Hey everyone. In case anyone missed it, a new major update has just dropped. Looking forward to seeing what build people make with the rocket launcher, but I mostly want to focus on the feat changes and how they affect our builds.
"Changed the crafting requirement base from fixed 80% of component quality to ranging from 77% to 112% component quality, scaling with the quality itself (curving up); Tweaked the specific modifiers for various components."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this means that we'll need to put far more points into our crafting skills to get the highest tier equipment. With the new intelligence feats I'd imagine that crafting great equipment will be extremely costly for low int builds now.
I don't know much about a lot of high DEX builds, but I'm pretty sure this tweak is a big deal: "Minimal weapon usage action point cost changed to 5 (up from 4)"
It looks like there's been a lot of changes to the feats we use for melee builds. Expose Weakness, Fancy Footwork, and Cheap Shots have all been given big nerfs. Stasis has also been nerfed (finally.) Looks like my idea of using psi or guns to support melee builds might become much more viable. There'll be a ton to experiment with now that Exothermic Aura can help resist some CC and Psychokinesis is getting buffs.
This might also interesting for melee builds: "High-Technicalities now also increases damage from energy edge and electroshock modules".
Contaminated, and therefore Toxic Gas Grenade, has been nerfed to require 20 stack instead of 10 to reach 100% increased damage taken.
Other tweaks that might interest you:
"Reduced damage of grenade launchers across the board by about 20%"
"Forcefield now has resistances that scale with skill"
"Psychosomatic Predation - killing the target now also resets the cooldown"
"Skill-based damage bonus for light weapons (those that have their AP cost reduced by Dexterity, which are: pistols, SMGs, unarmed, fist weapons, and knives) changed from the standard 0.7% per skill to 0.5% per skill"
Hopefully everyone's handling the nerfs well. Personally I'm happy that hard mode is has more of a reason to exist and dominating might actually feel hard again.
