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my biggest issue was the bullet sponging and totally unbalanced combat, youd either be a god that couldnt die or someone who has to land 50 headshots with a sniper rifle to kill someone

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[โ€“] jackpot@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love it now, everything feels punchy because you're not gated around finding new weapons every level

just explain this all in more detail please

[โ€“] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So pre 2.0, all the weapons, armor, cyberware, etc. had a level assigned to them in addition to the rarity that determined how big the numbers were, and it forced you to go through your vendor trash each time on the off chance that the numbers were better on any particular weapon you found. Now, every weapon of a particular type has the same parameters depending on rarity tier (white through gold) so if you have a higher tier of the same weapon, it's explicitly, if marginally better, and this keeps you from having to sort through 20-odd weapons every time you go sell, which drastically speeds up the process. Even more so if you stick with the unique iconic weapons, which can be upgraded with materials up to tier 5.

As a side-effect of this, the marginal increases can't boost the legendary item's damage that much higher than the common rarity, so even the most common weapons still deal adequate damage, so enemies aren't spongy like they used to be.

[โ€“] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is the answer i was looking for / hoping for, thank fucking god holy shit. so theres ten levels but the levels arent that different from one another if i understand right

[โ€“] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct, and you're more likely to get higher rarity tiers as you level.

[โ€“] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when was this change implemented!? is this like the combat rebalance mod?

[โ€“] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume it's all part of 2.0, released last week. If you own CP2077 you have it, it's separate from the DLC.

[โ€“] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well have you played befkee then and did it work like that back then?

[โ€“] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did, right around release date, and all the equipment was a lot more vendor trashy - I think it was built directly on Witcher 3 code, with items having leveled attributes and some having level requirements the same way that game handled equipment.

[โ€“] jackpot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

so when was this change implemented roughly, i cant see anything online about it