Underrail: The Incline Awakens

[Jack Dandy]

• Combo now has 20% chance to stun (down from 100%)

whaaaaaaat

 

[Inf0mercial]

• Removed some of the unnecessary backtracking during the missing train quest; also added a few more options for handling the quest

Ok this is nice

• Combo now has 20% chance to stun (down from 100%)

Why?

• Nerfed the Coretech warehouse mercenaries in the defense mission

This is pretty decline i hated that missions so much but in a good way, it was hard but it actually made you use consumables and retreat a bit, instead of just soaking all the damage like a tard.

 

[Excidium II]

• Taste for Blood no longer reduces AP cost
• Light weapon AP cost reduction changed to 3% (down from 4%) for each dexterity point above 5
• Fatal Throw now only restores action points once per turn

Destroy Styg

 

[Cyberarmy]

Meanwhile my psi caster still wrecks shit up.

 

[Excidium II]

I was already getting a sting to restart anyway.

rip melee dex builds and throwers.

 

[Ziem]

 

[Sykar]

Paranoia has just become a really good perk.

 

[Bubbles]

You shouldn't deploy major balance changes to 100 hours games without a respec option.

 

[marux]

• Taste for Blood no longer reduces AP cost
• Combo now has 20% chance to stun (down from 100%)

lucky me, did the lightweight fistfighter on my first playthrough.

• You can now place small animals inside the organic processor in DC

:D

• Nerfed the Coretech warehouse mercenaries in the defense mission

I don't get why encounters are made easier...

Overall good job, fixing bugs and doing what codex says.

 

[epeli]

I don't get why encounters are made easier...

If an encounter is easier or harder than intended, it will be tweaked. But if you think this patch made encounters easier, think again. The gun noise fix and new hardmode* AI tricks change pretty much all encounters.

* Styg's patchnotes didn't make it clear, but difficulty setting now changes AI as well. Easy uses the old AI, normal adds some new tricks, hard all of them. Finally a good reason to play on hard!

 

[Excidium II]

That is interesting. Wonder if that means they are smarter about LoS.

 

[epeli]

Yeah. NPCs use LoS cover, deblock doorways, get into better positions for burst fire, stuff like that. And outside combat they've got different behaviors for each state of stealth detection.

 

[Excidium II]

That's nice.

Now what the game needs is more information about noise. Like, does putting an electroshock generator on a silent melee weapon makes attacks noisy?

 

[ST'Ranger]

Just when I was able to put this game down Styg makes huge AI changes for hard mode. This definitely bears investigation.

Taste for Blood change seems questionable - the Knife God of the past was already intensely nerfed with the previous change and with the food nerf. Some of the other changes I'm confused about as well. Honestly, not nerfing psi powers at this point should raise some eyebrows.

 

[Sykar]

I was already getting a sting to restart anyway.

rip melee dex builds and throwers.

Why rip? They went through most combat like a hot knife through butter anyway and I do not see that this has changed much.

 

[Excidium II]

Of course it still works thanks to feat sinergy. It's just not as satisfying.

 

[Nines]

Removed some of the unnecessary backtracking during the missing train quest; also added a few more options for handling the quest

One of my biggest complaints. I hope the alternatives are good.

Version 1.0.1.9

• Fixed the bug that caused the characters to be able to cast psi abilities even if they lack psi points
  
• Fixed the bug that put the player in combat when environmental effects that they caused hurt NPCs in controlled areas, even though the player is hidden

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

is the game easier now on easy or easy is considered the old difficulty?

 

[Mac_Orion]

is the game easier now on easy or easy is considered the old difficulty?

easy stayed like the old easy, except the warehouse quest, its a bit easier on easy. But normal and hard are more challenging, because NPC have now better AI.

The idea is to make difficulty settings harder through gameplay instead just number inflating, I love min/maxing, but the game should not be about 2 cookiecutter builds that only can master hard difficulty, instead about creating various builds with interesting playstyles that overcome hard encounters.

Warehouse was a bit nerfed because in the last wave there was a really crazy mix of enemies (snipers, cutthroats, trappers) that with the new AI where cheesing the player and you could really easy loose control for several turns and get one shot, thats was to much. Now that would not be a problem if it wasn't a main quest, anything that is optional stayed the same, in the end it got harder on Hard, a bit harder on Normal and easier on Easy.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

easy stayed like the old easy, except the warehouse quest, its a bit easier on easy. But normal and hard are more challenging, because NPC have now better AI.

The idea is to make difficulty settings harder through gameplay instead just number inflating, I love min/maxing, but the game should not be about 2 cookiecutter builds that only can master hard difficulty, instead about creating various builds with interesting playstyles that overcome hard encounters.

Warehouse was a bit nerfed because in the last wave there was a really crazy mix of enemies (snipers, cutthroats, trappers) that with the new AI where cheesing the player and you could really easy loose control for several turns and get one shot, thats was to much. Now that would not be a problem if it wasn't a main quest, anything that is optional stayed the same, in the end it got harder on Hard, a bit harder on Normal and easier on Easy.

what old easy? we didn't have difficulty before.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

or we only had normal and hard? I really don't remember.

 

[Florian Gheorghe]

also since when do we have people murmuring in Core City? I don't remember that. It's great tho...

 

[marux]

or we only had normal and hard? I really don't remember.

EDIT:
actually:
easy - double healing, less cd on heal, double player hp
normal -
hard - half healing, double cd on heal, 2/3 character hp

only ai was improved on normal and hard

 

[epeli]

marux easy also doubles player HP.

And I just noticed the difficulty multiplier for player HP on hard is not 1/2, it's 2/3.

 

[Excidium II]

wow. Did nobody ever do the math?