Tease rework?

Starstruck

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Dec 11, 2015
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Could someone explain to me how Tease works now? I haven't touched the option much since the mechanics were changed before I picked the game up again and my Tech hasn't had much need to turn to that.

I'm playing with a new character concept though with a lust based build in mind for a treated cow.
 

TheShepard256

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There's a single Tease Skill that is used for all types of tease attack, equal to 100 - Libido if you have the Ice Cold perk, and equal to Libido if you don't, but it can never go above 100. Tease Skill factors into both the accuracy and damage of tease attacks; higher is better in both cases.
Along with this is that almost all clothing has several points split between Sexiness and Resolve; undergarments have 3 points, regular clothes and armour have 5. Sexiness increases Libido by an equal amount and Max Libido by half that, and increases the damage of tease attacks at four times the rate Tease Skill does. Resolve increases Willpower by an equal amount and Max Willpower by half that, increasing the chance to avoid or mitigate the damage from most enemy tease attacks (and some psionic skills) and reducing all lust damage taken (via the Lust Defense stat).

Base tease damage = 10 + (Tease Skill)/4 + Sexiness
If you want to maximise the amount of tease damage you can deal, you'll need to maximise your Sexiness and have enough base Libido to maximise your Tease Skill when that Sexiness is taken into account. Currently, the maximum possible Sexiness is 3 from lower undergarment, 3 from upper, 1 from the Rudimentary Revolver (ranged), 3 from Widow's Kiss (melee), 7 from Allure (accessory) and 8 from the Gray Goo Armour (5 base + 1 for each of chest, crotch and ass exposed), for a total of 25 Sexiness. With all of these, you'll need at least 75 base Libido. This will give you a base tease damage of 60.
However, since you'll need some way of defeating enemies who can't be defeated by lust damage, you'll probably be exchanging the Rudimentary Revolver and/or Widow's Kiss (and possibly Allure) for something else, which will reduce the tease damage you can do and increase the base Libido threshold for maximum Tease Skill (though if you're willing to switch weapons in combat, none of that matters).
You should also make your pheromone level as high as possible, since having pheromones adds 1-3 tease damage and deals pheromone damage up to your pheromone level whenever you deal tease damage. The best ways to increase pheromone level are:
  • +1 from having Allure equipped
  • +4 from each of the Pheromone Cloud (Treatment, bull version, though since you're going for Treated cow you won't be able to get this without save editing), Jungle Queen (Amazona) and Alpha Scent (Lupinol) perks
  • +5 from the Musky Pheromones perk (Laquine Ears or Lion-O's)
However, do note that tease damage is capped at 30% of the target's Max Lust plus enough to get past their Lust Defense, so if you're min-maxing tease damage you'll be wasting some damage against all but the highest Max Lust enemies. As such, I've neglected to mention more complicated or temporary methods of increasing tease damage/pheromone level (e.g. Heat/Rut, Pheromone Sweat, Painted Penis/Tits) since chances are you won't need them.