Played some more 1.5 now and I forgot how to melee. I got the uncommon version of the slowtime ability (while maintaining the cyberdeck) and everytime I trigger the timeslow proc, my character crosses stupidly large gaps. If I time it right I can gen an omaewamo moment. I hit level 7-ish and my cyberdeck feel stronger than in the previous patch. I could 2 shot maelstrom and TC's but I don't know if I would have had the same luck if I went full swordsman.
I deffinitely need to get faster quickhacks and upload speed. I'll try to challenge myself and only upload debuffs for eyesight, traps, sonic shock, etc but no combat hacks. I got the knife throwing skill but for some fucking reason enemies don't drop knives and I refuse to buy one on principle.
With swords, the starter paraline deck, green programs and most of my perks invested in quickhacking I can't take on more than 3 guys at the same time (2 if they are gunners). It takes me 5 swings to bring someone down: 2 3hit combos, sometimes using the defensive slice followed up by a heavy attack. Interestingly enough, my level 6 ninjutsu feels stronger than on previous patches (It takes, maybe 2-3 secs more to see me).
Anyways, I'm playing with low armor and getting caught in a crossfire means I'm dead. I still don't know what I have to level up to get more defense. I see mitigation being thrown around but I don't know what it does, so far my only defensive strategy consists on killing my enemies faster than they can shoot or disable enough of them so I only have 2 people riddling me with bullets.
Pre 1.5, with 3 points in tech you could invest 1 perk point into grenadier which made V immune to the effects of their own grenades. You still could blow yourself up but in my case, I chucked a flashbang and ran towards it since I was immune. That gave me 5 secs to slice and dice that mob of enemies without risk. That perk is either gone or the devs have gone full NO FUN ALLOWED mode and put it behing 18 levels of tech. Same with the extra HP perk. It used to be behind Body 4 - so, at most you only needed to invest 1 attribute point and then you got +10/20/30% HP. For a squishy character, +30% was a godsend, especially at the highest levels, when you can spend your perk points without worrying too much. Now it's behind lvl 12 body.
What fucking retard thought of this change? If you have a high body character, you naturally have high hp, if you want to dump a few points there do it. If you want to facetank, you need those HP points asap and if you need a pick me up, it's there. Now they have removed the only advantage that perk had - fast access. Same with the critical stat squish. My sword used to give me 500% crit damage and 45% crit chance. Now that is a weapon that you can call legendary. I dread to think what they've done to my poor Satori (I'm still dicking around Watson).
I detest the NO FUN ALLOWED mentality. It's such a zoomer approach to gaming. Everything must be balanced, no weapon is more special than other, no skill is more useful than other. Fucking snowniggers, I'm the protagonist in an RPG, by the mid game I want to be able to blow a hole in the moon with my revolver if I want to. Are some skills broken? Hell yes! Let them be!
My first playthrough was spent looking at the skill descriptions and making a choice of what I wanted to upgrade. When I saw that the slav squat gave me flat 15% to crit chance at level 7 cool, I was giddy with excitement. "Go nuts!" CDPR was telling me. I honestly hope there is a mod that gives me a rollback on the stats and skills to 1.31.
And speaking of mods, here's something for the coomers, 3rd person gameplay with thicc V:
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