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The rapid punch and rapid slash attacks for Bionic Combatives have the exact same damage and speed modifiers as well as the same requirements to perform*. They can probably be merged into a single technique with appropriate flavor text like "you quickly attack %s" now that Bionic Combatives is a purely unarmed style rather than the hybrid armed/unarmed style** it was when it was first introduced.

Edit: *Basically the same, at least. The only difference is that the slash requires an allowed weapon to perform, with you basically making rapid attacks twice as often with bionic claws or the monomolecular blade as you did with your fists. If it's for balance, they can just increase the weighting of the new technique like Fencing does with most of its own techniques to neutralize the default rapid attack of its allowed weapons.

**IIRC, most of the techniques for Bionic Combatives used to work with just about any melee weapon you decided to wield while it was active, so impaling and cleaving zombies with a bit of rebar or a manhole cover was possible.

Edit2: Actually, I don't think unarmed weapons were a thing yet when Bionic Combatives was introduced. That's why the bashing skill is still linked to the cestus, razorbar katar, and steel knuckle recipe.

Autodocs could use more medical functions so they actually live up to their name. Maybe add tapeworm/brain parasite removal and limited healing ability, like Mr. Stem Cell except it doesn't melt your entire skeleton 1/6 of the time.

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Well first aid kits have disinfectant in them so I assume they can still clear bites. How much stuff in the base game can clear infections now that first aid kits cant?

It's down to antibiotics, royal jelly and spontaneously developing the Infection Immunity mutation.

You could also hope and/or pray that you somehow survive the infection and/or bite. I've seen that happen, too. Something like "Your bite wound feels better" or the infection just disappearing and changing to "Recovering from infection".

I think the default chance of that is less than a coin flip, especially if you've been doing anything that might negatively impact your hidden health stat.

Edit: Being Infection Resistant doubles that according to the wiki, but there may have been some changes since that was last updated.

Wait, do you mean full infections or just the initial deep bite? Because infected wounds were supposed to be beyond the point of using disinfectant.

Edit: I also told everyone about the medical supply overhaul they were planning a while back.

Since healing items seem to be getting their effects turned into an over time effect as well, what's next on the list? Alcohol? Sleep medicine? Stimulants?

Can plant mutants safely eat cow pies or is that still WIP?

Yes.  It should, as long as the weapon is on the approved list for the martial arts.  stuckins should happen as often as usual for piercing weapons.  Youre reading too much into it.

Old public code is old and public.

Bloat happens.

Krav Maga only has tonfa variants in its approved weapon list so I think you're not looking deeply enough.

The approved list for a martial art is just so the approved weapons can be used with its techniques anyways so it isn't really all that relevant.

Edit: Additionally, it seems that the stuck-in mechanic was removed two years ago.

So is there a difference between stab and pierce damage anymore or does the damage bonus from Krav Maga affect a morningstar or spear the same way it affects knives? Because at some point, the display for pierce and stab damage got unified into just pierce damage, so the only way to differentiate between the two is to look at the item directly in the files or remember what item had which damage type.

Since healing items seem to be getting their effects turned into an over time effect as well, what's next on the list? Alcohol? Sleep medicine? Stimulants?