Unlocked and Loaded - Weapon, Blessing and Class Changes Balancing Patch Notes - Pt.1

[Antilus]

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but also to make it more well rounded and more exciting to use in all situations.

well rounded doesn’t mean exciting, having its niche is, thunderhammer damage to bosses without shroudfield backstab build should not be suffering

all this

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Boltgun / Bolt Pistol

In this release we added a set of targeted buffs aimed to increase the overall reliability of the iconic Boltgun and Bolt Pistol weapons, but also to significantly improve their performance against specific enemy types and in various situations.

Dev Note: We are aware of some issues regarding the aim of the bolt weapons, particularly in the recoil and sway when shooting continuously.

Unfortunately the issues are rooted quite deeply in the interaction between multiple different systems, so a complete fix was not possible for this release. We are going to continue investigating a solution and provide an update on our progress at a later date.

In the meantime, we have added some tweaks on the Sway and hitscan behaviors which should at least alleviate part of the issue.

Detailed Changes

• Both Families
  • Reduced the intensity of the Sway from 1.0 to 0.3.

Dev Note: This will make the weapon to be overall slightly less unwieldy when aiming, and also make it less likely for the aim position to be significantly displaced when transitioning from hipfire to ADS.

• Extended the radius of the hitscan for the bolt projectiles.

Dev Note: This will make the hitscan detection to be more generous and allow for shots that would have slightly missed the target to still be considered a hit.

• Changed the bolt properties to ignore limbs on non-Monstrosity enemies when the projectile trajectory would have also hit their torso or head.

Dev Note: This will avoid situations where a bolt could be intercepted by the limbs of the enemies even when aiming at their center of mass, resulting in heavily reduced damage.

• Armor damage modifier vs Carapace Armour from 0.4 to 0.5 (both near and far range).
• Armor damage modifier vs Infested from 0.5 to 0.9 (near) / 1.0 (far).

Dev Note: Bolt-type weapons were penalized when shooting against Infested enemies. This tweak will normalize the damage in order to make them more reliable against this armor type.

• Locke Mk IIb Spearhead Boltgun
  • Significantly improved the wield speed, from around 1.9s to 1.6s.
  • Improved the stagger properties of subsequent hits on the same target.

Dev Note: This will make it easier to open up Bulwark shields and reach stagger thresholds on other hard to stagger enemy types.

• Godwyn-Branx Pattern Bolt Pistol
  • Added cleave properties to the bolt projectiles
    • From no_cleave to {1.0,3.0}.

Dev Note: This will make it possible for the shot to hit the intended target instead of being fully absorbed by even a single minor enemy.

• Reduced some chain timings after the Special Push action:
  • Chain to hipfire Shoot from 0.56 to 0.4
  • Chain to Unwield from 0.54 to 0.4
  • Chain to Special from 0.9 to 0.75

unwarranted, boltgun is the best weapon in the game, and bp is decent when you don’t compare it to zarona which you shouldn’t

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Purgation Flamer

• New: Everlasting Flame
  • Critical strikes fill the current clip with 2-5 bullets from your ammo reserve.
• New: Penetrating Flame
  • 1-4% Rending on Burn Stacks.

based

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Relentless

• Removed. It is now included in Executioner’s Stance per default.

also based, but i want my free reload back