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More details, please?

Magnifico 09 Sep 2009 01:41

I've just burned a bunch of adventures trying to get this technique, so far to no avail. I tried pumping my stealth power, wearing the glasses, and using a stealth deck. No go while not etheric, no go while etheric either. I tried using the Cruel Slash technique—nothing. Swapping in pressed slacks for scaled pants didn't help, nor did switching out my hand of glory for an old scalpel. Were you using other psycho equipment like the strange watch? Anything else you were or weren't doing that might explain how you got it?

man mobile 09 Sep 2009 02:52

Wow. That's super weird, since I got 3 in like 7 combats.
I had no other psycho equip, I was using a melée deck, and so I had tons of melée power and minimal stealth power. I may have used cruel slash, I had those in my deck. The only other thing psychopathy I did was to eat the corpses.

Equipment: shining glasses, handcrafted blade, gel shield, reactive gang jacket, reactive pants, tzr chipdeck. Effects: gang beatdown. Deck: 3 ghoul bite, 1 brutality, 3 beatdown, 4 crushing punch, 4 power strike.

EDIT: got it from killing two dockhands with power strike-crushing punch

Last edited on 09 Sep 2009 03:02 by man mobile Show more

Fr00d 09 Sep 2009 07:55

Over the last couple of days I have killed tons of things with the shining glasses equipped (and the rest of the psycho items for that matter) and have never got any Psychotic Breaks. Or the Technique. (And I'm sorry for that lame joke.)
Anyway, I've just put on the outfit you posted and used power strike-crushing punch a lot, but I didn't get the technique.
Also, when I looked at your skills, I saw that you apparently hear Haunting Cries, which I don't, and that might potentially make you psychotic.

TheWyrd 09 Sep 2009 10:33

I have no haunting cries, but I do now have Psychotic Break. :)

I think it has to do with your victim(s). I put on man mobile's outfit, melee deck and went to kill a dockhand (and a security guard at the same time) and voila. :)

Going to use stealth tech and gear to kill some innocent people now to see if I can get more.

EDIT: Killed two dockhands, no etheric active, stealth outfit (all equipment except glasses different from man mobile's) and stealth techniques (acid splash, switchblade, serpent strike). No eating either. Got another Psychotic break.
Did not get it when I killed a single security guard.

MORE EDIT: Unless the "(or more)" bonus is significant, the technique seems somewhat underwhelming compared to acid splash

EVEN MORE EDIT: Got Psychotic break from a mushroom man scout. I also got a different (opening) combat message when I attacked it with Psychotic break, and did over 10 damage more than I did with it in other combats where I also opened with it, but did not get the laughing wildly combat message.

EDITRAVAGANZA: Got psychotic break from a rat too. I guess all fights where you specifically choose to attack when you really don't need to or something count for getting Psychotic break.

Last edited on 09 Sep 2009 11:25 by TheWyrd Show more

Fr00d 09 Sep 2009 12:10

I got Psychotic Break from
Docks -> Fishing Tales -> They Must Die
-> Pile of Crates -> Charge In
Sewers -> Rat -> Charge the Rat
Slags -> Gate out of the Slags -> Kill him anyway
Midgard Biotech -> Quartet of Doctors -> Death to All
Midgard Warehouse -> Workers on break -> charge in
-> Clipboard Dilemma -> Beat him
But not for
Southside Park -> Ex-Fang -> Kill him
-> Third Eye Ganger -> Jump him

Magnifico 10 Sep 2009 21:09

I wouldn't be surprised if the message you get correlates with how much (if any) of the "and more" you do damage-wise. Maybe the number of Quad Psycho outfit bits you're wearing and/or the number of instances of the psychotic break technique you know influence this? Did you adjust your outfit at all before you got the different message, Wyrd?

EDIT: Never mind. I see this has already been spaded. When I try to delete the post, it tells me I need to be a moderator. Shouting "BUT I AM A MODERATOR, YOU STUPID MACHINE!" avails me not, so y'all can just be amused by my cluelessness instead.

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TheWyrd 10 Sep 2009 21:30

I wouldn't say spaded out really, I should have kept notes for that.
In full psycho gear and not at all psycho gear I've gotten the other opener when attacking innocent targets with psychotic break and did noticeably more damage with it than other fights with the exact same gear and bonuses. Got the another opener against an innocent target (friendly guard at the docks) and for more damage as well, not sure if I was wearing full gear then, will check now.

EDIT: Got the laugh and laugh without wearing any Psycho gear. Only got it against innocent targets. It might be +stealth bonus related…

Yeah, that seems to be it, no stealth bonus and get the manic grin message, with +14 I get laugh and laugh.

EDIT 2: Never get any opener but "you snap etc." against non-innocents regardless of gear. "Laugh and laugh" and "manic grin" definitely indicate more bonus damage. Not sure if the "laugh and laugh" bonus is higher or indicating something else.

What is this game turning us into?! Ghouls reveling in the slaughtering of the meek!

Last edited on 10 Sep 2009 22:31 by TheWyrd Show more

(account deleted) 10 Sep 2009 23:43

What is this game turning us into?! Ghouls reveling in the slaughtering of the meek!

drug addicts, hackers… so much negatives. Need to do more good deeds… any healing techs around?

Vholes 11 Sep 2009 03:43

EDIT: Never mind. I see this has already been spaded. When I try to delete the post, it tells me I need to be a moderator. Shouting "BUT I AM A MODERATOR, YOU STUPID MACHINE!" avails me not, so y'all can just be amused by my cluelessness instead.

I think we're forum moderators, not wiki moderators? But that gives us some wiki powers regardless? Or is it visa versa? The system's confusing.

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In the beginning, men were mortal.

Kinak 11 Sep 2009 03:48

Wiki but not forum. Unless something strange happened.

Thankfully, we haven't needed any forum modding at all yet. The most strenuous thing I've done is moving the giant suggestions thread over to that subforum when I created it.

Cheers!
Kinak

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