So when I first opened this game I assumed the sliders were all set on a global scale, so if a bar was higher, it would do more damage regardless of score.
I now know with watching people test, this isn’t true.
At this point I can only assume (and this is just me completely guessing, I have no way of knowing for sure) that bigger rating = better damage.
On top of this, the descriptors for melee weapons are honestly super vague and I have learned absolutely zero information from this weapon. For instance my axe does… 3 explosions for lights and 2 explosions for heavy? Even if I learned what that explosion symbol means, what does that stat do? Did we learn this in the tutorial?
The special action for this same axe by the way is “special melee attack” – Well that says absolutely nothing. I tried it in the meat grinder and it doesn’t appear to do anything in particular… You just do an undercut for much less damage than a light attack, making it seem like there’s ZERO reason to use it.
For my final example tonight we’ll look at the Force Sword. Light attack does… What I assume is slash, stab, stab. Cool, no idea what the difference is. Is stabbing better against certain targets? No way to look that up. Is that explosion symbol supposed to be blunt damage? Cool, still not a clue what it does.
Finally special action, Warp Charged. Name doesn’t say much but in game I coat my sword in some weird glowy stuff and… I think suck the life from my melee target? This one I haven’t actually tried in the meat grinder yet so I don’t know if it actually does good damage for the heavy cost. In fact, I’d avoid the force sword all together because the very act of blocking can make you explode, but there’s a lot of threads covering that already.
It looks like Fat Shark has a bunch of neat little tools and tricks players can use, but there’s no point in putting it in if nobody can figure out how to utilize them. Put some sort of terminology guide somewhere or something, I don’t know, just right now I’ve got no idea what I’m looking at nor how to learn without letting smarter people do it for me and post results on youtube.
