archer9234 said:
People want proper realism. Not hampered gameplay. Why can't Link run for a full minute. Like a real person. Either do realism right. Or don't bother. |
Different people can sprint for different lengths. Not everyone has the same amount of stamina. Link's increases with training, just like a real person's would.
I doubt you can sprint for a full minute at your full speed by the way. That is much harder to do than you think, as a minute is much longer than you think. Plus an ingame minute is a second in our time. There is a balance between full realisism and game logic to be had here. Having only one or the other would make the game bad.
For how much time can a normal sprint at full speed before running out of breath?
"It depends on what you mean by “running out of breath.”
An elite sprinter can only run 6 to 8 seconds at maximum effort before starting to slow down. In a 100 meter race, the runners are already slowing down before the finish because it is impossible to maintain maximum effort that long. Full, maximum speed only occurs for a couple seconds, after the runner has accelerated to as fast as they can go, and before fatigue causes them to start to slow.
While a 400 meter race is considered a “sprint” it is not and cannot be run a full speed. Even Olympic 400m runners pace it so they run at less than maximum speed the entire race.
If you define “out of breath” in physiological terms, it get more complicated. In simple terms, aerobic running is done at a pace slow enough that you are able to bring in enough oxygen to maintain that speed - although you will experience fatigue and eventually need to slow for other reasons. Anaerobic running is done at a speed fast enough that you burn more oxygen than you can bring in. How quickly you run out of oxygen is dependent on how much faster you are running than the speed where you can bring in enough oxygen to replace what you use. A full explanation of what really happens physiologically is beyond what I can cover here, but if you really want to know look up alactic metabolism and lactate metabolism. But in short, simple terms, when “sprinting at full speed” as you say, even elite athletes literally are partially suffocating within the first 10 seconds.
When not running “at full speed” in a distance race (say a local 5K) runners will still “run out of breath” near the end of the race if they have paced it correctly. When racing for time even a long distance runner will reach maximum effort at the finish, and have very labored breathing."
