Lust Weapons and Special abilities.

ScarletteKnight

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So I was in the shower and started wondering: How do Special abilities affect Lust Weapons? For example Charge Weapon a d Overcharge as a Techie; does CW add electrical damage to the melee, useful for fighting bots, and does OC just give a 200% Lust shot? And what about the Smuggler's Sneak Attack and Aimed Shot?
 
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"SCIENCE!" ~Mad Scientist

Field Tests:
So, I tested it using a Bio-Whip and a Slut Ray on a unsuspecting, uninformed and legaly clearly in a grey area sitting Kroggone, a female one.
-Charge Weapon does INDEED simply add electrical damage. That means that even the lust-only Bio-Whip can pack a seriour punch, when used this way.
-Overcharge, on the other hand, seems to work as intended. Since it requires Energy-Weapons, I testet the Slut Ray.
The usual hit I get with the Slut Ray does arround 8-9 Lust, but the overcharged shoots up to the 20+. And is still able to Stun, btw.
-I was unable to get a Aimed Shot with the Slut Ray, even trough unprportional use uf flash-grenades. May be my RNG, trough.
-Last but not least, as a small Boni, if one wants to see it this way: The Deep Queens Bow. The Concussive Shot does still stun.
No one with rights was harmed, all paricipants enjoyed the after-work hours.

This concludes my current report.
 
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Thank you! I would've done the tests personally, but I don't have a PC for editing and honestly just didn't feel like making characters for perk testing if I'd have to take the time to level up.
 
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Irrlicht said:
-I was unable to get a Aimed Shot with the Slut Ray, even trough unprportional use uf flash-grenades. May be my RNG, trough.
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The Bio-whip on the other hand, does get it's Sneak Attack bonus, and turns a weapon with no damage into a weapon that does around 50 damage (makes it proportional to your physique?). It has no damage flags too, so I think that makes it unresistable. It took awhile, and RNG might've been on my side, but my melee smug was able to down the Frostwyrm with it.
 
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Irrlicht said:
Impressive!
So it deals damage instead of lust when gaining a sneak-boni? Interesting...
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Not instead of, but both at the same time. The Frostwyrm is immune to such, so damage is the only way to beat it. For everything else, it's a race to see if they'll fall to lust or damage as you whip them sneakily.
 
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Raindrops said:
I'm pretty sure "boni" is plural mate. The singular is just "Bonus" as usual.
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Well, I am german, and the word 'Bonus' is exactly the same over here. And while we can use 'Boni' as a plural, given the context not everything results in the same singular or plural in our gramatical diffrences.
So in german, using 'Boni' to describe this 50+ damage would not exactly be wrong. Not the right way, eigther, but a grey area where GrammaNazi will fight each other if one can do it or not.
As a example that is maybe more understandable: Glasses. They are plural in english, and we german find it redicules because a blind man could see that that is a singular object.
Well, as a result of me being german, I did some false english. I will need to remember that everything is a singular if one speaks of a Bonus. Thanks for telling me, somehow I have to learn it, afterall.

Darkwarpalg6 said:
Not instead of, but both at the same time. The Frostwyrm is immune to such, so damage is the only way to beat it. For everything else, it's a race to see if they'll fall to lust or damage as you whip them sneakily.
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I meant that it does not boosts the lust 'damage', like overcharge does for the ray, but instead adds simple normal damage. That the Sneak and Aimed attacks do ignore what the weapon does normaly and just adds its own number to it instead of boosting its effect.
 
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Well, this has been informative. Does this mean that, explosive specials aside, the Mercenary is the worst Bimbo?
 
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ScarletteKnight said:
But does it work like Overcharge or Sneak Attack?
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Hell if I know. I always forget about lust damage because lust weapons are few and far between and teasing is so ridiculous as to be worthy of being silly mode only and simultaneously is grossly overpowered/the least interesting way to win fights in this game.

It says that you perform a melee attack at 200% damage. I suppose I could test it with that sword the drider gave me. Hmmmm.
 
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I feel like the lust side of combat needs more fleshing out. As it is it's just really....boring? By comparison. As is it's just a different damage type that *ignores armor, health, and shielding*. It's really op and thus boring to kill enemies with. Unless the enemy happens to be a robot, an animal, otherwise non sapient, or else not fuckable. In which case it does nothing at all.
 
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As someone who studied Latin, it is my sacred duty to be anal and point out that the traditional plural of the English word bonus is bonuses. Also, I believe the singular bonus is the most applicable word for the original context. There is a Latin word Bonus, the nominative plural of which is Boni, however the English word bonus is not the same ontological object, and is subject to contemporary English plural morphology. On the other hand, contemporary English is very much an evolving, living language, and as such has no true rules beyond those it's users follow. As for German, I know nothing, nothing. Also, you are entirely correct about object name plurality differing between languages, not just German and English.

My duties as Grammar Nazi complete, I return you to your regularly scheduled forum. Romanes Eunt Domus.
 
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OatmealNookie said:
As someone who studied Latin, it is my sacred duty to be anal and point out that the traditional plural of the English word bonus is bonuses. Also, I believe the singular bonus is the most applicable word for the original context. There is a Latin word Bonus, the nominative plural of which is Boni, however the English word bonus is not the same ontological object, and is subject to contemporary English plural morphology. On the other hand, contemporary English is very much an evolving, living language, and as such has no true rules beyond those it's users follow. As for German, I know nothing, nothing. Also, you are entirely correct about object name plurality differing between languages, not just German and English.

My duties as Grammar Nazi complete, I return you to your regularly scheduled forum. Romanes Eunt Domus.
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I have never once in my entire life heard 'boni' and can say with certainty that the word used in English is Bonuses.
 
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mindrapist said:
I have never once in my entire life heard 'boni' and can say with certainty that the word used in English is Bonuses.
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Bonuses is aso used in german. We got two plural-forms for Bonus.
 
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