The Deceptor machine gun is awful

[VOLAND]

Could be, the devs are investigating the Dante at the moment. Hopefully if it turns out to be something to do with direct fire damage in general it will be taken care of. It takes times but eventually those bugs get squashed - have you noticed that the over-shredding bug is gone?

@Saph

The Dante NEEDS to do pretty extreme damage given that its range is so short that it’s basically a melee weapon. The problem is that the Dante’s targeting is buggy as **** so that half the time that you fire it it does zero damage to targets supposedly in its cone.

Dante can be used effectively at +10 tiles (it’s ER is 12). More than an insta-killer or extreme damage dealer, it’s primarily intended as an area denial weapon. When aiming, look at the health bar of the target: if any portion of it is white, it will be hit, if not, not. (Right now if it will be
hit there is a good chance it will die, or have all of its limbs disabled.) I wish the aiming worked like Rage Burst does now, so you aim at a target, not at a space.

The thing is, something like Dante and the tactical opportunities it offers usually don’t make a lot of sense if you can just bombard the enemies from across the map

@Saph

re: Boom Blast, I’d probably suggest making it more like Quick Aim – it affects ONE explosive attack. Then make it 3 APs instead of 5, and make it only usable once per turn.

Here is mine :

Let's not Nerf - let's Evolve!

Do you mean, for example, reducing AoE from current 3.5 tiles to 3 or to 2.5? Personally, I’m warming up to this idea because in Phoenix Point there is no drop off in damage the further the target is from the explosion. The way blast damage works is that each body part that gets hit by the explosion receives the same damage, regardless of distance from it - so it comes down do the angle at which the target is to the explosion and whether there are any obstacles between the two. This is what ma…