Living Bomb damage decreased?

[LazyMinerva]

Last night the large living bomb I bought said 672 damage (which is admittedly very high for the point i am at) but sometime between then and this morning it went down to saying 192 damage, and it is dealing reduced damage. Someone in the discord said to ask about it here?

Apparently its supposed to scale with tech level, is it maybe not working right since the base damage increase in the de-bombening patch?

[LazyMinerva]

If relevant my current tech level is 10, if that is perhaps a point in the scaling?

[leif.ian.anderson]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm... looking into it.

Edit: What's thou's engineering level? (engineering affects bombs twice as much as tech does)

[LazyMinerva]

While you're here there is a typo in prepare metal's description, it says "defese" instead of "defense"

Absolutely adore the game so far, great work and I am glad to have found it.

[leif.ian.anderson]

Murda!

[LazyMinerva]

Murda!

[LazyMinerva]

Is engineering Golem Level? If so 9

[Tekker]

In any case I didn't think the damage should be going down unless you loaded the game and somehow didn't advance tech/engineering in a way that you had before loading.

[leif.ian.anderson]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm... blood blood blood... blood blood...... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

That damage neduction may have occurred due to the debombening patch actually taking effect.

Good day human! Hopefully this helped :(

[Tekker]

Was there a limitation keeping it from taking effect up until then? A bypass to it if you're too low level?

[LazyMinerva]

Ah, that would make some sense. 672 damage was frankly far too much for my point in progression anyway, but I wanted to report the oddity at least. If anything I am glad for a reason to use anything other than bombs in combat again! Have a lovely day.

[leif.ian.anderson]

Murda!

(the bomb formula calculates at the start of battle, so loading in from an old save before going into battle didn't display the correct bomb numbers)

[Tekker]

Maybe add the calculation check to the shop menu so it doesn't lie since that's the menu they saw the damage on. Easy to do for living bombs merchant, more annoying for all others.

[LazyMinerva]

This save game started after the debombening patch, if that is relevant. If not, no further issues.

Edit: as in I hadn't been playing at all before that patch

[Tekker]

Probably has a default that is recalculated after you do a battle. Previous save probably hasn't done combat between load and shop.