Overpressure: Up to +3% Power, scaling with remaining ammunition. Stacks 5 times.
This description is completely useless and unhelpful.
- It doesn’t tell you whether full ammo means more or less damage
- It doesn’t tell you whether it means ammo in reserve or clip
- It doesn’t tell you where those 3% breakpoints are.
- It doesn’t have any kind of in-game UI for this (applies to all traits I’ve seen so far), as things such as swift-slaying did in VT2. A clear indicator of when this is active would be nice.
It’s ammo in clip/magazine/tank, less ammo means more damage
I ran some tests in the Psykhanium on Malice III to check some of these things.
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This was done using a rating 287 Artemia Mk III Purgation Flamer’s left click against a Dreg Rager. There is very likely some rounding error going on, as we only see 2 increases of damage increases when there are 5 stacks, and 23 → 26 is only a 13% increase. This makes sense as 23 x 1.15 = 26.45, rounded to 26.
If anyone has a higher damage/instance weapon that they can do this same test on so we can see clearer breakpoints that would be swell.
I suggest changing the text of Overpressure to better show this behaviour. The words “scaling with remaining ammunition” very much implies that more ammo means more damage. Instead of what we have, I think these are clearer:
- “Up to +15% power, scaling with missing ammunition in weapon magazine”
- “Gain a stack of 3% power for every 20% ammunition used, resetting on reload”
Thoughts?