PC Sharpshooter's Ranger doesn't work with cross-perk weapons and the 9mm pistol

[Mises]

Category: Code

Reproducibility: Always

Summary: The Sharpshooter's Ranger skill doesn't work with cross-perk weapons and the 9mm pistol.

Description: I guess it can't be about the damage threshold needed to stun ZEDs. The Magnum revolver can't stun a Scrake, even when shooting as fast as possible, whereas the Winchester which deals conisderably less damage does it with one shot.

Online/Offline: Both

Here's a video showing the issue:
https://streamable.com/2crv3

 

[hunter_hunted]

"During Zed time, your head shots with perk weapons will stun any Zed."
The description is wrong/outdated here. It implies an effect always and with every perk weapon, but in actuality it just multiplies any existing stun power greatly.
As the 9mm and crossperk revolvers have no base stun power, there's nothing to multiply.

 

[Mises]

Thanks for the explanation.

Also, the skill should be changed so that the stun power is added, not multiplied. This way it would work with every Sharpshooter weapon.

 

[Foster Parent]

So, a feature request more than a bug.

 

[s5yn3t]

So, a feature request more than a bug.

or both?
changing so the effect matches description

 

[®omano]

Actually it does what description says. Works with PERK weapons, not cross perk weapons, and 9mm is off perk weapon I think.


edit: 9mm in off-perk weapon as shown on this screenshot http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1309033964 where it is the only weapon which belong to this OFF-PERK category.

 

[hunter_hunted]

OFF-PERK category.

That just means the dual 9mm doesn't have a main perk - Both single and dual count as on-perk for sharp as it still gets the boost from all the other skills (adds rack-em-up etc).
None of the skill descriptions distinguish between original and cross-perk. Even knife gets the damage boosts and can trigger zed-time on headshots even though it won't add rack-em-up.

The main issue is the description says it always stuns - which isn't the case for high resistance enemies:
EBR still needs 2 shots for scrakes, winchester/spx 2 for FP. Even crossbow won't stun raged FP in one hit.

Changing the second part to indicate it multiplies/increases the stun power would fix both discrepancies.

Such as:
"During zed-time, headshots with perk weapons have 400% increased stun power."

Or use the vague style from gunslinger's 410% knockdown/stumble skill:

"During zed-time, shooting Zeds in the head with perk weapons massively increases stun power"