Because chain weapon special activation attacks technically strike the enemy about four times, the +25% damage bonus from Chastise the Wicked is not effective with them. Only the first connecting instance of damage receives the bonus. I don’t report this as a bug because it is logically consistent in its way but this cannot be intended gameplay - especially not where all damage instances are properly made critical hits as one would expect.
The icon for Chastise the Wicked shows an Eviscerator chainsword. It is very silly that the buff does not cooperate as one would think with chain weapon rip and tear attacks. Please change it so that the +25% damage bonus applies to all hits of any given chain weapon activated attack.
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I thought the +25% was just poor wording for the crit that it guarantees?
I felt like it was kind of weak. That makes sense. I strongly support this changing to apply to the full special latch attack.
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You should get a guaranteed crit and additional bonus damage for the attack.
Since bonus dmg for crits differs even for the same weapon hitting the same enemy with the same attack, based on you hitting the head or not, writing down a bonus dmg % as representation for the guaranteed crit would make no sense.
However, it is fatshark 
they often have descriptions that are a bit wonky.
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Yeah its really stupid but you can use chastise mid sawing to actually apply that boost to the end hit. Not that your idea isn’t way better its just something to keep in mind that it is not actually unobtainable at the minute if you do want to use chain weapons. I use Chainsword a lot because it works great with the crit loadout and must be constantly aware of when I press F.
I tested this, there is no +25% damage. It’s just a guaranteed crit and forced 100% penetration (even on attacks with >100% penetration) for the first tick of damage. In the case of the Eviscerator, the forced penetration getting eaten on the first tick is good for Flak, and bad for Carapace. The rest of the damage types are unaffected because they’re all 100% exactly.
I just put on Rising Conviction and it seems that the bonus damage from that applies twice multiplicatively when chastising after the first tick.
wtf…
Tested again on a Combat Knife to see if there is +25% damage, yes there is. But none of the divisions I did while testing Eviscerator gave 1.25.
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You have to wait just after the sawing animation begins, and then press F. The increased damage will stay for the whole shredding. You even have time to do another attack or even shredding that will 100% crit because it doesn’t register the 1st shred as a “melee attack” and thus doesn’t end the 4 seconds ult
PS: I don’t have +25% carapace on this sword
Edit: it’s a damnation crusher!
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