survivability perk

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Bigboyjarvis wrote:

This is going to sound mean, but this is ultimately a skill issue. There is no point in this game where you are forced to use any pickups other than ammo, and even then certain class perks refill your ammo reserve. You can complete the hardest difficulties, sometimes with no issues, by not picking up stims, relics, or grenades. This all comes down to learning the parry/dodge system and knowing when to not just throw yourself into a big group of enemies, as well as prioritizing enemies. The item pickups are only there to make the game easier for you and take stress away from upcoming parts of the mission.

how is it a skill issue if the issue isn't even about challenge level? it is about how the game feels, and as you've mentioned, forces the player to play less aggressively and never take risk. even if being inventory reliant is not required, the game still incentivizes the player to be inventory reliant, and that's what matters.

The character skill is not called an ultimate so I don't understand why you are using that terminology, on top of that the deliberate choice to make HP harder to recover in SM2 compared to SM1 is balanced by the fact you play around armor, roll to dodge incoming fire and have both melee and ranged options, as well as gun strikes to quickly recover armor and execute enemies.

The game is balanced as is, if you want to play SM1 then play SM1 and stop complaining that SM2 is not the same way that a 13 year old game, which was created during a very different era of game design.

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Metis wrote:

The character skill is not called an ultimate so I don't understand why you are using that terminology, on top of that the deliberate choice to make HP harder to recover in SM2 compared to SM1 is balanced by the fact you play around armor, roll to dodge incoming fire and have both melee and ranged options, as well as gun strikes to quickly recover armor and execute enemies.

The game is balanced as is, if you want to play SM1 then play SM1 and stop complaining that SM2 is not the same way that a 13 year old game, which was created during a very different era of game design.

it's just a stupid word. call it whatever. what does dodging and parrying compensating the lack of swordsman's zeal have to do with removing self-reliance by introduction of stimulants, relics, down system, and long-cooldown abilities? they could at least replace those with a bit more of self-sustainability.