Meditation - working as intended?

[jackx]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=346818013

In case that's not clear, or you're too lazy to click on the image, thats a lvl5/rank2 Blood Angels that began this mission with 30 Pis Points (4x5+5+5) Librarian with 112 Psi Points.

How did that happen? Because Psi Point regeneration from Meditation has no cap, or at least no appropriate cap, and keeps stackign well beyond the Librarians maximum starting Psi Points.

Add to that that Meditation costs 4 AP, and does not (!) prevent the use of another psychic power in the same turn, and you have one seriously broken game mechanic.


Psychic Storm (Area) for 3 Psi Points is the icing on the cake, but even at 8 Psi Points, a higher-rank Librarian would be able to more or less perma-cast and still generate an equal or greater amount of Psi Points from Meditation.

[Birdmancer]

Oh, wow. I'd say that's not working as intended. I would imagine there's supposed to be an upper limit.

[Texonater]

The Librarian Feels So much stronger then the Sargent. Between the wall and AOE skill, he is the most powerful unit in the game.

I don't know if it's becouse he's supposed to be that strong, or becouse I don't understand how to make the Sargent stronger (for example, what is a command range, and what does the vox upgrade to expand it do).

[Birdmancer]

Texonater původně napsal:

The Librarian Feels So much stronger then the Sargent. Between the wall and AOE skill, he is the most powerful unit in the game.

I don't know if it's becouse he's supposed to be that strong, or becouse I don't understand how to make the Sargent stronger (for example, what is a command range, and what does the vox upgrade to expand it do).

It's the extra AP that the Sergeant provides for any allies in range (the glowing yellow ring around the Sergeant). At rank III it provides a constant two AP instead of one.

[rinaldop]

WOW, have I been playing the game wrong - lol I have been leveling up my Sargent and not using my Librarian unless the mission uses two squads. Obviously, you cannot use them both on the same squad, correct?

[Birdmancer]

rinaldop původně napsal:

WOW, have I been playing the game wrong - lol I have been leveling up my Sargent and not using my Librarian unless the mission uses two squads. Obviously, you cannot use them both on the same squad, correct?

Correct. Also, you can get the Battle Hero skill that allows a normal Terminator to add AP like the Sergeant.

[G\[T]/]

Add to that that Meditation costs 4 AP, and does not (!) prevent the use of another psychic power in the same turn.. --->

Yep, it's lame

[Zuggi]

Doubt it's working as intended, will have the team take a look.

[jackx]

Thank you for having the team look into it. :)

I almost wish I hadn't discovered this, even though I didn't put it to use in combat (I only discovered it when my Librarian was standing around bored while other terminators moved to the objective), it's soured my entire BA playthrough.