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Author: BlackDragon

May 10th 2010 at 2:58:55 PM

In the ''SuperSmashBros'' series of fighting-games, you can't 'kill' your opponents in the traditional sense. You can only win by knocking your enemy offscreen, or down a BottomlessPit. The more damaged you become, however, the easier you are to knock around... resultingly, once the damage-percentages rise towards the 300-mark, everybody bounces around like ping-pong balls at the slightest provocation...

Also, in ''CityOfHeroes'' (and ''CityOfVillains''), 'knockback' effects have been redesigned several times. They are necessary for those dramatic 'knock-you-through-a-building' superhero-fights, but also tend to be the biggest single problem for anyone whose powerset DOESN'T include 'Protection from Knockback', due to just how many enemies can do it. The overall effect has been turned up and down half a dozen times - I'm not sure where it stands right now. But it's always been the case that Giant Monsters are capable of knocking you halfway across the zone if you give 'em a reason to...