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If you can't use Adrenaline with 3 Constitution than you probably can't use the even harsher Vitality Powder. Regardless, I just threw out a random build. There are plenty of other less optimized builds that need every statpoint if they want to deal enough damage to make do in Dominating.Yeah but think of how many builds there are that are stat hungry as is and barely viable for dominating without using any cheese tactics. Think of glass cannon Hammer Builds that rely on Adrenaline to properly use Balor's Hammer in the earlier levels or even more niche builds that try to combine two less meta concepts.Balor’s hammer builds are a bad example to use, since there are so many ways to boost str (vit powder, regalia, food, ect) that you need a max of 15 base str to use effectively. Right now Underrail heavily rewards killing enemies as fast as possible, so most people either run 3 con or 9 con for SI. Styg has already talked about nerfing crits in infusion, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the glass cannon play style also gets nerfed. Con doesn’t effect skills or damage most of the time, so adding in con requirements for certain consumables gives a real downside for conlets.
As someone who has experimented a lot with making purposefully sub optimal builds that have a very specific style of play or fill some sort of arbitrary role playing purpose decided before the play through, it's already difficult to make certain things work with other things, and adding further restrictions will only make creative build crafting harder.
Instead of slapping on more restrictions to make things interesting, why not slap on some further benefits. If you're worried about those benefits making the game easier, try to make niche concepts work on Dominating.
A reason to have a con score between 3 and 9: you can have 1 active drug status (jumping bean, adrenaline, morphine, etc) for each point of con, more than that and you suffer a debuff of some sort (sick, over-medicated, etc) or maybe you just can't take more drugsI like the sentiment behind making Constitution a stat with more nuance than just 9 or 3 but I don't think too much needs to be done outside of lengthening debuffs for low con people and perhaps making buffs last longer at like 7 constitution to incentivize some build hybridization. If you give the benefit at 7 Con, then there are multiple tank feats already (Juggernaut, Conditioning, Fast Metabolism, Stoicism) to make that Con checkpoint make sense. If you make the debuffs too harsh for low Con people I think that'll fuck up some of the more suboptimal builds and will pigeon hole people into using certain builds.
if you want to be harsh, make it 1 status per 2 points of con
Also, you could increase benefical drug durations for higher con characters and increase drug cool-downs for lower con characters (and lengthen debuffs, like adrenaline fatigue).
A big change that would help balance the game (and give it much more tactical depth) is an overwatch/readied-actions system. It would certainly help close the gap between fast builds and tanky builds.It sounds like a nice idea and gives the game tactical depth but I don't see how this would work with how the engine currently is. IK Infusion is getting a major engine overhaul but I feel like this kind of brings the game closer towards a XCOM type game versus a turn based RPG. I can see it really slowing some things done and turning a lot of encounters into major slogs. as well as just changing the overall feel of the game.
