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After playing this game for a while now, does anyone else feel Piercing ruins combat, and the game in general? Piercing is very common in weapons, mods and perks. It is quiet easy to stack a weapon with it. All my players currently have at least Piercing 2, some have higher, on all their main weapons. It has made any armor DR obsolete. I have players using Melee builds that literally do crits every attack. They have annihilated Legendary creatures in just a few turns the way they did their builds, but it all revolves around Piercing.

Everything has been done within the rules, so I don't fault them at all, but as a GM I find it hard to want to come up with cool stories and missions knowing all they are going to do is rush the enemies, slaughter them before they even get to go, and move on. It is to the point where when I create enemies for the campaign, I also have to use nothing but Piercing to even stand a chance and do any damage to their characters. Nothing so far has been a challenge to them. Even facing enemies with Power Armor is nothing to them.

Has anyone else noticed this, and if so, how do you deal with it? To me, it should have been like Vicious and not been stackable.

Hello,

So I have two questions about how effects work when it comes to armor mods. First, if I put Weighted on both of my arm pieces (the effect is Melee and Unarmed attacks gain Piercing 1) do they stack and those attacks now have Piercing 2?

Second question is, does the armor mod effect cover the whole body, or just that specific piece? For example, the Padded mod for Torso has the effect "+2 to all damage resistances vs. blast weapons" and BioCommMesh, also for Torso, has the effect "Chems last twice as long." Reading through all the effects, some clearly cover more then just the body part they upgrade, but some aren't as clear to me, like the +X to DR. Does it clearly cover this in any of the rule books?

So my group and I have been reading through the core book, which is poorly written in so many ways, and we are trying to get a definitive answer on death. If a PC goes to 0HP during combat, they cant do anything, are injured and have to do saving throws and all that.

My question is, once combat is over, if they are still at 0HP, are they officially dead, or does any surviving PCs have the ability to bring them back like they do during combat? Either way, is there a place in any of the rule books that clarifies this any better or are we to assume its like some other TTRPGs and when combat is over your PC is dead? Thank you for any help with this.