After using it in a couple games I actually disagree with this. The radius is now significant, its like letting off a grenade. Im about to try it with power surge and see how that fares.
I do think they should shorten the cooldown to something like 6 seconds. 12 is a bit much but spamming it would be overkill so it does need a cooldown for sure.
Will report back later.
Is this game ever going to get actual new content, such as new factions, or are we going to continue reshuffles with numbers until the end of time?
Nothing in this update is interesting in the least, most of all, the changes to autoguns and chain weapons which basically do nothing at all to fix the core issues with them.
Nope, power surge still sucks afaict. The 25% increase doesnt feel at all like it works and neither does any secondary explosion.
@FatsharkQuickpaw would it be possible to ask about power surge and maybe get someone to look at it?
Im not sure its even working at all and if it is, then maybe the 25% is not enough and maybe the secondary explosion on armoured enemies actually needs to feel like a second hit. It really feels like its doing nothing at all in-game.
Im going to try testing it in the psykhanium but I suck at that kind of stuff.
edit: after some testing the 25% does work but honestly isnt worth it. It should be 50%. I literally cannot tell what that secondary shockwave does, I dont see it, I dont feel it, there is no secondary shockwave on armoured.
Run Big Boom instead. Itâs a substantial boost to the stagger zone and makes it more possible to include 2 elites in the center blast radius if they are doing their usual crowding your face.
Yes and no!
The flagged one was definitely about Solo mode, but apparently calling Fatshark out on their lies âoffensiveâ to some people. /shrug
The deleted comment was because I canât read :D. One of the Zealot talents is â2.5% toughness/s with a nearby enemy, +1% more for each additional enemy up to 7.5%. Monstrosities count as 5 enemies.â and I read it as â2.5% per nearby enemyâ and was like âwhy the hell are monstrosities counting for 5 enemies when you only need 3 to cap the talent?â then hit âreplyâ, reread my comment and went âDâoh!â as I realized I canât read.
I removed the only thing that could have been considered offensive, and honestly it was like 4th grade level of âoffensiveâ.
Esit: Apparently someone still thinks itâs âoffensiveâ to call out Fatshark about their lies. To borrow a meme from @CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N and @Ragnarok101
I think it feels good for light spam now. More like the bully club. But that activation feels so clumsy and weak imo. Thammer feels more powerful when activated I swear and that has no cool down.
Iâve only tried it in auric and havoc 30+ but the knock back has seemed like a very small radius to me.
Looks like a ton of great changes here. Thanks!
@FatsharkQuickpaw Havenât had the opportunity to play yet but did Brain Burst / Brain Rapture for Psyker get buffed to compensate for the increased health pools of enemies? It was already kinda bad to use before, with some elites requiring several uses to kill on Damnation+.
After using it more I must say itâs growing on me but for the 12 sec cool down I do think it needs to be a bit beefier when activated. Itâs quite a clumsy activation tooâŚsometimes doesnât activate when button is pressed. Or cool down drastically reduce.
Iâd prefer a super damage and long cool down but either would be better than current imo
Power Maulâs activation is too slow for a one-time impactful hit every 12 seconds. During the activation the situation can change enough that itâs no longer needed. Why not just make it like the Arbites Power Maul, so that hitting Special does the actual attack?
Itâs also kinda unclear when the cooldown is over. I know thereâs a visual and a sound cue, but itâs not always easy to notice when your weapon model is swinging wildly and combat noises drown out the sound.
The slide-attack on the Power Maul pretty much always ruins my intentions to slide towards a key target and use L1 > L2 strikedowns. And it doesnât flow well during combat to have a Heavy strikedown hidden behind Light strikedowns or a push, since windows of opportunity to strike key targets are small, and you usually want to start an engagement with a hard-hitting strikedown, not two lights followed by an overkill heavy.
Yeah I was just coming back to say as much actually. The activation is SOOOOO slow. It makes hitting anyone still staggered a real challenge. And obviously stagger is where you want to hit with it.
I absolutely advocate this. This is how it should work. Currently the vetâs grenades blow everything to smithereens before youâve managed to get a swing in. Then youâre left with a charged Paul with nothing to hit - which means it times out (weirdly way faster than 12 seconds) then you have to wait 12 seconds to charge it again. Rinse and repeat.
Maybe a nice mechanical ping when itâs ready again would be good too.
Nice! Im gonna try Big Boom and power surge together just for a laugh to see how that affects the radius but due to the lack of any secondary shock its still not something I will be taking. Come to think of it, my build I use Paul on might already have Big Boom so Power Surge might just be plain useless no matter what. Edit: It didnt, gonna try it now!
Edit2: Na, Power Surge is seriously pish. Big boom is a better option overall because it affects your other explosions too. I guess if you use rock and a non aoe ranged weapon and want a tiny increase to Paul but without the secondary shock seeming to do anything, Im thinking Power Surge is pretty much useless.
Agreed. I think the best thing is reduce the cooldown.
The traitor captainâs shield insta-down bug is still present.
Anyone else experiencing weird things when you try to change weapon perks and blessings?
In my case: changing a blessing and then getting a pop-up akin to âunable to perform operationâ but the UI telling me that it both did and didnât work. After restarting the game, the changes are shown correctly.
Maybe I should add, this has happend when changing stuff on a currently equipped weapon.
Yeah Iâve had the entire hadron menu go totally blank and other weird stuff as you describe. Seems someone has let a gremlin into the UI this update.
Can we please get something to do with the âresourcesâ:
New weapon maxed out, commissary is bought out⌠And Melk has been maxed out now for close to a yearâŚ
Out of curiosity how much playtime do you have? Do you play all the classes?
I ask because I have ~820 hours in the game and rarely have more than 250k is dockets and about 25k plasteel and diamantine.
