Note to all of you who have been going around at 'heavy, but manageable' or higher encumbrance and fighting.
In reviewing how encumbrance affects fighting, we realized that it provided a practically non-existent modifier to combat. This is going to change with our next push.
Being encumbered while fighting will now have a DRASTIC impedance on combat ability. On the same order as being attacked by multiple enemies.
This is fair warning (and a similar message will be posted on the MOTD) that if you are running around encumbered, you will be at very poor odds of winning a fight.