Started noticing something odd about the 2 hit beat down system in H3 so I went into customs to try it out. What I found was really odd, and it’s gonna be kind of hard to explain.
In customs, I signed in a guest, shot him twice with the BR, melee and he doesn’t die. Tried it again right after his shields regenerated, and it worked. But if you wait as little as 6 seconds, and try it again, I still can’t get the 2 shot beat down. Is there something about the invisible health I’m missing, or something to do with the settings?
Another thing I noticed, using the AR (takes 16 to kill) I drained the shields, let them regenerate and started shooting again, and it killed him in12-14 bullets? Has anyone else noticed these things?
thats kinda weird. Ive felt a lot of inconsistency with MCC H3
Answer: There is a health and a shield amount every spartan has (70 I believe). Each spartan regenerates full shield after a fight. Health takes a little time to regen (and is invisible).
I have both read and experienced this. Back in the early H3 MLG days (on 110% damage) people tried to BxR (haha). WHat happened was that a melee would do 77 damage each hit (so a player would take 70 shield damage and 7 health damage. The shield would quickly regen and they would try again… every 9 or 10 times the player would get killed by 1 beat down.
I’m not sure of the exact health regen system, but I know this is how H3 operates. That is why a full health spartan will win an AR fight against a spartan that recently (in last 15 seconds) was in a fight where they lost a lot of health and lived. I’m sure you have noticed this in matchmaking mulitplayer where either you or an enemy dies really fast to an AR, and other times you/an enemy will tank a bunch of ar bullets after the shield breaks.
This is also why you can die by 1 frag grenade sometimes… im sure you have experienced this as well. I think this is true whether normal H3 or 110 damage MLG rules are being used since grenades are strong enough to take a shield out and do health damage. I have been single grenade killed many times in MLG when I’m full shield shortly after I was in a BR fight in which i took some body shots when I was no shield (i lost health).
This is exactly why you are noticing what you did… and in a way it makes sense, though some argue that it would be nice to see a health bar so you could actually see how much health you have left and how long it takes to fully regen any lost health.