A little worried about the forthcoming patch destroying what makes PP unique

[Rookie]

@joshybones

I feel like the “Realistic Ballistic Model” thing is pretty innovative and unique. I don’t think the game needs a rebalance so much as players just need time to learn the game. Sure, some things are over-tuned at the moment, but I agree with OP. This game is rad and unique.

I don’t get why people feel the need to go all positive or all negative. Their ballistic model is just like Valkyria Chronicles, or the original XCOM so not really innovative, but something that was great to return to the genre, yeah. A lot of stuff about PP is great, under all the refuse.

But to say this game doesn’t need rebalancing? This requires very short play time and very high optimism (or a decent bribe). Some people find the game impossible to win due to loads of poorly balanced enemies, and others realized the game is incredibly easy to break:

Game difficulty is too easy

Sniper rifles go through armor. Im like 15 hours into the game. Fighting against chirons and sirens right now. 1:54:32 Go to that time and watch that.

@Tsudico

But it isn’t. Many of the enemies have attacks that are on other body parts. So it requires tactics to determine whether it is best to focus on killing the enemy (removing all attacks) or removing the biggest threats on multiple enemies.

Which brings us back to body parts being pointless. And it kind of makes sense… I mean, what IS the weak-point of a bullet sponge? Sponges don’t have arms or legs or heads, in fact.

I’m reminded of Ninja Gaiden 2 3D, where you could cut off all of a ninja’s limbs save one, and he would crawl after you, an suicide bomb you. That’s something that would be cool to see in this game. Instead, by the time you take off a couple of limbs, the enemy dies, despite having plenty of HP.

I sum up the problems of lethality and head shots here:

Feedback: Lethality

Summary In UFO Defence, when an alien hit you with a plasma bolt… it was scary bad. Every time they shot one it made you tense, watching it soar across the map, out of the darkness. Because if it hit your guy, he could be killed, he could be grievously injured and bleeding out, or he could panic if he was a Rookie. Even if it landed near them, it would reduce morale, causing troops to panic from too many. And as scary and those aliens were, they were mortal. Damage was fairly random in UFOD, b…