Sync Disks and their choices

[Shurenai]

So far, Sync disks seem to have a lot of interesting tidbits to them- But they fail at two things spectacularly from what I'm seeing.

One, For dang near every single disk, One of the available options is WILDLY better than what the alternatives offer.

And two, For the like, two sync disks that might actually offer compelling decisions, one of the options is a hands down defacto non negotiable winner anyway. You really WANT the effect of both, But you're forced to choose and that choice is going to pick the non-negotiable winner.

To pose some examples:
For "One option is wildly better than the alternatives":
Spartan Insurance. Depending on your play style, One of these three options is going to be your go-to, There's no discussion in the matter. If you like stealing things, you'll take gold legal cover, If you fight and die a lot, Gold medical cover is your go to.

Dove+ Physiological Perception is wildly better than the alternative- The other option would be GREAT to have for flavor. But the boon provided by the first is so huge that you have to willfully screw yourself over if you want the other effect.

Beauty, where you can choose between shop discounts or raising the chance people give info for free. Both effects are kindof nice- But if you really stop and think about it for about 30 seconds, Charm, raising the chance people give info for free, is better in basically every way. I don't know about you, but, I rarely buy things from the shops anyway- And even when I do, It's an item worth like, 50-100 credits like handcuffs or a camera. On the other hand, every time you want to buy info off an NPC it costs 50/100/200 credits. If you take Charm, It will literally pay for what the discount would have over time.


And for ones that actually might offer compelling decisions but one of the options is a defacto choice anyway we have:
Community. More money for jobs... Or more inventory capacity. Frankly, I can do an extra job and make that extra 10/20% easily, But extra inventory? I'm starved for it. Even though the extra money for less jobs would be a genuinely good choice otherwise, I'm going to pick the inventory bonus every single time because the limited inventory in this game is aggravating.
Similarly, you have:
Constitution. You can no longer get cold/smelly/tired... Or more inventory capacity. Just like with the Community disk, It's not even a question for me- Inventory bonus, hands down. Lemme be clear, I REALLY want to no longer get cold, like ever again. No smelly would be nice too, No tired I could take or leave since I've yet to actually get tired- Though I occasionally sleep for the bonus anyway. But having to give up what seems to be a painfully precious inventory increase in favor of not getting cold/smelly/tired? Nu-uh. Not happening. inventory bonus 100% of the time.


TL;DR: All this to say, The balancing between disk bonuses is totally shot. I would literally rather have all these separate choices be their own unique sync disks that I have to find from which I can pick only 18-20~ bonuses, instead of having to condemn bonuses I'd like to try and have for fun to the garbage because the other option on the disk is just that much better.

Currently, we can't even equip the same disk twice, So when you pick one over the other, the other just is never going to be yours unless you give up the bonus you have- Which in most cases just is not worth doing.

And the few times it IS worth doing, it's only worth doing because the much better option runs it's course and stops being beneficial- Like the one for reading books/book series. Eventually you're going to have found all/nearly all the books, so there's no reason to keep that bonus and instead you switch to the littering centric side of that sync disk.

[BANANA PHONE]

+1 add more sync disks.
Personally I only value Beauty, all inventory spaces, extra security breakers recovery time + no fall damage. These are huge game changer modifications that I always find useful in every situation.

All the extra bits for a few credits, or status condition negation, even the hospital cover options I do not care for, I can play around all those.
Also the bait Kola sync disk is funny the first time, but every other game you load up, you know you won't ever take that disk so it has no replay value.

[Sky Wizard]

I've fallen through the floor too many times to not take the fall damage option. Shame too, because i kick down a lot of doors and the other option would save me so much time.

[Isabelle]

Originally posted by Sky Wizard:

I've fallen through the floor too many times to not take the fall damage option. Shame too, because i kick down a lot of doors and the other option would save me so much time.

What happens when you hit the water?

ive fallen through the floor plenty, but never with that one sync disk.

[Sky Wizard]

You end up in a hospital bed. Also I was once pushed through a wall and fell 8 stories.
Luckily I had the fall immunity that time so I just went straight back up and contemplated smacking the otherwise perfectly innocent civvie across the face with a gemsteader.