Initiative, Accuracy, and Defense

#36300133744 01/05/2007 15:21:16 Initiative, Accuracy, and Defense

After reading a few threads, and 9mmfu's post about how initiative works, I'm going to see if I have this right and ask a few questions:

The initiative bonuses from Vitality, and clothes that have initiative bonuses are useless unless you have Desperation. The bonuses only work during the time period that Desperation is running.

Originally I heard that initiative was used to decide who wins rolls during specials (i.e. someone does a Pistol Aerial and someone else does a Pistol Barrage, and whoever has the higher initiative wins). But now I'm hearing that initiative just adds an accuracy bonus. So really, intiative = accuracy, and initiative isn't a totally different thing like I was thinking. So is it Accuracy vs Accuracy, or Accuracy vs. Defense to decide who wins the roll?

I think the gurus here will understand this but just to make it simpler (for me, at least)

(just random numbers here) Person 1 has 50 accuracy, and 45 defense. Person 2 has 40 accuracy but 55 defense. They both try to do a special. Does person 1 win the roll due to the higher accuracy, or does person 2 win due to higher defense?

Thanks for the help.

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#36300133881 01/05/2007 20:46:37 Re:Initiative, Accuracy, and Defense

For me its random. I have good Initiative, and have Desperation, but sometimes I hit Desperation and I miss the whole time. Fight the same person and I hit 3 in a row without activating Desperation. I'd like to see some numbers myself.

#36300134046 01/06/2007 05:20:21 Re:Initiative, Accuracy, and Defense

theres always the chance you will lose even if you have a higher number for accuracy, the game now adds a random ammount to make the rolls less linear so 9/10 you might win but there still that 1/10 chance that you will miss.

#36300135680 01/08/2007 14:53:41 Re:Initiative, Accuracy, and Defense

Initiative does effect the accuracy

Initiative + Accuracy = Rolls for specials

but Initiative is only given out for Desperation otherwise the base number is 0 and 0 x 0.5 (50% bonus) is still 0.