I think…. Made sense in my head, at least.

So like block to slash hits I *can’t* land with Cursed I *can* land with HoD. And run to slash hits I *can’t* land with HoD I *can* land with Wave. LOL

I think that made sense.

Oh and Straight hasn’t put the Iaido Reflexes Trainer up on SLX…I should poke him about that!

I was unable to find it on SL Exchange, and I had considered linking to it. That does remind me that I’ve been meaning for quite some time now to do a post on (and provide links to) C:SI community-created training tools and gadgets. That works best, of course, when there’s a blog or other website to link to
Thanks for the info, I’ll definitely check it out.

I will have to defer to your judgment on this, as my own combat skill is far below yours. Logic tells me that there must be more to the story, as average human response times are far greater than that, but there’s no arguing a healthy success rate like yours.

Same fighting style, same fingers, same taps, same timing…he’ll *annihilate* me if I use Cursed, he’ll almost always beat me if I use Wave, but I can routinely beat him if I use HoD.

Then again different blades suit different styles…I need my trusty Wave to beat Djinn! ROFL

Do the swords use the sword bullets to detect hits?

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If that is the case, then the data from the trainer doesn’t necessarily mean anything, because those bullets are not being used to determine hits. The swords definitely “feel” faster or slower to me, and Aimee’s data is pretty much the order I would give them by how they feel. But that “feel” comes from the attack animation, the blood animation, and the sound effect. If you think about it, none of that needs to have anything to do with when the hit is actually determined by the code to be a hit or a block.

I don’t want to get too much into C:SI-specific code, I’d prefer to use generalities, but suffice it to say that there is a relationship strong enough that the timing of the sword bullet is intimately tied to the timing of the damage.

Having said that, there are various factors that such training tools simply cannot account for, and while they are clearly a useful tool for their intended purpose, they simply cannot provide 100% accurate data at all times.

I would go farther than just saying the Musashis have a reputation for being different with jump slashes. I can demonstrate exactly how they are different, and produce a successful or a failed jump slash on request every time.

I understand, and I believe you. I was just trying to explain a bit about why you see such differences when, if you were to look at the code responsible for that action in all of the swords, you would see nothing that accounted for it.