How the fuck else would you implement the combat system without cooldowns? Am I fucking missing something here?
You may have missed out, but long has the Codex argued vociferously against cooldowns in general - arguably this happened during the long drought of real RPGs and the heyday of MMOs. Everywhere you looked it seemed like people were eschewing Vancian and other forms of cost management in favour of lazy cooldowns. The result was often a gameplay where you never need to think about whether to use or
not use a given ability. Of course you'd use every ability, and you would spam the button as soon as the cooldown was over - why wouldn't you, there's no other cost. Especially in real-time games with many different abilities, you were like a monkey spamming every button the moment it became shiny again.
Underrail, obviously, avoids many of these problems; it's turn-based, it works on a relatively spartan AP/MP distribution, non-PSI characters usually have less than 10 or even less than 5 primary abilities to work with. Still, it's curious that UR has apparently made the Codex forget its loud protestations about cooldowns, without doing any major surgery on the mechanism.
