Posted July 07, 2019
Hello there.
Straight to the point: does anyone know of a fix for the joke of a patch that rendered the best skill combo in the game (Ruptured Tendons + Chicken Claw) literally useless? Is there a mod that fixes the ******** Larian turned the combo into, or perhaps an easy way to edit some files and get this back? Anything helps.
(By "that" I mean the fact that the chicken no longer behaves like a chicken - somehow the target remains completely sane and logical after its brain gets shrinked... what, 10 times? 20? 30? and refuses to move if it has RT effect on it and the movement would damage it).
And before some justice warriors talk me down for my ****talk, let me rant please.
I like rogues. I always play stealth/sneak/assassin-like if I can. I loved the Ruptured Tendoss skill from the beginning (before I even realised I can pair it with the Chicken Claw). When I discovered the combo myself I was head over heels with it. It was both strong and hilarious. Maybe even OP (with the amount of misses on either of the 2 skills I experienced it was definietely far from being OP, but I get why it is considered so). But the god-awful fix that Larian presented to nerf it is the worst example of balancing a game I have seen in years.
There are SO MANY ways they could have gone about it. Slow the chicken, make it use a random number of AP on movement (1-6), lower the RT dmg or make it last only 1 turn... Dozens of possibilities. And they chose to make the chicken NOT MOVE AT ALL. (Supposedly it sometimes does, but I've been playing for about 20-30h and I haven't seen a chicken move once).
The game has many issues with logic and AI behaviour (like the fact that "noone knows you're undead if you are covered in clothing" but when you fight suddenly the first thing the enemy does is using Restoration on you - MAKE UP YOUR MIND LARIAN, THEY KNOW OR THEY DON'T), and I understand completely why AI would avoid moving with RT on them. But the moment you turn them into a chicken they should no longer behave rationally and the fact that they still refuse to move (rendering the RT skill literally USELESS unless you wanted a second Cripple effect or manage to somehow take out both Physical AND Magic Armor so you can fear them after using RT). What is the point of having a skill that damages the target when they move, if you're gonna hard-code it into their chicken-sized brains to NEVER move with the effect? It defeats the whole point of the ability. WIth how it is now it could pretty much just add a Cripple instead - it would make 0 difference.
Sorry, I got carried away. The point is:
Is there a way to make the chicken act like a chicken again? A mod, a file, anything? (I would prefer to avoid reverting patches TBH).
P.S.
If you think the change is any better than absolutely trash, feel free to try and change my mind, but I honestly doubt there is a single valid argument supporting that statement.
Cheers.
Straight to the point: does anyone know of a fix for the joke of a patch that rendered the best skill combo in the game (Ruptured Tendons + Chicken Claw) literally useless? Is there a mod that fixes the ******** Larian turned the combo into, or perhaps an easy way to edit some files and get this back? Anything helps.
(By "that" I mean the fact that the chicken no longer behaves like a chicken - somehow the target remains completely sane and logical after its brain gets shrinked... what, 10 times? 20? 30? and refuses to move if it has RT effect on it and the movement would damage it).
And before some justice warriors talk me down for my ****talk, let me rant please.
I like rogues. I always play stealth/sneak/assassin-like if I can. I loved the Ruptured Tendoss skill from the beginning (before I even realised I can pair it with the Chicken Claw). When I discovered the combo myself I was head over heels with it. It was both strong and hilarious. Maybe even OP (with the amount of misses on either of the 2 skills I experienced it was definietely far from being OP, but I get why it is considered so). But the god-awful fix that Larian presented to nerf it is the worst example of balancing a game I have seen in years.
There are SO MANY ways they could have gone about it. Slow the chicken, make it use a random number of AP on movement (1-6), lower the RT dmg or make it last only 1 turn... Dozens of possibilities. And they chose to make the chicken NOT MOVE AT ALL. (Supposedly it sometimes does, but I've been playing for about 20-30h and I haven't seen a chicken move once).
The game has many issues with logic and AI behaviour (like the fact that "noone knows you're undead if you are covered in clothing" but when you fight suddenly the first thing the enemy does is using Restoration on you - MAKE UP YOUR MIND LARIAN, THEY KNOW OR THEY DON'T), and I understand completely why AI would avoid moving with RT on them. But the moment you turn them into a chicken they should no longer behave rationally and the fact that they still refuse to move (rendering the RT skill literally USELESS unless you wanted a second Cripple effect or manage to somehow take out both Physical AND Magic Armor so you can fear them after using RT). What is the point of having a skill that damages the target when they move, if you're gonna hard-code it into their chicken-sized brains to NEVER move with the effect? It defeats the whole point of the ability. WIth how it is now it could pretty much just add a Cripple instead - it would make 0 difference.
Sorry, I got carried away. The point is:
Is there a way to make the chicken act like a chicken again? A mod, a file, anything? (I would prefer to avoid reverting patches TBH).
P.S.
If you think the change is any better than absolutely trash, feel free to try and change my mind, but I honestly doubt there is a single valid argument supporting that statement.
Cheers.
Post edited July 07, 2019 by Seredith
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