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you cant intimidate or be intimidated by yells someone who scarier/less scary than youSome way of decreasing the impact of Yell would be good, I was thinking Resolve, but Resolve is also a stat almost nobody cares about because only Will and your level increase it, and Will is nearly only ever used for psi builds (the other few times are very specific builds making use of Ripper, Stoicism or Fight Response) that aren't affected by Yell. I kinda wish Yell also messed with psi casting, something like worsening concentration and thus weakening the resulting spell, with a lesser Intimidation impact than on regular weapon usage.
Making a veteran feat that makes Deadly Snares work with nets would be nice, veteran feats are seriously underused and most are meh despite being end-game featschange escape artist dex requirement to agilityDeadly snares on nets might be a bit too overpowered, since then it’s just 10 ap for 100% crit chance for 1-2 turns against a single target every couple of turns. Deadly snares is balanced right now since you can use quick tinkering to set traps on demand.
hypertoxicity now applies hyperimmune with poisons
spikes and blades on gear give intimidation bonus
armor sloping removes ap from spikes and blades
spikes and blades work against melee attackers
possibility to gain your name in arena in the first beast fight wearing certain armor
quick pockets give you once per round ability to equip weapon or utility for free
new native enemy:skaerdar crossbowman, he shoots serrated bolts and have vile weaponry, make tungsten tanks with regen vest suffer
deadly snares procs on net since it literally snare
Also, do you mean poisons apply hypoallergenic with hypertoxicity?
Contraction is just too good, even with it's occasional drawback; I made a thread a long time ago about how I think it should be a feat that lets you cast dilation on yourself for the opposite effect and requires 7 will; if not that then do something more than it's current drawback at least (perhaps it's drawback always occurs, but is weaker with higher skill).I really just wish there was a better reason to increase TM other than to reduce the chance for a drawback. I support the idea of having it always give a drawback, but I also think the effects it gives should increase with TM, starting at 10AP and ending at 25AP at like, 300 effective TM, and instead of a feat that increases the action points granted it's a feat that drastically reduces the drawback and requires Will/Intelligence. It would tie really well into the "to manipulate time, one has to let time manipulate it" thematic, because you'll need a very big investment of points to make it good, and when you do make it good it becomes very strong.
Kevlar (as it is) and antithermic should have their armor penalties switched. Antithermic is VERY good for just +5% assuming you aren't a stealth build or aren't currently concerned with stealth, whereas kevlar is awful on leather armor and decent on tacvests, being "good" only on very heavy tacvests. This also kinda makes blast more appealing since if you're going 10% for heat protection you might instead go 15% for explosion protection in general.It doesn't make any sense, Kevlar is meant to be a very heavy material while the Antithermic one is mostly rather thin sheets of heat-blocking material. Explosion resistance is very good for avoiding one-shots, but it gets underused because both Evasion and shields can avoid/block the bulk of the damage.
I think item qualities should be lowered across the board by about a third, at all stages of the game. q160 should be max-tier end-game quality.I think the quality system used is shoddy, I'd rather have a tier system going from 1 to 10-20, and maybe extremely rare tier (max + 1) components with extra effects, found usually through bosses but also sometimes through other means like deconstructing high-end weapons, rather than the current RNG-heavy system. Hell, one of the big reasons I heard people use Cheat Engine for is so that they can refresh the merchants until they sell max-quality components.
Tying in to that suggestion: what if grenades could be bounced off walls/around corners? perhaps with a fuse delay? This would help deal with overwatching enemies and give characters some more area denial options (at least against intelligent enemies), and of course it would be used against the player as well. It would also give you a way of "nerfing" grenades by making it much harder to bounce/time grenades with lower throwing skill, in addition to general placement accuracy. As it stands, you throw grenades at clumped enemies almost like a mage fireball instead of something resembling their real-life use; irl you don't see a group of enemies in the open and throw a nade, you shoot them; grenades are mostly for enemies around corners or behind walls. Also, if you "cook" a grenade by activating it with the intention of throwing it on your next turn, but you get stunned or incap'd before then...The way grenades are implemented is very weird, they should be overhauled altogether. Yours is not a bad idea but I don't think it would be feasible if the current combat approach of "kill your enemies as fast as possible before they kill you" will still happen in the game, it would only help in the few scenarios where the enemy AI is going behind a corner after firing at you. If an overhaul is not going to happen, then I think the best solution to reconcile the two would be to have a new component to grenades that determines whether it's going to explode on impact (think contact fuzes) or if it's going to wait a turn or two before doing so, after all there is a Digital Timer in the game.
Nerf W2C: Have it do 90% base damage and only bypass 35%-50% of armor.The topic of armor-piercing bullets is iffy because it's already supposed to be rare, vendors sell them in bare quantities and you'll need to do a lot of crafting to craft enough ammo to last several encounters. I'd like to propose that the problem is instead the amount of mechanically-resistant enemies in the game and the lack of options in general other than the metaphorical silver bullet W2C, the melee Exposed Weakness, and overwhelming amounts of damage (or the few kinds of damage they are vulnerable to). W2C's value comes from how many resistant enemies there are (armored humans, bladelings, crabs, robots etc), usually the cases in which W2C is used is when the damage with conventional weaponry is so small that W2C is at least twice as damaging and at most dozens of times more damaging (in the case of DT). It highlights an issue of how abundant tough enemies become later in the game, and nerfing W2C just to try covering that isn't fun. I know there's probably a nerf already in the works but it's still something to consider. An enemy with 50% DR has effectively 2x the health in damage it takes to kill it, 75% DR has effectively 4x the health.
Have Tony show up at Ray's as an employee if the expedition is over and he/aegis survives.That would be dope
also perhaps a very rare +2 AP food that can only be found, never boughtUnless it's permanent then there's no point to it for just 2AP, if it's meant to be a limited find-only food it should be 10AP minimum
I didn't see many enemies with food active; I expected to see more natives with bison milk in particular. During invasions at least.It should be a DOMINATING feature, but I do worry about DOMINATING being even more difficult as is because it's already plenty of metagay where people try exploit everything they can get their grubby hands on, but I think Natives drinking Bison Milk would make a lot of sense.
On DOMINATING, hide the tags on special dialogue checks that let you know that option is a persuasion check or an intelligence check or whatever. (I showed some people these suggestions before posting; this is the only one that got any real flak)There's no useful point to this, I can see why it gets lots of flak. Sometimes you gotta ask yourself what such change is supposed to bring to the table, if it's supposed to be an "oh silly me, I thought this wasn't a skill check but it was and I messed up!" then what's fun about it?
Reduce the bonus from the Beast tattoo to 5%; people currently seem to recognize it as the "best" option for most builds and I agree. The next most common being the shadowlith fragment which I see as fine, especially considering how late it's requirement comes.I'd say go the other way around and buff every other tattoo instead, they're all borderline flavor text, even Coral's charms have more impact in the game than the tattoos, and you can switch the charms around freely too!
Reduce the AP-cost reduction of the doctor's pouch from 75% to 50%; the ability to take a bunch of drugs for 2 AP each is frankly broken. I have made great use of that on many of my builds.On one hand you got a point with how easy you can use drugs, on the other hand turning it into 5 AP costs instead of 2 will turn it into a relatively inferior option compared to nearly every other belt. If it really has to be nerfed I'd rather have it be rounded up instead of down so that it's 3AP instead of 2AP, or turn it into 60% cost reduction for 4AP drugs.
On silent isle, behind the perception check to get to the small island, there is a corpse with randomized leather armor. Sometimes it's mutated dog leather which is great for Depot A. Could it always be mutated dog?I support this.
