Moonbo on 7/4/2007 at 02:15

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One thing I really felt was missing w/ the psi branch was any sort of a range of "offensive" powers. There are three offensive powers (cyrokinesis, pyrokinesis, and psi blade).

Cryo is relatively weak, pyro doesn't work on machines, and psi blade is melee only. Any thoughts on increasing the offensive reach of psi abilities instead of making them just "support" powers?


-Gelo

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Moonbo on 7/4/2007 at 14:40

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Localized pyrokinesis is essentially a weak melee weapon
Psi detonation was shoddily implemented at best (about as useful as the detection grenades)

I mean honestly, I never could play through as a psi without investing in at least several layers of either melee skills or weapons.

1) the psi offensive powers were woefully underdeveloped

2) it was very hard to switch between powers under pressure (open gui, flip around until you find the one you want), which meant that you couldn't change up what you were doing in combat situations.

A recommended psi mod would be to make more "aggressive" psi powers to balance out all the defensive/support powers, and somehow allow for hot-keying of certain powers (something akin to a drag-and-drop system like the DX tool belt) so they could be easily accessed/swapped in a hurry.

-Gelo

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But you should walk having internal dignity. Be a wonderful
person who can dance pleasantly to the rhythm of the universe.
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Nameless Voice on 7/4/2007 at 14:59

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You can assign hotkeys to psi powers using the functuon keys.
By default, they are all asigned to 'Tier 1 psi', which will toggle through all the tier 1 psi powers.
You assign a power to a function key by opening the interface and hitting shift+[function key] while the mouse is over it. Assigning a function key to one of the tiers themselves will make that function key toggle through all powers in that tier.

You can also use the 'change firing mode' key to cycle between powers in the current tier, and the 'change ammo' button to switch to menu mode and bring up the full psi power overlay.

Also, the existing psi powers become increasingly more powerful as your PSI stat increases.

I'll admit that I've never played a pure psi game (apart from my psi-sword only game), so I can't really comment overmuch on the powerfulness of the ranged psi attacks. (Hmm, something to try next time I play?)

Moonbo on 7/4/2007 at 15:20

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Hmm...good to know :cool: I wish they explained this stuff in-game somewhere...

-Gelo

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But you should walk having internal dignity. Be a wonderful
person who can dance pleasantly to the rhythm of the universe.
-Sun Myung Moon