Take extra death rolls when you're being beaten on

[TDHooligan]

About the PR

Players in death saves take an extra death roll when they take 5 or more BRUTE, the damage dealt provides a logarithmic penalty to their success rate.

• This only rolls when you're taking damage and would already be rolling for death
• The roll can only be triggered once every 0.4 seconds (to limit rolls from rapid-fire weapons)
• It ignores synatropine
• It probably needs adjusting, depending on the results of a test merge (if any)
• The penalty is 5% at 5 damage, requiring 2x additional damage to raise another 5%
  (5 = 5%, 15 = 10%, 35 = 15%, 75 = 20%)

Why's this needed?

Death rolls in crit are balanced around a few things:

• They occur every life tick (so need to be a low % to not just kill you instantly)
• People should have time to be treated, given they aren't very unlucky
• Brain damage and OXY are introduced in huge quantities to adjust survival odds after 30 seconds or so

This causes some weird behaviour:

• If you lack a crazy weapon, beating people down in deep crit provides little to no benefit (1 punch = +0.05% death odds)
• Repeatedly point-blanking people with powerful kinetics can waste a LOT of ammo (ie if life ticks are slow)
• Smacking people with strong weapons, when they are most certainly are dead, can feel frustrating if they have good RNG
• With synatropine, you can tank obscene damage well past the 'you lose' threshold, RNG permitting.

I do, however, know that we like a good comeback - I am open to lowering the odds.

Changelog

(u)TDHooligan
(*)Brute damage now causes people in deep critical to roll extra death saves.

[M-Earthfire]

I kinda feel like this should have a minimum damage to trigger. Roling additional death rolls on someone in full armor when you try to hit them with punches kinda sound silly, even if the additional chance is really low.

But beyond that, i am kinda liking it, but got no idea if the numbers are right. That is something i would certainly like to see play out in a testmerge.

[TDHooligan]

i forgot to write it only rolls on 5+ brute

[TDHooligan]

i don't see many negative comments about this - from my perspective the numbers could be good as-is.