As the title states, I believe I might have found a few bugs specifically related to the Lucius Mk III (and the Lucius patterns as a whole). As it stands the gun is suppose to be a trade off between RPM and damage, in which the Mk III has significantly more damage but significantly less RPM. After having a very frustrating game with the Lucius Mk III where I felt like I was doing extremely little damage compared to my allies, and even compared to the Mk I and Mk II, I decided to see what was going on. So I hopped into the Psykanium.
For reference, here are the two weapons I experimented with, the Mk II being the higher RPM + Low Damage variant.
Using the Maller as my reference (using only bodyshots to keep the results consistent), I did a few damage tests on Heresy difficulty to see what the damage values of the two guns were. And came to this discovery:
Something in my gut told me that this was the case when I tried it out, and I would not be surprised if these damage values were the same for the Mk I, which I sadly didn’t have to commit this test with. I hope that Fatshark sees this and considers taking a look at the Lucius patterns as a whole to see if the code on the backend got messed up somewhere. If I am wrong in my assumptions however about how the weapon variants are suppose to work then please let me know. But for now, to all of you who see this, I’d advise only using the Mk. II for now for the extra fire rate until this is looked into or answered.
Extra note: On my test run with the Mk III I noticed a very distinguishable delay in the bayonet swing that does not seem to be natural. I would ask that you guys please look into that as well. If it is, then PLEASE for the love of Sigmar and the Emperor make the bayonet swing faster. Not as fast as the jap used by the other two obviously, but enough that it can actually contend with using your melee weapon. Because in its current state, the Mk III bayonet swing is so slow that unless you time it well before the enemy gets to you, they can actually outpace your slashes and stagger you, forcing you to use your melee weapon anyway. What’s the point of having a pointy stick if the pointy stick doesn’t do its job???
Yep! if you aim down the sites and hold down the mouse button you’ll see two bars that gradually fill up all the way to max as you hold down the button, using the Lucius is all about the the muscle memory of how long you need to hold the button to charge to kill your target.
Most chaff can die to half a full charge on headshot or a full charge bodyshot, and most elites will die to one full charge headshot or a few full charged bodyshots on maulers and crushers.
Test the charge breakpoints for your chosen difficulty in the meatgrinder so you know how much charge you need to kill your targets.
Fully charged headshots when you activate your ability can DEMOLISH armored enemies and bosses, even at max difficulty.
Well there is that, Charging the shot is going to make a lot of difference and where you ARE going to see the difference. But if what he is showing as a example on the weapon rating and modifiers on their weapons is true then it very much is a bug that needs to be dealt with.
As the Mk3 has a higher damage modifier and and same-ish stopping power for armor damage penetration it should be at least hitting 4-8 points of damage higher theoretically. IF it had the same rate of ammo consumption.
From what Omega shown in the pictures, and when I had Lucius patterns in my arsenal to test, the mk2 did have a ammo consumption of 2-3 ammo per uncharged shot and a constant 6 ammo per charged shot.
While the mk3 when I tested it out (November 25, when crafting system was introduced) it was using 5 ammo per uncharged, rarely 6, and 12 ammo per charged shot. Considering they pull from the same relative sized ammo pool with the mk3 draining it twice as fast for the same amount of damage it certainly does need to be looked into in my opinion as that simply doesn’t seem right.
