Best melee?

[PowerDiver]

Originally Posted by Derakon

Having recently looked at the device activation code, you're correct. Blindness has no effect. IIRC confusion halves your success rate.

I have no idea what the rule is now, but that is the old rule and it has changed.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by PowerDiver

I have no idea what the rule is now, but that is the old rule and it has changed.

Eddie is right - I re-did device activations for 3.1.2, and almost all player states have an effect. Bless and heroism give small (5%) boosts to skill, and almost all other states give penalties - but confusion is only -25% IIRC, and nothing is worse than that (heavy stun is -20%) - though they are all cumulative.

More importantly, the success algorithm is much more linear, so you don't suddenly drop from 97% success to 3%. But it's harder to reach 99% success than it used to be.

[Derakon]

Shows what I get for using old (3.1.1) source code for my references. Guess I should download a newer version. Thanks for the correction.