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So sneak attacks on ps4 are obviously broken

joshjda
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Title says everything lost well over 13k damage in sneak attacks in pve am not getting sneak damage boost it is essentially a heavy attack while crouched nothing more.
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    joshjda wrote: »
    Title says everything lost well over 13k damage in sneak attacks in pve am not getting sneak damage boost it is essentially a heavy attack while crouched nothing more.

    Check the patch notes. The change is intentional. Sneak attack no longer grants extra damage bonus but still has 100% crit chance.
  • joshjda
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    Before anyone bothers me with nonsense yes champ points are spent i accounted for the 25% heavy attack damage loss (with bows) (champ points round down so i will as well) 56 points in physical weapon expert at 28% 66 in master at arms for 22% 7 in precise strikes for 3% 7 in mighty for 2% the outcome should be the same as before maybe a small loss not 13k.
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    Lol
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  • Turelus
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    Sneak attacks no longer grant a bonus to Critical Damage when used against other players. Sneak attacks will continue to guarantee a Critical Strike and stun the target, and will also still grant a bonus to Critical Damage when used against monsters.
    From patch notes, it could be this no? Although that's a lot of damage to lose.

    Also yeah shouldn't be in PvE, so bug maybe?
    Edited by Turelus on June 6, 2017 6:15PM
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  • joshjda
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    Tbh why don't they just remove nightblade4 from the game remove all racial passive reduce character slots to 1 and be done with it i've had about enough of this *** horse ***.
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    Lol
  • joshjda
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    I was under the impression that the damage was only removed vs players not npcs but idk it's stupid whole character turned to garbage and all the fun taken out of it.
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    joshjda wrote: »
    Title says everything lost well over 13k damage in sneak attacks in pve am not getting sneak damage boost it is essentially a heavy attack while crouched nothing more.

    Was hitting the target dummy for 119k before update. 13k is a drop in the bucket.
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    joshjda wrote: »
    I was under the impression that the damage was only removed vs players not npcs but idk it's stupid whole character turned to garbage and all the fun taken out of it.

    ^ THIS!!!! The change was not sposta affect PVE, only PVP. This needs to be confirmed.
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    joshjda wrote: »
    I was under the impression that the damage was only removed vs players not npcs but idk it's stupid whole character turned to garbage and all the fun taken out of it.

    Maybe you're new here, idk, but they don't balance one or the other. Any change they make affects both pve and pvp.
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    13k is the differnce between being able to 1 hit a standard monster in freeroam and gain invisibilty on the heavy bow shot and having it live by next to nothing. Completely stupid shadow strike has no purpose now and those 120 cp wasted.
    Edited by joshjda on June 6, 2017 6:25PM
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    4269 base weapon damage while in stealth with 10% perk from rearming trap + 10% from khajit +10% from master assassin 5280 armor reduction from reaper's mark all of that only netting 30kish damage.

    Used to be around 43-44k.


    Does not make sense.
    Edited by joshjda on June 6, 2017 6:31PM
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    Royaji wrote: »
    joshjda wrote: »
    Title says everything lost well over 13k damage in sneak attacks in pve am not getting sneak damage boost it is essentially a heavy attack while crouched nothing more.

    Check the patch notes. The change is intentional. Sneak attack no longer grants extra damage bonus but still has 100% crit chance.

    Yeah no.. the change did not effect pve.
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  • joshjda
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    Sneak attacks no longer grant a bonus to Critical Damage when used against other players. Sneak attacks will continue to guarantee a Critical Strike and stun the target, and will also still grant a bonus to Critical Damage when used against monsters.
    Developer Comments:
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    Even though Sneak attacks currently have a lower Critical Damage bonus against players than against monsters, they still allow you to burst another player down in a matter of seconds without granting them enough time to react. Removing the Critical Damage bonus against players grants victims of sneak attacks more counterplay.
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    So it is broken then.
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    joshjda wrote: »
    So it is broken then.

    Could be an issue with new heavy attacks auto firing? You sure your drawing bow back the whole way?
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    Yeah tried it over 50 times spent 15k in champ menu making sure all my buffs actually worked idk why.

    The 25% loss from the bow heavy attack does not equal a 13k damage loss so idk.
    Edited by joshjda on June 6, 2017 6:41PM
  • Mossimo
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    joshjda wrote: »
    Tbh why don't they just remove nightblade4 from the game remove all racial passive reduce character slots to 1 and be done with it i've had about enough of this *** horse ***.

    Maybe then I wouldn't get 2h stamblade "PvP 1 shot builds" infesting my CoS runs pulling a solid 5k single target dps.
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