Does this game not have one shot protection?

[SHRIKE]

Just got 1 shot by a malachite lermurian on a 1.5 hour Loader run, feels kinda lame tbh

[Rhadamante]

There is, but certain items remove it.
You can see it on your HP bar, there's an overlay on the first 10% when you start, that means the OSP is there.

[Nibbie]

In addition to above, there is very little (if any at all) time after OSP that you remain invincible, so a single attack that hits multiple times, two attacks very close to each other, or a single attack that applies a status like bleed, can still kill through OSP.

[SHRIKE]

It was definitely just one attack, but I did have a shield generator item, and I know they used to remove OSP but I thought that was fixed because it was a bug right?

[Ratto]

RoR2 players are on the average bad at the game because they have no awareness of their surroundings so Hoopo added a one shot protection mechanic, so yes.

[Ittrix]

OSP has always been a thing in RoR 2, but it's LITERALLY one shot protection. It makes it so one shot can only take out 90% of your HP. Thing is, it only prevents one source of damage. If you get hit by a malachite lemurian fireball and that brings you to 10% HP by triggering OSP, it's not going to stop the DoT the fireball inflicts. If you try and face tank a malachite wisp, that is a shotgun spray of bullets so one of them will proc OSP, and the rest will kill you. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is up to each person. I personally view it as reasonable. I think if you get in a situation where you're taking heavy hits from multiple sources of damage, you oughta die.
Elites are borked and do too heavy of hits which is a separate issue.

Shield generators don't remove OSP, and I don't think they ever have. They *were* avoided like the plague for a long time though. It was a really common strategy (still is, vaguely) to stack healing items so you'd take a hit, drop to 10% HP, spam your heals and go to above 90% HP then take another hit. Rinse wash repeat really rapidly and you theoretically won't die. Shield generators would prevent you from going above 90% HP really rapidly if you have enough of them, since 10% of your HP would be unhealable shields. That could be what you were thinking of.

[Nimja]

And Elder Lemurian firebreath damages you very quickly and you will melt in Monsoon. OSP can't protect you from ongoing damage.

I've lost a lot of monsoon runs to them... And Imps, for some reason. Their melee is fast and can easily kill you.

Basically... Whenever you get cocky in Monsoon, you die ^_^

[SHRIKE]

It was one of those malachite ball things that the mobs with malachite on throw out, nothing else in my run had been doing any damage to me then I got one shotted out of the blue

[MommaBee]

Ah yea malachite delays all healing of any sort, they also do a butt load of damage, so its best to take those things out quickly before they get alot of those balls out. or it can REALLY mess up a good run