Repair mechanics it's tricky to properly balance. The actual "HP" bar should be considered a kind of "stamina" bar, if it goes to zero you are unconscious. They also have different malus effects, depending of their kind. The real "HP" bar are the wounds, that don't disappear with time and need proper healing with med-kits or treatments. The game is a mess, but I think I kind understand what they are trying here. And it reeks of an attitude that says, "Oh shit, we didn't think beyond the first draft and made not a semblance of effort to balance our side effects system, and now people don't like quick, slap a dirty band-aid on it!" Flawless, I'm given to understand, was not there at launch, only added in a patch. The definition of a non-problem.Īnd of course there's the Flawless side effect, which robs you of any advantages from the profession, but also forces no maluses on you. There's actual potential for roleplay with some of these.īut then there's things like Bad Lungs. And if you cough while sneaking around a dozen of guards? Trouble. Since-apart from a sub-menu that only indicates the top of every hour-you don't have any on-screen indication as to how much time has passed, unless you use a third-party program or a good ol' stopwatch, you won't know when the next cough is coming. In practice, every ten in-game minutes your character coughs violently, causing a ruckus that attracts attention. Constant air pollution has inflamed your lungs. This one forces you to share the medkits you might possess with any vagrants you talk to.Ī side effect for Dock Workers is Cough. If you pick professions such as Street Doctor or Nurse, your selection of side effects includes Oath To Heal. Moreover, even when they shoot, no matter that the drone is made from a slug, plasma, or laser gun, it doesn't change anything.īut you mention broken debuffs at character creation, and I have to say that I find quite a few genuinely interesting. And when a drone does it, it bumps forward into the enemy, as can be seen in games like Tales Of Maj'Eyal or the old Ys serie. 'Whip' being the same ability you have, to smack a gun's butt straight into someone's face. But in truth, most of the time they sort of hover about me, and frequently use 'Whip' when near an enemy. Once in a while they shoot according to the log, but I don't see any projectile, though it does indeed damage the enemies.
setting to melee or distance, and it doesn't seem to change how they behave. The drones are kinda cute, floating about you as they do.īut, how the hell do they work? They're gun drones, so they shoot, right? Well, no, not really. the gun's Aim Challenge) successfully allows you to create a drone from said gun.
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There are Drone Kits, which, using the Repair skill (more precisely your number of dices and pips in Repair, plus any possible dice in Learning, vs. The more I play, the more everything about the game screams wasted potential.
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