Melee Hit Chance

Melee Hit Chance is a stat: Chance to hit a target in melee. The target can still dodge even if we would've hit. Its minimum allowed value is 0%. Its default value is 0%.

Calculation

Base score

The base score starts at 0 and is affected by the following things:

• Melee skill: +1 per level. For pawns without skills (e.g. animals): +4
• Sight: 12x importance, no allowed defect. 150% limit
  • offset = 12 x ((IF sight < 150% THEN sight ELSE 150%) - 100%) e.g. +6 at 150% sight.
• Manipulation: 12x importance, no allowed defect. 150% limit
  • offset = 12 x ((IF manipulation < 150% THEN manipulation ELSE 150%) - 100%) e.g. +3 at 125% manipulation.
• Brawler trait: +4
• Melee specialist role : +7
• Melee specialist's Beserk Trance : +8
• Leader's Combat Command : +3
• Mechlord suit : −0.5
• Mechlord helmet : −0.5

Post-processing curve

The melee hit chance is then calculated with the following post-processing curve. As you can see increasing the base score has diminishing returns.

Base score to Melee hit chance

External offset

The combat in darkness precept offsets the melee hit chance based on the light level of the targeted pawn (not the attacking pawn!) by −10 (lit) to +10 (dark)^{[Details needed]}. Other than that the light level has no effect on the melee hit chance.

Examples

Melee skill and brawlers

Assuming no other offsets to the base score, the melee skill and the brawler trait results in the following melee hit chance:

Melee hit chance
Skill Level	Standard	Brawler	Skill Level	Standard	Brawler
0	50%	62%	-	-	-
1	53%	65%	11	81%	85%
2	56%	68%	12	82%	86%
3	59%	59%	13	83%	87%
4	62%	74%	14	84%	88%
5	65%	77%	15	85%	89%
6	68%	80%	16	86%	90%
7	71%	81%	17	87%	90.3%
8	74%	82%	18	88%	90.6%
9	77%	83%	19	89%	90.9%
10	80%	84%	20	90%	91.2%

Detailed post-processing curve

Base score	Post-Processed Melee Hit Chance	Increase From Previous Value
-20	5%	-
-19	5.5%	0.5%
-18	6%	0.5%
-17	6.5%	0.5%
-16	7%	0.5%
-15	7.5%	0.5%
-14	8%	0.5%
-13	8.5%	0.5%
-12	9%	0.5%
-11	9.5%	0.5%
-10	10%	0.5%
-9	14%	4%
-8	18%	4%
-7	22%	4%
-6	26%	4%
-5	30%	4%
-4	34%	4%
-3	38%	4%
-2	42%	4%
-1	46%	4%
0	50%	4%
1	53%	3%
2	56%	3%
3	59%	3%
4	62%	3%
5	65%	3%
6	68%	3%
7	71%	3%
8	74%	3%
9	77%	3%
10	80%	3%
11	81%	1%
12	82%	1%
13	83%	1%
14	84%	1%
15	85%	1%
16	86%	1%
17	87%	1%
18	88%	1%
19	89%	1%
20	90%	1%
21	90.3%	0.3%
22	90.6%	0.3%
23	90.9%	0.3%
24	91.2%	0.3%
25	91.5%	0.3%
26	91.8%	0.3%
27	92.1%	0.3%
28	92.4%	0.3%
29	92.7%	0.3%
30	93%	0.3%
31	93.3%	0.3%
32	93.6%	0.3%
33	93.9%	0.3%
34	94.2%	0.3%
35	94.5%	0.3%
36	94.8%	0.3%
37	95.1%	0.3%
38	95.4%	0.3%
39	95.7%	0.3%
40	96%	0.3%
41	96.1%	0.1%
42	96.2%	0.1%
43	96.3%	0.1%
44	96.4%	0.1%
45	96.5%	0.1%
46	96.6%	0.1%
47	96.7%	0.1%
48	96.8%	0.1%
49	96.9%	0.1%
50	97%	0.1%
51	97.1%	0.1%
52	97.2%	0.1%
53	97.3%	0.1%
54	97.4%	0.1%
55	97.5%	0.1%
56	97.6%	0.1%
57	97.7%	0.1%
58	97.8%	0.1%
59	97.9%	0.1%
60	98%	0.1%

Version history

• 0.17.1546 - Removed post-process curve from melee hit chance so it uses the simple level-by-level tuning. It’ll be much harder to hit things now at low melee skills. Note: Default hit chance is 0.6 for pawns without skills. This equals the chance of a pawn with melee skill 6. (This has been reverted again at some point.)

References

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Stats

Capacities

Pain • Consciousness • Moving • Manipulation • Talking • Eating • Sight • Hearing • Breathing • Blood Filtration  • Blood Pumping • Digestion

Basics | Important

Market Value • Market Value Ignoring Hitpoints • Honor Value

Non Pawn Important

Nutrition • Medical Potency • Medical Tend Quality Maximum • Max Hit Points

Basics

Mass • Flammability • Psychic Sensitivity Factor • Psychic Sensitivity Offset • Neural Heat Limit Offset • Neural Heat Recovery Rate Offset • Slave Suppression Offset • Terror (Source) • Max Install Count

Pawn

Recreation Fall Rate • Sleep Fall Rate • Eating Speed • Foraged Food Amount • Minimum Handling Skill • Mental Break Threshold • Immunity Gain Speed • Pain Shock Threshold • Lifespan Factor • Minimum Comfortable Temperature • Maximum Comfortable Temperature • Injury Healing Factor • Caravan Riding Speed • Carrying Capacity • Filth Rate • Crawl Speed • Move Speed • Max Nutrition • Rest Rate Multiplier • Toxic Environment Resistance • Toxic Resistance • Animals Learning Factor • Global Learning Factor • Neural Heat Limit • Psychic Sensitivity • Leather Amount • Meat Amount • Neural Heat Recovery Rate • Meditation Psyfocus Gain • Neural Heat Gain (Factor) • Ideoligion Spread Chance • Global Certainty Loss Factor • Terror • Raw Nutrition Multiplier • Learning Rate Factor • Cancer Rate Factor • Fertility • Hemogen Gain Multiplier

Non Pawn

Construction Speed (Material Factor) • Deterioration Rate • Sell Price Multiplier • Beauty • Outdoor Beauty • Cleanliness • Comfort • Work To Make • Food Poison Chance (Food Stat) • Shooting Accuracy (Turrets) • Style Dominance

Mechanoid

EMP Resistance • Bandwidth Cost • Energy Usage Multiplier • Wastepacks Per Recharge • Control Taking Time • Repair Energy Cost

Meditation

Meditation Psyfocus Bonus • Meditation Plant Growth Offset

Terrain

Cleaning Time Multiplier • Filth Multiplier

Apparel

Armor - Material Effect Multiplier • Insulation - Cold - Material Effect Multiplier • Insulation - Heat - Material Effect Multiplier • Equip Delay • Pack Radius • Shield Recharge Rate • Shield Max Energy • Insulation - Heat • Insulation - Cold • Armor - Heat • Armor - Blunt • Armor - Sharp • Jump Range

Weapon (Ranged)

Ranged Damage Multiplier • Ranged Cooldown • Accuracy (Long) • Accuracy (Medium) • Accuracy (Short) • Accuracy (Close)

Weapon (Melee)

Melee Damage Multiplier • Melee Weapon Average Armor Penetration • Melee Damage Per Second

Building

Research Speed Factor • Max Power Output • Medical Tend Quality Offset • Work Speed Factor • Work Efficiency Factor • Work To Build • Door Opening Speed • Rest Effectiveness • Immunity Gain Speed Factor • Recreation Power • Surgery Success Chance Factor • Reading Bonus • Trap Spring Chance • Trap Melee Damage • Biosculpter Pod Speed Factor • Assembly Speed Factor • Baby Play Power • Birth Quality Offset • Genetic Complexity Increase

Ability

Detection Chance • Goodwill Impact • Effect Radius • Duration • Range • Psyfocus Cost • Neural Heat Gain • Casting Time • Psylink Level

Stuff Stat Factors (Multipliers when made of this)

Melee Cooldown • Sharp Damage • Blunt Damage • Insulation - Heat (Material Factor) • Insulation - Cold (Material Factor) • Armor - Heat (Material Factor) • Armor - Blunt (Material Factor) • Armor - Sharp (Material Factor)

Mechanitor

Mech Bandwidth • Mech Control Groups • Mech Gestation Speed • Mech Remote Repair Distance • Mech Remote Shield Distance • Mech Remote Shield Energy • Mech Repair Speed • Subcore Encoding Speed • Mech Work Speed Offset

Pawn | Combat

Stagger Time Multiplier • Ranged Cooldown Multiplier • Aiming Time • Pawn Trap Spring Chance • Incoming Damage Multiplier • Accuracy Factor (Long) • Accuracy Factor (Medium) • Accuracy Factor (Short) • Accuracy Factor (Close) • Shooting Accuracy (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Dark • Outdoors Lit ) • Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier • Melee Armor Penetration • Melee Dodge Chance (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Night • Outdoors Day ) • Melee Hit Chance (Indoors Dark • Indoors Lit • Outdoors Dark • Outdoors Lit ) • Melee DPS • Melee Damage Factor • Melee Cooldown • Melee Door Damage Factor • Shooting Accuracy Multiplier (Child)

Social

Bond Chance Factor • Train Animal Chance • Tame Animal Chance • Arrest Success Chance • Beauty (Pawn) • Social Impact • Drug Sell Price Improvement • Trade Price Improvement • Negotiation Ability • Suppression Power • Conversion Power • Slave Suppression Fall Rate • Animal Products Price Improvement

Misc

Biosculpter Occupant Speed • Growth Vat Occupant Speed

Work

Cleaning Speed Multiplier • Butchery Speed • Mechanoid Shredding Speed • Hunting Stealth • Research Speed • Smelting Speed • Smoothing Speed • Animal Gather Speed • Animal Gather Yield • Drug Cooking Speed • Drug Synthesis Speed • Butchery Efficiency • Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency • Cooking Speed • Food Poison Chance • Plant Work Speed • Plant Harvest Yield • Drug Crop Harvest Yield • Reading Speed • Repair Success Chance • Construct Success Chance • Construction Speed • Medical Tend Speed • Medical Tend Quality • Medical Operation Speed • Medical Surgery Success Chance • Mining Speed • Deep Drilling Speed • Mining Yield • General Labor Speed • Global Work Speed • Hacking Speed • Pruning Speed • Activity Suppression Speed • Study Efficiency • Entity Study Rate

Psychic Ritual

Psychic Ritual Quality • Psychic Ritual Quality Offset

Containment

Cold Containment Bonus • Containment Strength • Minimum Containment Strength

Hidden

Bed Hunger Rate Multiplier