In a prior patch, an attempt was made to nerf the Maul ability by applying a percentile penalty instead of a flat -15 to accuracy each hit. I believe the intention was to reduce the chance to hit by 15% each swing. What has actually happened, however, is that the accuracy is reduced by 15%, and then on the next swing, the remaining accuracy is reduced by 15%, and so on. This means the penalty shrinks with each hit. It also means that your chance to hit will probably never hit 0%, as it's on a curve.
For instance, say I have a Cave Bear with 135 accuracy (which, in my current game, I have several around that amount). I'll count the swings in the first column, then in the 2nd column show you what the chance to hit will be for that swing based on the current percentile reduction, and in the 3rd column show you what it would be with the old flat reduction. These numbers disregard the 97% hit cap since that is not the number used in the equation.
You can see below that, for swings 2-6, the bear does indeed have a better chance to hit with the flat reduction, but after that it has a better chance to hit with the percentile reduction, still having a chance (albeit very small) to hit even after 30 swings, whereas the flat reduction maxes out at 9 hits. You might think that the chances of getting to 15 consecutive hits is very small, but my bears have done it more than once (never got close to 30, though). That's something they couldn't do with the old system.
I think the intention was to have -15% from the initial accuracy taken off, which in this example would be 20.25 (limiting the bear to 7 hits), however if you watch the hit chance as the bear swings (keep your mouse cursor over its target), you'll see it update realtime, and you'll see the hit chance reducing slower and slower as it goes.
| Swing |
Hit Chance -% |
Hit Chance -Flat |
| 1 |
135 |
135 |
| 2 |
114.75 |
120 |
| 3 |
97.54 |
105 |
| 4 |
82.91 |
90 |
| 5 |
70.47 |
75 |
| 6 |
59.9 |
60 |
| 7 |
50.92 |
45 |
| 8 |
43.28 |
30 |
| 9 |
36.79 |
15 |
| 10 |
31.27 |
0 |
| 11 |
26.58 |
0 |
| 12 |
22.59 |
0 |
| 13 |
19.2 |
0 |
| 14 |
16.32 |
0 |
| 15 |
13.87 |
0 |
| 16 |
11.79 |
0 |
| 17 |
10.02 |
0 |
| 18 |
8.52 |
0 |
| 19 |
7.24 |
0 |
| 20 |
6.15 |
0 |
| 21 |
5.23 |
0 |
| 22 |
4.45 |
0 |
| 23 |
3.78 |
0 |
| 24 |
3.21 |
0 |
| 25 |
2.73 |
0 |
| 26 |
2.32 |
0 |
| 27 |
1.97 |
0 |
| 28 |
1.67 |
0 |
| 29 |
1.42 |
0 |
| 30 |
1.21 |
0 |
