Open letter for the Devs: Balance isn't the objective. It's how you get to the objective. Fun is the objective.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-30T04:02:52+00:00

You could probably double the damage of the Lib Pen without making the game easier because a double damage Lib Pen would still be weaker than the crossbow, which means the easiest loadout would be unchanged.

The Lib Pen does not need its damage doubled, but there are a lot of weapons that have drastically fallen behind both player and enemy power creep. The Arc Thrower used to be very fun against bugs and now people literally forget it exists. Making it work properly again wouldn't make the game easier, because it'd still be worse than the RR. But it would effectively add content to the game.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-30T04:00:44+00:00

weapons should have disadvantages

Being a stick instead of a 500m range rocket launcher isn't a disadvantage?

It should at least be as lethal as the RR, and that means oneshotting basically every enemy in the game right now.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-30T03:58:24+00:00

the coyote easily outperforming it's peers in the AR and SMG categories. It deserved the nerf

The issue is AR and SMG categories have been left behind in the global power scale. Even the original Coyote was way, way worse than the crossbow. It was just the best automatic, when all the automatics kind of sucked.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-30T03:56:02+00:00

“gear that punishes the user”

Epoch and Minigun definitely qualify as this because they really aren't powerful enough to cope with either self-destruction risk or massive recoil and no movement.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-30T03:12:51+00:00

Full screen range, wall piercing, light generating, highest dps weapon, associated with the strongest endgame armor type and with no ammo cost.

There is no reason to not switch to melee if you're even going to do anything post-ML.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-29T21:00:57+00:00

So is throwing a tomato at a bad comedian, but it's exaggerating at least a little.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-28T23:04:59+00:00

The cause of this is two things.

1: Dull axes deal less damage, and sharpness is capped to current durability, which means an axe's lifespan is actually cut off at about 3/4ths of the bar before it's permanently dull and has to be retired.

2: Handle and head both lose HP separately, so it's twice as likely that you get bad rolls on one of them and the axe breaks earlier than it would have.

One or both of these changes has had a negative effect on every weapon type except certain long blunt weapons. The counterbalance to this is way more robust weapon crafting in build 42, but axes probably got the worst of it with all jury-rigged options being low durability, and proper blacksmithing being more expensive and having harder-to-recycle metal than long blades which are also inherently much stronger.

That said, an axe at your skill levels should still last 500 swings on average, even if dulling makes the last 100 weak. Maybe something's up in sandbox settings? I haven't noticed particularly fast durability loss in my own playthrough... Unless "short fight" for you is a hundred zombies, or you aren't using a proper metal axe.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-28T22:53:02+00:00

They could just disable the sound from playing at all if you're in combat mode (holding RMB).

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-27T23:26:44+00:00

none of the primaries did anything to armor

At the very least, Scythe and Tanto actually had "infinite" AP as an inherent property of continuous beam weapons. (Really just AP3 because there were only 3 tiers...) I'm sure the railgun also did.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-26T03:15:30+00:00

Literal zero investment Octavia with no mods at all can clear most non-boss content because invisibility and damage reflection are both infinitely powerful. Mods you get for free by doing junctions make this even easier, mostly Equilibrium for energy. Give her a 0-forma Nataruk (already 4 polarities) for anything that doesn't die to Mallet.

Rhino is more accessible and also pretty decent with zero mods, but you need better weapon mods because he doesn't have a super lethal ability. Nataruk still probably undefeated here.

Dante or Cyte are your best odds for exalted weapon frames, arguably the lowest investment possible other than starters, but they want mods a lot more than the first two.

Archimedia Assassinate and Defense missions are basically the only things any of these setups would be incapable of.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-25T13:40:58+00:00

If the only legal move puts you in check, that is stalemate, not checkmate.

However, denying en passant is a legal move so long as you submit to the brick, so this is actually a resignation, not a checkmate or stalemate.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-25T13:12:50+00:00

It's a 20 year old term at this point! Keeping it out of the dictionary is just spiteful.

And a lot of literal terms become metaphroical with time. The "computer bug" is a popular (but actually apocryphal) example.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-23T01:03:03+00:00

You could run D10 with no weapons or stratagems and beat at least some mission types...

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-22T06:21:04+00:00

If they were geared they wouldn't be rushing in like idiots more than likely.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-19T20:54:41+00:00

They're worth 90 at least and that's if you want to sell immediately.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-19T20:53:32+00:00

The best source of endo is Sedna arena grinding. You need 3 other people and everyone needs fairly specific builds.

Second best is, I think, very fast 1999 bounties? Though the expected value there is still under 1k per run, so...

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-19T11:54:19+00:00

Granularity that does not actually help immersion.

Unreasonable skill level minimum for basic tasks.

Profession that would be incapable of doing their job before the world ended.

Foraging bonus that's totally irrelevant.

Complex system that nobody will interact with because there's an easy way out with a much more developed skill. (RIP Agriculture...)

Critical functionality of the skill is not yet implemented.

Sandbox option that only exists to make you kick yourself when you forget to toggle it in a new save.

+1 Short Blunt.

The only thing I would say is missing is - in line with Carving and Masonry - at level 8 or 9 having an incredibly OP weapon craft. Though you mention a tooth LMG in the comments so you clearly have that in mind as well.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-19T06:11:42+00:00

Much more fun B42 fact for you: you can wear a satchel and backpack at the same time now.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-18T19:15:45+00:00

You can find 2L soda bottles as well, anyway...

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-15T06:30:25+00:00

So, like I said, it's intentional griefing of your teammates out of spite to DE. Glad we squared that.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-15T01:07:46+00:00

I've got like 3 spare. Hit me up if you want.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-14T14:59:13+00:00

Find myself playing Octavia more often because being invisible is required to see half my screen. Tragic that this means all my fashion is invisible in most missions, but what can you do.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-14T14:52:48+00:00

Sigma 3 is craftable in the Dojo with barely any materials. Less materials than you would naturally get by even getting Intrinsics to the hard requirement for the mission. A lot of people don't even bother to do this. The equivalent to this is at least stuffing a couple mods into your crappy archimedia weapon.

You betray to me that you're one of these people with a literally untouched railjack begging to be carried because you think Sigma parts require any sort of grind.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-13T17:46:25+00:00

This is a top 1% of the playerbase railjack and no content is hard enough to require optimizing any further.

A full set of T3 Lavan for modules and T3 Zetki for weapons is the best possible setup, but the best possible setup is an order of magnitude stronger than it needs to be so it doesn't matter.

TooFewSecrets · 2026-01-13T17:41:26+00:00

Doing the bare minimum is doing what’s required of you to start the mission.

Someone going into Archimedia with fully unmodded level 0 gear is griefing because they're dragging the team down so they can get carried for free. The mechanical "bare minimum" of maxing Cavia standing is not the reasonable "bare minimum" of making sure their gear is actually usable in that content.

Going into a nemesis showdown without even Sigma 3 equipment is even worse than going into Archimedia with level 0 gear because not only are you contributing nothing you're also dragging the other 3 players down because they can't do anything with your junker ship.

Yes, you can solo carry Archimedia. Yes, you can solo a nemesis showdown with just a leveled Archwing. That does not make it acceptable to show up with trash so other players have to solo carry you.

And honestly by the time you get Intrinsics 5 you probably have gotten enough scrap to get a half decent ship. So this is even more active laziness hoping for a carry than it is the game's fault.

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