Counting swings and stabs
I found an thread on the MapleLegends forums where the author was curious about the probability of attack animations.
It is possible to programmatically count the number of swings and stabs of attacks from video recordings, without resorting to packet sniffing or reversing game assets. I tested this with a pair of Sky Skis using booster for speed. The data suggests that the stab:swing ratio is 2:3.
Find the source here.
Summary of all trials
| name | stab | swing | total | stab_pct | swing_pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | 45 | 56 | 101 | 0.446 | 0.554 |
| 01 | 37 | 66 | 103 | 0.359 | 0.641 |
| 02 | 34 | 68 | 102 | 0.333 | 0.667 |
| 03 | 50 | 52 | 102 | 0.49 | 0.51 |
| 04 | 48 | 53 | 101 | 0.475 | 0.525 |
| 05 | 42 | 60 | 102 | 0.412 | 0.588 |
| 06 | 33 | 68 | 101 | 0.327 | 0.673 |
| 07 | 35 | 67 | 102 | 0.343 | 0.657 |
| 08 | 35 | 66 | 101 | 0.347 | 0.653 |
| 09 | 47 | 55 | 102 | 0.461 | 0.539 |
| total | 406 | 611 | 1017 | 0.399 | 0.601 |
Analysis for trial data
Click on the video to begin. Clicking on the plot or table will bring the video to that frame. Classification confidence is calculated by a Ridge classifier trained on template matching intensities over a window of 4 frames.