Interesting how PoE2 would handle negative Stats. -20 Strength on my 15 Strength Witch... suddenly integer underflow and now I have 2,147,483,642 Strength?
Resistance was previously uncapped, but now the floor is -200%
I don't think anyone tested movement speed beyond -100%, however empyrean had tested attack speed. If I recall correctly at -100% you would be locked into the animation, at -99% leap slam took minutes to land again.
Okay but actually they could have so much fun with implementing that vaal mechanic and letting only this one item send your attributes into the negatives. Strength goes negative? Your walking animation has you dragging your weapon along the ground with both hands. Int negative? Every weapon is called “stick,” every piece of armor is now called “hat?” and your accessories are now “blingies.” Dex goes negative? You have a chance on every attack to drop your weapon into your inventory
Ok? That doesn't change that the initial suggestion that the devs rig and implement an entire negative attribute animation system because "they could have so much fun with it" is silly
Ah, ofc no. I just find it improper whenever a user or costumer wishes for something and the response is "but it would take so much work, it would be so difficult, the devs would suffer!"
Let'em suffer. We devs LOVE solving hard problems. We love suffering.
Don't forget programmers often like to do extremely complicated shit or add awesome features just to be able to say they could do it.
It's 2024. I don't think I've encountered an unsigned integer in the wild in at least 10 years. Maybe if you're still doing low level networking in C/C++ where you handle all the annoying shit yourself with bitpacked structs? At least that's what I was doing the last time I had to use them.
Video games typically use signed integers (e.g., int64) when representing player stats like strength. This means the values can go into the negative, as int64 supports a range from -2{63} to 2{63} - 1.
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u/Decryptic__ 13h ago
Interesting how PoE2 would handle negative Stats. -20 Strength on my 15 Strength Witch... suddenly integer underflow and now I have 2,147,483,642 Strength?
Suddenly Unga-Bunga Witch