09-07-2014, 02:39 PM
Cres was using the average damage on his little graph, not all the possibilities. Obviously, if it was all the possibilites the graph would range everywhere, but when you take the average damage it should be a lot smoother curve. As your sample increases, the sample mean should be close to the real mean. The outliers (prox damage + a lot of shrap damage) don't occur very often in the whole picture of a game. It is probably <1% that someone actually gets proxed and then takes 600+ damage due to shrap. Actually, it is probably more like .01% if you really take every bomb explosion into effect. There hasn't been any data collected on this (that I know of), but from personal experience this doesn't happen very often to me or to what I've seen. Thus the conclusion is being a smoother graph because those outliers shouldn't affect the average damage over a larger sample when the high majority of the bombs do do a semi stable damage (lag takes play here as well to add more inconsistancy).