[2020] Bonewidow 2.0 Ability Changes

Hello, Tenno!

Bonewidow has had a bit of an iterative release - there’s all the changes we made post-test cluster weekend, some pretty nasty bug fixes, and now, another big round of changes. Feedback regarding Bonewidow’s abilities have brought forth the upcoming Ability overhaul changes you see below! We appreciate all the suggestions on our second Necramech thus far, take a look at what’s coming your way soon:

BONEWIDOW 2.0

MEATHOOK: 

An important raised issue with Bonewidow is being unable to regenerate Health, as Bonewidow is geared towards the more “tankier” focused Necramech in comparison to Voidrig. This change to Meathook aims to tackle that head on. 

• Held enemies will lose Health over time, the Health lost will be transferred into Bonewidow. Held enemies will also have Damage Over Time applied to them. 

  • Drain speed and % of Health transferred can be upgradable.

• Improved Meathook grab to feel sharper and more consistent. 

  • We found that the animation was sliding forward before the grab trigger was enabled, so if the AI was close, you would slide past before the grab would ever engage.

 

SHIELD MAIDEN: 

• Damage Reflection added to the shield, incoming blocked damage will be reflected back at the target.

  • Damage Reflection can be upgraded with level and Strength Mods.

• Meleeing with Shield Maiden will give you access to the Shield Bash you get while using Exalted Ironbride.

 

FIRING LINE:

Firing Line needs to work as a better set up to let Exalted Ironbride shred enemies, and we’ve ensured it’s casting leads to better set up opportunities with these changes:

• Added the Lifted Status to enemies hit for 5 seconds (upgradeable by Mods).

• 1.5x Damage multiplier on Lifted enemies.

 

EXALTED IRONBRIDE: 

• Radial ragdoll added to 3rd melee strike with the ability to Critical hit - but not full knock back as to keep enemies contained within striking distance.

• Exalted Ironbride now has a slight aim assist that will help prevent over swing.

 

Shield Bash

The Shield Bash has been expanded to work whenever you have a Shield equipped, not just when you have a Sword and Shield!

• • Gun/Shield: The melee 'E' Key

  • Sword/Shield: The left mouse button

• Added Lift Status to Shield Bash.

 

General:

• Truncated Bonewidow jump Melee strikes by 1 second to improve responsiveness.

 

The above is subject to change, but we wanted to keep everyone in the loop on Bonewidows progress. These changes will go live in our next PC Hotfix AND will also be included in the Deimos: Arcana console update - thanks!