How death works?

[Fostik]

How it's work for animals?
Just feed some archer for hunting, went to forest and give moose a 250 hp shot. He didnt ran and you know what happens in that cases.
So, moose just knocked me out, and then did 200 yellow hp hit. Was that a chance to just permakill? So, any animal can just oneshot even if victim will have 500 hp?

[viznew]

How it's work for animals?
Just feed some archer for hunting, went to forest and give moose a 250 hp shot. He didnt ran and you know what happens in that cases.
So, moose just knocked me out, and then did 200 yellow hp hit. Was that a chance to just permakill? So, any animal can just oneshot even if victim will have 500 hp?

i hate to say it but when i fight moose i just stand there and barrage till 6 ip then cleave i think will run before 2nd cleave comes but thats just me prob dif for others
and mooses hurt when knock you out iv come close to dieing to a moose

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this was all moose after knock out

[Fostik]

Umm, i understand that mooses are stronk, but the question, is that real that animal can just make a hit equal your max hp?

[zebratul]

Tecnically you will never die to a animal/cave-in if you encounter it with full HHP, as you only get about ~30% of your HP in concussion damage and around 15% HHP damage from SHP damage when you fall unconscious.
There are complications, however. An enraged bear will kill you when you're down. If you get KO'd while on a boat, you can drown.
If you're fighting multiple instances of enemies, their damage can stack into one big hit due to server frequences acting up, and it's possible to recieve massive wretched gores that could kill you. Some animals have crazy strong IP attack, and if they time it with you having 100% openings, you might take to much grievous damage to stay alive (that's what seemed to happen to your archer).
And also any combination of the above will certainly kill you even with 100% HHP.

So, in short - be careful and heal your HHP damage.

[Saergof]

With the recent combat system changes beginners are quite susceptible to bear hugs. I regularly, about once per month, spot new skeletons around my hermit camp. One night I was careless and ran into a bear with my naked scout with 130 HHP and without a single scratch. I expected that bear gonna K.O. my char, but no, his first strike bring opening near to the max (I would like to point that after the first strike the mentioned character still was at full hp), and second hit send the char, I'm not sure where. Maybe into Valhalla if receiving a punch from a bear counts as death in battle.