TOPIC: Blunder weapon misfires and Virtual TD

Hello! I love the new Blunder weapons, and have gone all-in with a Deadshot build I'm dying to try out in VTD. One question I can't find the answer to though is: how are misfires calculated in the virtual game? Is it a certain die range (1-4), a Nat 1, or something else?

I asked Cranston, programmer of the Android and iOS apps, about this and he gave me permission to re-post this reply:
The apps do handle Blunder Weapons. When a backfire occurs, several things happen. A message is listed on the screen. The damage is set to 0, so the dice roller is set as a hit with 0 damage, and I send ‘backfire’ as the message. I am not sure if there is a graphic for that or not. I thought there was, but I am not sure. There are a few other ranged weapons that have a chance for backfire, but they all are covered the same way.

Unless you have a way to mitigate misfire damage, you'll need to manually subtract 2 HP when you see the "misfire" message.

Awesome--thanks! You don't happen to know what the frequency in-app is, do you? I'm going to assume some percentage, to emulate what's on the token edges.

Ed Matuskey wrote: You don't happen to know what the frequency in-app is, do you?

Some guy named Kenneth once told me it was 7.38 gigahertz.

I imagine it's very true to what the damage wheel would indicate, but I'm not the programmer so I don't know for certain. However, there's a thread specifically for the True Dungeon Character Generators apps. I'd say that would be a great question to post in that thread.

Druegar wrote: I am not sure if there is a graphic for that or not.

There is:

Ed Matuskey wrote: Awesome--thanks! You don't happen to know what the frequency in-app is, do you? I'm going to assume some percentage, to emulate what's on the token edges.

It's based on the damage wheel on whatever weapon you are using. If there are 6 spots and one is a bomb, that's a 1 in 6 chance. There are a couple that have 2 bombs, if 8 spots and 2 are bombs, that is 2 out of 8 or 25% chance.

Perfect, thank you! And yikes, that means my character has a 1-in-4 chance of a backfire in VTD--but then again, you don't wield one of these beauties if you want to play it safe.