I had some time to play this weekend and decided to do the most annoying quests - the fight club ones. I remember not even bothering with them in 1.31 because of all the savescumming I had to do to win, now I'm playing a netrunner with 4 body, no combat skills and the quests feel like an actual videogame.
Things that have been changed:
-No more hitscanning
-No more endless stamina for the enemies
-Being able to break an enemy's combo
-Being able to stop an enemy when it's attacking
-Removed level scaling
Levels 1-35 all the fight club quests were marked as Very Dangerous so I went there only when they were deemed "normal". I'm sure I'm a faggot filthy casual but who the fuck cares?
With a 4 body character and no points spent into melee and no gorilla arms, punches do between 4 and 7% damage to the enemies. Crits with the Short Circuit cyberhack can take between 40 and 45%. The AI has been improved and all fights feel different:
-The Twins try a strategy of tiring you out. If one is on the left, the other one comes from the right. If one is in front and finished their combo, the other one is prepared to hit you. Their guard can be broken and their punches can be interrupted. You can tank all their hits but the second hit of the 3 hit combo usually connects through your guard. 2 hits could do me in and I was unlucky enough that they managed to hit me in succession a few times. Otherwise, once I got their pattern, they were no problem. I could even toy with them for a little while to see how the AI reacts.
-The valentino. This guys is a bruiser and even weaker than the twins. He will try to activate the sandevistan to outflank you. The only way I could dodge was with the double jump. It was kind of fun. Otherwise, I stopped his 3 hit combo with a heavy punch 100% of the time and with 2 crits he went down, he was the weakest of the group.
-Rhino: don't fuck with her. She is the only enemy I could never break the guard of. No heavy punches, no light punches, nothing. She never rushed, she never hitscanned, she slowly circled me and I didn't even bother to test if one light punch could do me in. I'm fairly sure she can break any guard. Still, they made her very slow and methodical. Dodge, dodge and dodge. I could score a few criticals with the short circut proc and that was it but she could take a lot of hits. I liked this fight the most because the AI behaved like you would expect from her, having an iron guard and finishing it all with one punch.
-Buck, the one with the rifle. He was a bit lukewarm to me. He still has a a 3 hit combo that can cover half of the arena but it's slower and you can dodge it now. His jackhammer arm is like Rhino's punch. It can go through everything so if you want to counter him, you need to do it in the first hit. He is faster than her though but nothing special. After he cheats, I jumped in the air, started hovering and cast short circuit to kill half of his crew. Good times.
I still haven't received the invitation to fight the Champion but I'm guessing he will be fast as Cezar and with Rhino's defense and strength.
Anyways, these quests finally feel fun to play and can be done with a non-specialized character. Good on CDPR, although a bit too late.
