Also FYI just noticed, Empyric Shock doesn’t work on purge. Haven’t tried Channeled Force but bc of ES, worth assuming that one might not either.
Hey everyone! I was chasing it, and the fix for the specials activation for certain weapons should be fixed in Hotfix #51 aka 1.5.4. 
Thank you to everyone who dropped a comment here or on any past posts. o7
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Yay!
Would be nice if we could get some answers on what happened to the in game voice comms for the Xbox console.
Since the roll out of this new update, in game voice comms have not worked for console users. And has made it quite difficult for those to communicate with friends on PC or other console players.
There is a thread on the Technical Support forum about this issue.
-Can we please fix the combat axes having less attack range than the combat knife?
its a considerable distance.
-The bolt pistols surgical blessing is described as 10% per .3 seconds
while it is .2 seconds on the kickback
Surgical is actually one of the only ‘builds stacks’ talents for staling actions that actually tells you how fast the stacks build. This is a deliberate balance for a lot of weapons.
Headhunter autogun, bolter and Kickback all have 0.2s per stack surgical. Because they’re all slow enough as is (terrible ADS movement speed on headhunter auto, slow swap speed on bolter, one shot per reload and slow swap on Kickback). Other weapons with surgical have much easier time with footsies, or swap extremely fast. They just nerfed the Revolver surgical probably for that reason.
Thrust actually works the same way, on slow weapons (thunderhammer, pickaxe) it builds stacks at 0.2s per stack instead of 0.25s. There are also some moves that build thrust stacks faster to encourage you to combo into them (chainaxe, shockmaul) for the same reason (the moves they are following are slow).
It’s apparently a permanent ‘feature’ that FS doesnt appear interested in addressing or resolving. Likely some easy setting to adjust but FS couldn’t be bothered. Just get used to the game CTD every few missions. Its easier than repeatedly asking for resolution.