever let me live. It feels odd to have it.

[Murray]

It tells you in the skills screen what it does, really.

Instead of dying it gives you a chance to revive yourself by killing something within the 8 seconds.

[sitebender]

By paralyzing me so I can't do anything?

It probably does tell me in the skills screen. I stopped reading about skills a while ago. Now I just buy them.

[Murray]

It's better than dying. You can use a gun, or the sword.

[sitebender]

It just happened again. I'm frozen, even with the sword equipped. I think there be a glitch.

[Murray]

You are supposed to be stuck in place, you're dying. It's a Last Stand kind of thing.

[sitebender]

But I'm paralyzed. Can't attack or turn sort of thing. I see the enemies breathing.

[Murray]

Hmmmm.

[sitebender]

ok time to do some scientific experimentation. Now that I know it happens on death. I thought it was randomly happening, because often I'd have 80 or 100 health and it would just happen. I know games like Half Life 2 would have venom head crabs that would drain you t 1 HP temporarily.

attempt 1: froze til death.
attempt 2: I could shoot, I feel I killed two people. I must have been wrong.
attempt 3: worked. Killed someone while in drain soul.
attempt 4: died, I assume because attempt 3 was my life restored
attempt 5: frozen until death
attempt 6: frozen until death

All on the same group of enemies. Maybe it depends what kills me. Swords vs bullets? Other times there were no swords or bullets. Bosses, acid monsters that used neither and it froze. Anyway, that's where I'm at now.

At least now thanks to you Murray I know why its doing what it does.

[Murray]

It's supposed to have a cooldown after you revive yourself. Like 60 seconds before you can use that ability again.

[Nonono]

i dont know how u used it, but for me it works really good, althoug it was only 3 or 4 times for whole game when i used that skill. I use only sword to fight almost all demons , no range weapon at all with only exception to kill harpys and megabosses.