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They already introduced a mechanic that limited the amount of food one could eat at a time, which was meant to stop the use of food as healing. Maybe people got around it but I think it would be simpler to tweak that mechanic rather than introducing a whole new one.

the consuming shadow

Are you playing the Insanity version? Cause on this note, the original version didn't have mouse support. So melee attack was bound to ctrl, and you couldn't change key bindings!

What kind of sick human being thinks of a control scheme like that?

I'm pretty sure a point of hull/system damage translates to 15 points of crew damage.

This is correct.

So was just playing the Fregatidae (Fed Cruiser C) on normal and ran into probably some of the worst luck I've ever seen on the final boss.

Walked in fully decked out and confident. 4 shields, 5th level engines, fully powered artillery flak, flak 1, flak 2, hull beam, & a ion bomb to tie it up. Drone control as my last subsystem.

Then the first multi missile barrage fired and, through 45% dodge and a defense drone, all 3 shots hit. First shot hit and crippled my cockpit (which was also being hacked). Second shot hit and set fire to my shields room. After that, with 0% dodge and 3 (soon to be 2) shields the flagship proceed to bend me over and beat me like the red-headed stepchild.

Barely managed to bring things back under control and beat the first stage with three hit-points remaining. Unfortunately I had already used or lost all the repair stations. I went on to do a rather impressive 0 damage run of the 2nd stage, but on the third stage the flagship possessed my pilot. With my dodge crippled (down to 15%) from the fighting I had no chance of living through the multi-missle or super attack, and indeed I didn't.

I'm fairly certain its just a straight addition or subtraction. So in that scenario you would have a 110-60= 50% chance of bleed.

It used to be fairly easy to bleed skeletons, as they use to have "only" about 100 bleed resistance. So with one or two trinkets you could do so pretty reliably.

I use hound master as a front line bruiser. Lick wounds gives him all the toughness he needs for me.

Well cauterizing has like a 50% chance of just immediately setting it to green so its never a particularly appealing option. But yeah, now you have to get your hands on some antibiotics or royal jelly or you're screwed.

Yeah I'm still finding occultist pretty useful. The crit change to healing helped him the most considering he is tied for the highest crit chance in the game. The increased bleed change really is just to balance out with hero's increasing bleed resistances. I also generally pair him with teams that have good bleed cures/resistances anyway. His marking utility is as useful as always. Finally, I find I've been using debuffs a lot more in this version than in any previous ones. In prior versions I always ran with high damage bursty parties but in this one slow n' steady tanky parties seem a lot more viable.

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Speaking of the Occultist, the cove got released today! It seems to be the first of eldritch-heavy areas in the game. Now the occultist might actually have something to put his damage bonuses to use on.