Perks balancing — Rick Henderson Steam update #93224

Since i want a stronger feeling of importance of perk selection so you can actually make a categorized build, i improved some of the perks. Shield...

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Rick Henderson (1023790)
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patch note
Published
5 February 2021 - 13:55:24 UTC
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Since i want a stronger feeling of importance of perk selection so you can actually make a categorized build, i improved some of the perks. Shield Overload now adds +100 damage to shield damage instead of 50 (default is 75 for Ben, 100 for Rick, 125 for Thoraxx) Shield Battery now adds +2 seconds to shield duration instead of +1 second (default is 0.75 seconds for Ben, 1 second for Rick, 1,25 seconds for Thoraxx) Speed Freak now adds +0.2 speed to ship (default speeds are 1.1 for Ben, 1.0 for Rick, 0.9 for Thoraxx) I believe that previous values were too small to make a difference and I hope these changes will improve the importance of perk selection and enable some cool ship builds in longer games like boosting the shield to last 10 seconds, make the ship go very VERY fast or make the shield damage extremely devastating. Also, horizontal speed of ranks is lowered from a maximum of 1.5 t...

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