Got a bolter with base stats 375, amazing. Rolled with +crit chance, +crit damage, and surgigal blessing that increases crit while aiming.
Bolter can’t crit.
This is obnoxious as f#ck design. Why not just roll the gun with empty trait slots instead then at least new players would not live under the illusion that they have an amazing bolter on their hand and not a trash which has “greyed out” perks and blessings.
Make of that what you will, thats from a dev, its a bit vague though.
Thanks, went back to test again and I indeed got few crits, but it still feels like at least the Surgical blessing is not working since I managed to get only couple of crits out of hundreds of shots fired. Would be nice if there was a visual indicator, a blessing icon + x-stacks number to let us know if the blessing is active, not sure if I would trust even that at this point.
Yeah, thats what seemed to be the problem that a lot of the other players who were posting in that thread ran into, not enough critical hits in comparison to the amount of critical% they were stacking.
Hi! Dev here. I apologize for the frustrations this cause. Bolters can crit. Rest assured that’s the case.
To explain a bit more. We have a bug currently in the Psykanum that the color of the damage number that pops up is incorrect some times even if the attack crited. So you crit you will give higher damage, but the color of the damage number is still white.
This is the case for all bolter hits that hits more the 5m away from the enemy. So beyond 5 meters you will not get a yellow text but you will do more damage when you crit.
Why 5 meters? After 5 meters bolters shots gets “armed” and if they then hit they will cause a secondary explosion that will stagger the hit target (even more) and stagger enemies around it also. This secondary explosion does not crit and the damage number system hence think that the whole attacks (primary + secondary) is not a crit and will display a white text.
This have been internally fixed and will go out with next patch.
I will make an extra check to see that the perks and blessing all work correctly for the bolter also just to be sure.
Thanks for clarifying! sounds of racking a Bolter “Now i can use it again!”
Thanks for the explanation really appreciated. About the blessings, would it be possible in any reality that we could see the active blessings on our hud? Like Surgical and it’s stacks? And really any blessing that activates during combat, would be great if we could see if it’s active and for how long.
Edit; Btw you guys been getting a lot of punches from the community since launch so I’ll just add sorry for the harsh words on the original post, I was just being “a passionate gamer” about your game 
Stand strong and keep the patches coming and I’ll be sure to throw some aquilas around 