Machete losing sharpened blade bonus?

[Giant Space Hamster]

Has anyone else noticed machetes losing the sharpened blade upgrade? I have had it happen twice now and I don't have any more sharpening stones. It's not clear to me what caused this or if it's a bug.

[stretch]

I have heard of it but not seen it.
I found several sharpened machetes in or around the Twin Manors @ L 18.

Also be aware that there could be a bug if you are wielding a sharpened machete when you claim the Composite Machete from the Tinker in Ille Morat. It is possible my sharpened one went blunt just before this. As far as I am aware I had no other machete on my team and it requires one as payment but it did not take the machete, the wielded machete stayed but went blunt.
Coincidence and just bad timing or a bug? Not sure.

[fRodos_]

yeah, it happend to me, with a regular knife losing it's sharpened blade upgrade.

[Giant Space Hamster]

I managed to get a save file just before losing the sharpened status and submitted it via the bug report tool. Unfortunately, once it's ready to trigger, it seems like there is no way to avoid it. Reloading the save always causes the next melee attack with the machete to lose its sharpened status. I briefly wondered if maybe it was intentional, but the quality is still at 100% and it's a pretty new machete so that doesn't seem likely. At least it should be easier for the devs to identify form my save since it is 100% reproducible.

[Null Winter]

I figured that it was intentional, since a vegetation blade being repeatedly used to cut through things it wasn't meant to (armor, flesh, bone, etc.) would wear a finely sharpened edge out quickly.

Reality aside, it's a real kick in the crotch to anyone doing a melee build, since you can't have blades be both sharpened and weighted at the same time, there are only 4 tradeable melee weapons in the game with 2 being unique quest rewards, sharpening stones and balancing weights are some of the rarest drops, and guns never have to bother with their mods breaking down or needing new batteries on all their fancy laser pointers.

[Giant Space Hamster]

Yeah, the main reason I think it's not intentional is because of how quickly it seems to happen. It hasn't even dropped any efficiency yet, still at 100%. That seem too fast to be intentional. It's possible the bug is that it happens too quickly but I agree with your assessment of the rarity of sharpening stones and it would feel really bad if it's intentional.

[Dre G Writer]

Is it like armor with the plates, where you'd lose the extra protection after a certain number of hits???

[Null Winter]

Originally posted by Dre G Writer:

Is it like armor with the plates, where you'd lose the extra protection after a certain number of hits???

The plates explicitly say that they are meant to do that and have a counter for it, while the machete sharpening doesn't make it wholly clear if it's intentional or not.