Ragitsu Posted March 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2012 Re: Falling damage: all the right angles? Well' date=' the title still is: "Falling damage: all the right angles?" And it was not about direclty hitting the ground, but hitting a slope.[/quote'] Falling down a surface/slope, actually, but I never originally intended to define the surface one stops at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Waters Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Re: Falling damage: all the right angles? Well, Nathan Drake is supposed to be an amazingly skilled climber, so he's got mad grip and upper body strength: ... Yeah, well, we can all do THAT... That is pretty nuts but I doubt that even he could catch himself one handed if he was falling at several metres per second. I could be wrong. It happens a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Waters Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Re: Falling damage: all the right angles? Falling down a surface/slope' date=' actually, but I never originally intended to define the surface one [i']stops[/i] at. If you hit a sloped surface after a vertical fall then you will be better off than if you hit a perpendicular surface, as you can split the velocity into different vectors based on the angle of the impact surface...or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markdoc Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Re: Falling damage: all the right angles? If you hit a sloped surface after a vertical fall then you will be better off than if you hit a perpendicular surface' date=' as you can split the velocity into different vectors based on the angle of the impact surface...or something.[/quote'] Well, when you hit flat surface you are also making a vector change - if the surface is flat and hard that vector is at 180 degrees to your prior one, so you end up at rest, but the physics is the same. I do know what you mean, though: as I noted above, when you hit a sloping surface you "ricochet". What happens in that case is that part of your momentum is ablated - but only part (otherwise, you'd have none left and stop moving). That's why falling and hitting a slope is far more survivable than falling and hitting a flat surface: in the latter case all your momentum is bled off in one instant in the form of deformation of your body. In the former it's bled off in a series of impacts. That's much more survivable. Although - I can attest from personal experience - it's not necessarily pleasant. cheers, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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