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Developer question about Michael Myers

AhoyWolf AhoyWolf
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Is there a reason why can Michael Myers only stalk Survivors up to 39.85 metres? Why can't he stalk Survivors up to some nicer number, like 40 metres?

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  • WeenieDog WeenieDog

    The only reason I can think of is that maybe due to how his stalk depends on how far the survivors are, that at that range, the stalk rate so small that it rounds to 0 anyway.

  • Phasmamain Phasmamain

    I’m guessing it’s because he is quite outdated and they used weird numbers back then like spies having a percentage chance of activating as well as calm spirit

  • AhoyWolf AhoyWolf

    @WeenieDog said:

    The only reason I can think of is that maybe due to how his stalk depends on how far the survivors are, that at that range, the stalk rate so small that it rounds to 0 anyway.

    That's probably right, I didn't even think of this option tbh.

  • TripleSteal TripleSteal

    @WeenieDog said:

    The only reason I can think of is that maybe due to how his stalk depends on how far the survivors are, that at that range, the stalk rate so small that it rounds to 0 anyway.

    To develop this concept, it could be that it was initially meant to be 40m by devs, but since stalk rate is a discrete number, after coding a formula to calculate it it turned out that on the (39.85; 40.0] range stalk rate was indeed rounded to 0. And then nobody really bothered to correct it to make max stalk distance 40m as (presumably) was planned initially, because the deviation is pretty much irrelevant.


    I did some maths; if the assumption is true, it seems that stalk rate modifier is calculated with0.00125% as a base unit (1/8 of 1%) with any intermediate values being rounded up, and then the final figure is rounded to 0.005 (or 1/2 of 1%) before being put into stalk rate formula.

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