Ok - I am totally open to stand corrected here. But the way it seems to me now is that bonuses are NEVER applied to anything U do.
In the current Combat system we see our total roll and then in ( ) behind it the bonus that was applied to it i.e. (400) for max VD or (256) for an average Dodge Ranged bonus.
I noticed that no matter what I do or what tree I use the number in the ( ) after my roll is always 0 (ZERO) which means that there was no bonus whatsoever applied to my roll.
Which of course also explains why Riflemen pwn right now - because even though I have 45 pts of Ballistic Defense and a 27% bonus on that I get hit every time - probably because my roll is always under 100 and the number in the bonus bracket is...you guessed it - ZERO. Now I know people are already saying on QA "Ballistic Defense doesn't work" - that's right it doesn't - but then according to that logic NONE of the bonuses currently work. Ok - I haven't tried any of the Hacker trees yet so I can't say anything about Viral Accuracy and/or Defense but in my observation anything that has to do with Melee/Ballistic Accuracy and Defense has no bonus whatsoever applied to it.
In the current Combat system we see our total roll and then in ( ) behind it the bonus that was applied to it i.e. (400) for max VD or (256) for an average Dodge Ranged bonus.
I noticed that no matter what I do or what tree I use the number in the ( ) after my roll is always 0 (ZERO) which means that there was no bonus whatsoever applied to my roll.
Which of course also explains why Riflemen pwn right now - because even though I have 45 pts of Ballistic Defense and a 27% bonus on that I get hit every time - probably because my roll is always under 100 and the number in the bonus bracket is...you guessed it - ZERO. Now I know people are already saying on QA "Ballistic Defense doesn't work" - that's right it doesn't - but then according to that logic NONE of the bonuses currently work. Ok - I haven't tried any of the Hacker trees yet so I can't say anything about Viral Accuracy and/or Defense but in my observation anything that has to do with Melee/Ballistic Accuracy and Defense has no bonus whatsoever applied to it.