Not losing legs to acid.

[Old man Stu]

I wanted to give one of characters robo legs and followed some advice where you take their shoes off and stand them in acid rain.
Sure enough, his legs went down to -200 and it said they were gone forever, but they were still there and even weirder, they just healed back to normal.
I always thought if a limb went futher than -100 it auto dropped off.
Am I bugged?

[dszombiex]

Depends on the character's race. The limb is supposed to come off at the negative value of it's max hp. For Shek this would be -125, for Skeletons this would be -200.

I used the method you state like one update ago and it worked fine, but I haven't done it this last update. It's possible something broke since then.

[Howls@TheMoon]

There are different settings for limb loss too, perhaps it changed to the one where when at the right -value the limb needs to be hit to be lost.

[Shidan]

Check your setting in the options menu. If it's set to rare it requires damage once at -100% to severe the limb, passive damage like acid can't severe them.

[dszombiex]

Originally posted by Shidan:

Check your setting in the options menu. If it's set to rare it requires damage once at -100% to severe the limb, passive damage like acid can't severe them.

Ah good call. I always have it set to "Frequent". OP might have it set to "Rare".

[Old man Stu]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks. It is set to rare.

So if I change to frequent, standing in the acid rain will cause limb loss rather than just damage?

[dszombiex]

Originally posted by Old man Stu:

Ah, gotcha. Thanks. It is set to rare.

So if I change to frequent, standing in the acid rain will cause limb loss rather than just damage?

Yup, it's a very convenient way to lose limbs. Another way is to use the sky lasers in Venge for organic squad mates. Yes, everything will get damaged but since you heal all the critical parts first and limbs last you can get your limbs reliably damaged and deteriorating, then just run to town and wait for them to fall off from not being bandaged.

[rkjesseryu]

Peeler machine mod.
Thanos would be proud.
Kills off pesky invaders should you get tired of micro looting.
Removes all limbs reliably.
Just be sure to bandage the critical parts. Sometimes they die if you don't have a skilled medic to heal fast enough.

[Blue]

Originally posted by Old man Stu:

I wanted to give one of characters robo legs and followed some advice where you take their shoes off and stand them in acid rain.
Sure enough, his legs went down to -200 and it said they were gone forever, but they were still there and even weirder, they just healed back to normal.
I always thought if a limb went futher than -100 it auto dropped off.
Am I bugged?

Answer : In Gameplay of the Settings Tab. Set Limb Loss to Frequent. Your legs will be immediately lost if theyre at what you say they are at