Not really in a GH mood of late, so I've not touched these for in-game performance, but checking your personal scale gubbins there are some great concepts, but I do have a few comments on the actual crunch:
Neat that you've gone for an uber-Waldo Harness set or two, glad someone liked the idea (or had it themselves) but:
- I don't think that the Actuators need to be integral right now (you can't Engineer on a personal scale). This just adds some unnecessary bloating to them.
- For the Exoskeleton, I think Class 7 Actuators may be a bit much - honestly most of the best actuators in the game are HA 05+, class 5s. I know exceptions exist, but might be worth considering.
- I've never had a harness damaged in combat ever. I wasn't even aware a worn harness could suffer damage. This may have some impact on your claims of vulnerability in the fluff, but that's up to you.
Isn't there already a Grenade Launcher addon with Blast 4? Considering how tedious reloading is, I'm not sure if a one-shot variant is much worth the trouble unless the payload lets you do a lot more than the multi-ammo version.
For your addon combos you have two Sub/Ends in the assault kit, I'm fairly sure that's going to make it show up funny (correct me if I'm wrong of course). Taking out the first End/Sub would still have both weapons in place.
I'm also pretty cautious of the potency - +1 Range, +1 DC, +1 Speed and +1 Accuracy? You've turned a laser pistol into a Laser Rifle. Upping the range on LINE weapons with the Sniper array is also insane.
Most existing Addons exist in the realm of: +1 Damage +EFFECT; +1 Speed +1 Accuracy, +2 Range.... Ranged weapons don't get any DC boosting addons at all, so this is a big hunk of power creep - Player Only power creep, since NPCs never use addons. This messes with the difficulty that's supposed to be present in the game. The same extends to a lot of the "bigger" guns you've included - it's neat having big toys, but honestly you're the only one who'll regularly play with them, there aren't enough NPCs likely to make them show up.
Equally beware of outstripping the ultimate PreZero weaponry - Antique Laser/Plasma performance is the pinnacle of in-game shooting mastery, you've topped it outright on one, you've tweaked the nose of them repeatedly (Microwave Emitter is due to be an effective DC 18 weapon with the BV update). A weapon doesn't need to be amazing to be worth including, and looking at your ranged weaponry (especially with your AddOns as well), you've gone for weapons that are just.... *more*, which would stop me at least from using them. There are some good concepts but they just need
toning hacking down with a machete to bring them into line with the rest of the game.
For example, Microwave Emitter:
BeamGun 2
Name <Scorcher>
Desig <CFMW-03>
desc <Continuous Fire Microwave emitter. Depending on time and power can be used to heat up or completely cook multiple enemies simultaneously.>
category <WEAPON MISSILE>
factions <GENERAL>
Range 4 %A microwave is not a hyper long-range sniper weapon, compare this to other, similar weapons.
type <LINE BURN> %You cook things, they burn; SCATTER basically makes the weapon a 1-square AOE, LINE already makes it an AOE, they perform the same in the system.
Mass 4 % No BV, BV is machine guns, a flamethrower type weapon is not a machine gun, it's a line.
legality 10
Acc 1
inv
PowerSource 4 %Why would you A: Need, B: Include a power source waaaaay better than Sentinel Batteries in a basic, buyable weapon?
name <Power Cell 100>
end
Also, accuracy = damage. That's the way the game works, higher your roll, the more damage your weapon deals. That means your DC 3 laser with +8 Accuracy will frequently deal more damage to a target than a Laser Cannon. I agree with the design principle that lasers should be weaker but more accurate though, but +8 Accuracy basically means your starter character with 3 Ranged Combat is hitting like a vet with 11 Ranged Combat.
If you're advancing Ultra Cells (fine in itself), I'd suggest you keep it consistent with existing maximums - half/quarter(?) weight battery of Super/Ultra cell quality. As the heaviest lone power supply (that doesn't need special harness equipment to maintain) I'm aware of is a 200 Source found specially only in dungeons - a 2 kg Ultra Cell 200 would be *plenty* of extra charge for your batteries.
Including individual non-set Carapace (seems plenty balanced and more spacesuits are always nice) just means you'll get individual components cluttering shop inventory, leave it in the set, please.
HYPER is a tag used typically for NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Giving it to a portable man-sized coilgun is so far beyond excessive I don't even.
COMPLEX/STRAIN are underused, but their existence on a weapon means that that weapon is so exhausting/complicated to use - your indian sword is useless exactly because every attack costs 10 MP.
SCATTER attacks every part of a target - it's basically a localised explosion. I don't think that any melee weapon covers the same effective behaviour of a Shotgun unless you swing it multiple times, so I'm not sure if it's appropriate to use there.
Flails are typically *less* accurate than swinging a solid object, the number of +Accuracy flails is a strange phenomena here, it's not the weapon that's accurate, it's the wielder that's skilled. Whips themselves are typically -2 Accuracy to denote that "skilled" requirement, and the fact they cannot block is more than enough of an advantage to offset it; Whips are already the best weapons in the game.
Your laser-gunsword doesn't need to have a laser pistol better than a regular laser pistol, a blade better than a regular monosword, and generally be better than a high Reputation special plot-based mission reward - the Nomos Blade. This exactly what I mean when I say "too much".
Your snake staff doesn't have the Biotech tag.
Incidentally, maybe the Bola should be a THROWN FLAIL? You can't parry it, and you could save the NONLETHAL/STONE/HAYWIRE variant for a more technological version, because regular Bolas are most certainly lethal little suckers.
Why is your Ring of Death a perception based weapon? Why does it trounce the Steel Fan so completely? The Steel Fan is the ultimate ranged melee weapon in the game.
Why is the Chakram - a deadly weapon - completely legal yet so much better that its non-bladed Boomerang equivalent?
Discharger - Magnet Token. I've just broken it to hell and back - Now you have an infinite use uber grenade. Come on, that's messed up.
Warlord Armour - And I was worried about the Tanksuit being overpowered. Have you tried this out? I'll bet you that you could run a total newbie through all ten Theles arena missions with this thing on its own. Class 10 is not "medium" armour. Class 7 is "Savin" level armour, this thing is class "tank" level armour. I'm pretty sure that you could take down an Exorg Watcher or two with one of these, and you made it *light* too.
I've not checked the mecha yet, I'll see if I can do so at some point though.
My general advice here is look at the existing files - It's okay to exceed the norm on a few items, but for the most part, consider them your maximum and don't make anything superior to them, just different. Your submission would then be much more likely to be enjoyed by everyone. The biggest mistake of an early modder is to make everything big and glorious, best in every way, but that's rarely the best way for a healthy game.
