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Originally posted by iv2b

Hey, apologies for pestering you, i've found something weird regarding the new -skin glands and i think you may want to know.

I've ran duels against two identical pawns, one had the toughskin gland (the weaker one) and the other had nothing at all. Both are at 10 melee skill.

Armor set is devilstrand duster + flak vest + button shirt + flak pants.

Weapon of choice is a normal quality steel dagger (best case scenario for the toughskin).

This is how it went down:

	Toughskin	Regular skin	Total
No armor, no weapon	3	17	20
Armor, no weapon	10	10	20
Armor and weapon	18	12	30

With a weapon (best case scenario) and armor, the toughskin did indeed seem to help.

However without armor the toughskin gland actually...

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Originally posted by iv2b

Right, about this subject: does the game currently use the old or new melee verb calculations?

The new one has best/mid/worst with a 80/20/0 split, in this scenario a melee pawn has some benefit in having 1-n prosthetic weapons as they'll dilute the 20% pool with better attacks. That seems to work quite well already from what i've seen, at least if the dev tool is accurate.

Status inflicting attacks would feel interesting at ~10-15% usage imo, maybe they could be placed in the same tier (best/mid/worst) but weighted in their favor (which can already be done by having multiple attacks, like giving the venom fangs 3 different bites with identical stats).

I'm looking forward to it, i'm especially interested in the venom fangs/talons myself, i really like the concept.

One last thing while we're here: could it be possible to have pawns incapable of violence equip the psyfocus staff, just for the stat bonuses? My psycaster is a pacifist and that restrictio...

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Originally posted by iv2b

Hey good to know, thank you for stopping by!

I'm curious to see how the subject will be tackled: on one end there are pawns with 1/a few prosthetic weapons to use as backup and on the other end there are pawns who are fully weaponized with a dozen prosthetics, making both feel good is challenging.

Another user suggested improving attack speed when attacking with prosthetics, scaling with number. Could be a fun approach to try out. :)

Originally posted by anotherusername96

I just started the Royal Ascent quest for the first time. 4 cataphracts have arrived to protect the stellarch and they all have really crappy gear, the best helmet amongst the bunch is 16% and armour is around 50% otherwise lower. This seems a bit weak considering isn't this supposed to be the bodyguard of an emperor?

Originally posted by Enzeevee

I finished up that quest yesterday and I dunno how much of it was the quest and how much of it was Randy but the first half of the visit was f**kin nuts. I didn't even have time to patch people up. Every time a raid ended a new one would immediately begin, and the game also decided to throw Global Warming + Heat Wave in at the same time. A large chunk of my base including my solar panels/wind turbines were destroyed from a dry thunderstorm because I just could not spare enough people from the front lines to put fires out. It was pretty intense, though it petered out and became more what I was expecting towards the end.

Very glad I stuck half-cyclers in everyone so they didn't need to sleep, and also glad I shoved a joywire in the Stellarch so I didn't have to worry about her mood being shot from the 150F heat and power outages. For some reason she showed up completely naked, so she had the mood debuff for no royal clothing the entire time.

Originally posted by gCvdA

I wonder if tynan deliberately made it so that every time you see him in this game he has horrible stats