This suddenly started happening when playing through the latest build and it's started infuriating me to the point where I'm not sure if something's changed or something's bugged. I booted up some random old save file and found myself utterly unable to do old Zheng Shi fights that I could do without issue before. In particular, the Sylveren Slavebreaker, Jasvalla, and Sophora fights have suddenly become seemingly impossible. Even the Bored Jumpers can be randomly difficult.
For reference, my character is a level 10 (the previous max) Mercenary that focuses on ranged attacks. I, of course, have 50 Aim, which is the max for my level. Even using a Stormbull Shotgun, which has an Accuracy of +18, my shots seem to hit these enemies an average of 20% of the time. I can Rapid Fire and consistently miss 3 or all 4 shots, which begs the question as to what the point of my Aim stat even is if I can't seem to hit enemies?
The Sylveren Slavebreaker is annoying because she can seemingly infinitely repair her shields by sapping mine, and since I can't hit her, I can't out-DPS the shield gain. I don't have sexy or un-sexy clothes, but all of my teases seem to have no effect on her. Once I get pinned, I'm guaranteed to lose. It doesn't matter if I struggle for 5 turns in a row, my 8 Physique means I'm utterly helpless, to the point where I unintentionally got bad ended by one, which I don't think has ever happened to me before. As I stated before, I don't recall ever having this sort of trouble with this particular enemy. Running from fights also seems to be much less likely to work.
Jasvalla and Sophora I know are supposed to be difficult fights, and I haven't been able to defeat them as consistently in the past as I have normal enemies such as the Slavebreakers, but Sophora will sometimes deal hundreds of damage in one turn while I can't seem to hit her. I don't recall her doing that sort of damage in the past either, so maybe she got a huge buff in her latest update?
I'm sure a lot of this is going to come off as whining, or rage from someone who doesn't interact with the game mechanics properly (I'll admit that I can be guilty of that), but I've played this game enough to feel like something has changed about these combats that doesn't seem right. I've also tried other weapons and getting better armor, to no avail. If anyone could let me know if I missed some combat update or if they're experiencing the same things, that'd be nice to know. I'll also attach my save file, why not?
For reference, my character is a level 10 (the previous max) Mercenary that focuses on ranged attacks. I, of course, have 50 Aim, which is the max for my level. Even using a Stormbull Shotgun, which has an Accuracy of +18, my shots seem to hit these enemies an average of 20% of the time. I can Rapid Fire and consistently miss 3 or all 4 shots, which begs the question as to what the point of my Aim stat even is if I can't seem to hit enemies?
The Sylveren Slavebreaker is annoying because she can seemingly infinitely repair her shields by sapping mine, and since I can't hit her, I can't out-DPS the shield gain. I don't have sexy or un-sexy clothes, but all of my teases seem to have no effect on her. Once I get pinned, I'm guaranteed to lose. It doesn't matter if I struggle for 5 turns in a row, my 8 Physique means I'm utterly helpless, to the point where I unintentionally got bad ended by one, which I don't think has ever happened to me before. As I stated before, I don't recall ever having this sort of trouble with this particular enemy. Running from fights also seems to be much less likely to work.
Jasvalla and Sophora I know are supposed to be difficult fights, and I haven't been able to defeat them as consistently in the past as I have normal enemies such as the Slavebreakers, but Sophora will sometimes deal hundreds of damage in one turn while I can't seem to hit her. I don't recall her doing that sort of damage in the past either, so maybe she got a huge buff in her latest update?
I'm sure a lot of this is going to come off as whining, or rage from someone who doesn't interact with the game mechanics properly (I'll admit that I can be guilty of that), but I've played this game enough to feel like something has changed about these combats that doesn't seem right. I've also tried other weapons and getting better armor, to no avail. If anyone could let me know if I missed some combat update or if they're experiencing the same things, that'd be nice to know. I'll also attach my save file, why not?