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Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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PREDATION mutations are white elephants #74285

Open osuphobia opened 5 months ago

osuphobia commented 5 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

PREDATION mutations are white elephants. All of these mutaions are post-threshold, and to obtain mutations in this chain, you need to get CARNIVORE first (or CARNIVORE_FAKE for URSINE). Furthermore, if you are not LUPINE, final mutaions in this chain will also give you INT penalty. With the high price paid, all your character can get are only: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/blob/26960ee03550dded3ba0123562fb92f8df5228f7/doc/JSON_FLAGS.md?plain=1#L403-L406 ...which seems pity to me.

Solution you would like.

"As one on top of the food chain", what you need are not only to learn combat skill faster (and less likely to forget them) and to get some morale bonus from eating and killing, but also the ability to fight better with your skills. I think a reasonable approach is to give characters with PREDATION mutations the ability to learn weak point proficiencies faster, suffer less from lack of certain proficiency, and get more bonus when knowing certain weak point.

Describe alternatives you have considered.

Directly give character attack bouns without the aid of weak point system?

Additional context

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ADekema commented 5 months ago

Maybe predator mutations should give you access to a special mutant martial art? One the forcusses on using your natural weaponry with your instincts to score more criticals on stuff like throats and things.

osuphobia commented 5 months ago

Maybe predator mutations should give you access to a special mutant martial art? One the forcusses on using your natural weaponry with your instincts to score more criticals on stuff like throats and things.

This could also be a solution, but there are already some very useful martial arts existing, then again, it will be a dilemma of either the martial art be too OP or another white elephant.

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