Do Psychic Abilities such as Psychic Assault count as Area Attacks?

[Verde]

I'm trying to come up with a Meleepath build and was wondering if Talents like Crowd Kill would apply to my Psyker Abilities.

[Verde]

Okay, so this is a good news/bad news type of situation. I used Toy Box to test this myself and apparently Psychic Assault DOES COUNT as an Area Attack and the bonus from Crowd Kill does apply to each cast.

Bad news is Crowd Kill seems bugged and the bonus it provides is inconsistent. It's supposed to add +x Damage/per affected enemy, when in reality it adds separate and different Damage bonuses to each affected target.

For example, my character with a +3 Str Bonus cast Psychic Assault on 4 enemies and 1 ally so 5 targets in total, the Damage bonus from Crowd Kill varied from +3 to +15 between each affected target.
Then I reloaded the fight and cast Psychic Assault on 1 enemy and 1 ally, the enemy took +6 damage from Crowd Kill, while the ally received a nonsensical +12 as if I used the Ability on 4 enemies.

There doesn't seem to be any logic to how the bonus is applied, but at least it works, kind of.

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