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Also, I don't know if NV turned on help to detect stealthied targets faster in dark caves, wanted to ask this long ago, like years.
What's frustrating about them is that even at level ~18, with maxed dodge, Nimble and wearing Tabi boots I can't seem to dodge their initial sting, at all.Buff from Stealth Mode "When attacking in melee from stealth, target's dodge rating will be ignored if it hasn't detected you yet".What's worse, on my other character with 12 PER I don't even begin to spot them (not even the non-targetable shadow outline) before I get attacked.Detection Googles really helps here.
I'm extremely inexperienced with both psi and unarmed melee (specifically AP cutoff points) so I'd love some feedback -My only feedback is that I honestly don't believe a psi-heavy build without Premeditation is correct. There is no feat that's as valuable to a psi user as Premeditation. It's a free action, and it also extends the range of most abilities and halves their psi cost. You'd only need 1 more point in Int to open it up, and it's enormously powerful. I would trade out Pack Rathound in an instant for Premeditation. The QoL of greater carrying capacity won't match the benefits of Premeditation, and your AoE mind abilities like LoC+Enrage or LoC+Bilocation are expensive enough that it's a huge help to get them for half cost, especially since you're not going to have Meditation or Neurology to give you a slightly deeper pool of psi. Plus if you eventually find yourself making use of TK Proxy + (TK Punch and/or Implosion), you're going to be burning through an awful lot of psi.
Get Premeditation.
Of course, you may wish to pump Con instead, that's would be even better perhaps, but I always liked glass cannon archtypes.
Hilf posted some results from an accuracy test he did on the energy/chem pistol thread (http://underrail.com/forums/index.php?topic=2008.15):Quote6 perception, 125(146) guns = 78% chance to hit
11 perception, 125(199) guns = 79% chance to hit
My target was Plasma Sentry. I did another test, same setup but with flare and result was again 1% point.
As I said in that thread, these results seem a bit strange, considering the effective skill difference is quite significant at 53 points. And because of that, I did a quick test of my own:
12 PER, 125 (210) Guns skill, Scoped Compensated 7.62 Hornet, character Focused, target is Praetorian Sniper right next to a light source, 13 tile/max sight distance = 66% chance to hit with normal attack, 33% with burst
Rapid Compensated 7.62 Jaguar, same conditions except distance is 9 tiles and less = 89% chance to hit at all distances with normal attack, burst precision increases as the distance decreases
15 PER, 125 (241) Guns skill, with the Hornet = 78% chance to hit with normal attack, 39% with burst
Jaguar = 90% chance to hit at all distances with normal attack, burst precision increases as the distance decreases
Assault Rifles (and very likely Crossbows as well, considering they have the same max range and only one tile less optimal range) seem to benefit considerably at maximum distance, but as soon as you move 2 or 3 tiles closer, chance to hit jumps to 95%, with both Perception values. Burst CTH is higher with 15 PER at all distances, although it caps at 92% with both 12 and 15 PER, the latter reaching it a tile or so sooner. Same thing with the Jaguar, although precision cap is lower than the Hornet's 92%. The Jaguar's normal attack is the weird one: it kinda seems to imply that the less range a weapon has, the less it benefits from extreme skill values.
I guess the builds that really want to max Perception for the accuracy gain are mainly burst-focused Riflemen, and crossbow users to a considerably lesser degree due to lacking burst fire. I'm fairly sure Sniper Rifles benefit even less, since they're always in optimal range.
