Strong Arms bone charm has no effect?

[Dr. Peppermint]

I found the strong arms bone charm and broke it down so I could craft it into other charms and I stacked it four times, but choking seems to be the exact same speed. Anyone else experience this?

[Dr. Peppermint]

In fact, I just tested it and its actually way slower WITH the bonecharm on. WTF?

[Himax]

Not only that, but it doesn't work even on a charm boosted to 4x.
Send Bethesda a ticket; this is a big bug.

[westconsonite]

Strong arms is super bugged. I sent a report and would suggest that everyone else does too.
My findings:
Just choke out: 3.26s
Strong arms equiped 4.25s
Strong arms X4 equiped 6.1s

(These were just me using a stopwatch on my phone, so not super accurate, but still...)

[[TH]-ShockBlade]

This same thing is happening to me.

Equipped it, no change.
Made a 4 part charm all Strong Arm, no change.
Made 4 seperate Strong Arm charms, no change.

after spending nearly 7 hours so far getting every charm i could in hopes of this dropping for my nonlethal run then finding out its broken is very upsetting..

[JakHammer]

Dude! I just came here to post about this but thought I better search first. Did the same thing with my phone and timed it and it was a full second slow with the bone charm!

[Chrom]

Yup, same experience. Real bummer, I'd just gotten excited about my perfect nonlethal BC build. Damn

[aleinn]

yeah i noticed this too. a shame

[bobjobob08]

Originally posted by westconsonite:

Strong arms is super bugged. I sent a report and would suggest that everyone else does too.
My findings:
Just choke out: 3.26s
Strong arms equiped 4.25s
Strong arms X4 equiped 6.1s

(These were just me using a stopwatch on my phone, so not super accurate, but still...)

I measured about the same times on the Xbox One. Apparently this bug is across multiple platforms.

[Vengeful James]

Same here to ♥♥♥♥!!!

[Breach]

Yes, known bug, acknowledged by Harvey Smith. Will be likely fixed in 1.2.

[Vengeful James]

Well, guess I'm not replaying it until next week then... :/

[dygdar]

still not fixed in 1.2


Having a lot of fun regardless.

[Alpacalypse]

I was wondering this too. I loved it in D1 because I was nonlethal. But, it seems to do nothing even when combo'd 3 or 4 times via crafting.

[TR-Jaybles]

I worked around the the Strong Arms bug: Take the Black Bone charm called Separation Trauma and Upgrade the Mind Control Spell so you can jump from target to target. And you can clean up whole squares as the targets will drop unconcious after you leave 'em for another one.

To get the Bone Charm you need to Knock Stilton unconcious and alter the present when in his mantion's Back Yard. The charm can then be found in the present near the boat that will take you out of the level. Remember to take all Bonecharms and Runes before you alter the Present though or they will disapear since that timeline no longer exists after knocking Stilton out.

[THE REAL SLENDERMAN]

It's a shame as well, I experience this problem and the only thing causing it is someone probably put a + instead of a - when programming the strong arms bone charm. Nothing a simple patch wouldn't fix. You could find it in the game files, but you risk messing up your save file.