PCI_StatMonkey wrote:
archangel wrote:
So I saw Cyberous was remade in the Survivors Guide and had firearms instead of ranged again. I was going to submit a probable error but wanted to check again. There is one clue as to why the character has firearms. Under the firearms skill, there is a focus on energy weapons. This leads to a conflict with removable item power flaw. There is another hero in the book that has a blaster and they use ranged as we expect too.
So does the energy weapons focus only really mean things like a flamethrower and flare gun? If so what is the distinction? Hopefully, after we go through the guide we can get eratta on both
It's a choice when you create the weapon itself. If I recall Arch-Lighting's bow uses his skill even when firing energy arrows.
I think either I'm missing something or there is an issue with wording somewhere. If I'm understanding correctly you are saying we would normally use the power ranks for the attack roll, but under powers it says that if it targets AV then it uses ranged. So if we were targeting a different defense it would use the power but none of the energy weapons I've seen use a power targeting anything than AV.
I'm rereading the equipment section looking for where I saw that flare gun and others under modern weapons use firearms.
I could actually see ranged attack powers with removable item using firearms instead or ranged, but certainly understand not wanting to make it that easy to have a high attack roll. That being very easy to get a high starting firearms through skill packages.
Edit: I also wanted to note that in the final copy of survivors guide Cyberous uses ranged. It was pointed out recently that I was working from an early copy and hadn't downloaded the final copy when it was sent to backers.