Nerf the truncheon into Oblivion (Remastered 2025)

[AutumnalModding]

About the PR

Makes the truncheon do 40 stamina damage and 18 blunt, making it a viable slightly-lethal sidegrade to the stun baton.

Why / Balance

Holy shit this should not do 54 blunt.

Technical details

Truncheon now has a StaminaDamageOnHitComponent.

How to test

Spawn in an evil freelancer criminal.
Spawn in a truncheon.
Hit them with it and watch them NOT die in two hits.

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Breaking changes

Changelog

[DevArchwave]

It's counter intuitive to have a weapon like this do mostly stamina damage, it doesn't accomplish much because anyone wanting to stun someone is going to use a baton, while anyone trying to crit someone will be using something else.
Perhaps instead lower the blunt damage to 42?

[AutumnalModding]

42 is still a lot of blunt when taking into account e.g. species specific melee buffs.
Even other weapons that do comparable damage don't have it as pure blunt; e.g. energy swords do 22 slash/22 heat.
The trunch is also cheap as chips in the uplink, mind.

[DevArchwave]

I'd recommend making a thread about this as there are a lot of weapons that are also far up in the list of damage. About a few months ago they pushed an update that nearly doubled melee damage, but I'm not sure how the directors feel about this nowadays. Worth asking.

[Tk420634]

truncheon more like luncheon god I need a sandwich

[AutumnalModding]

It's counter intuitive to have a weapon like this do mostly stamina damage, it doesn't accomplish much because anyone wanting to stun someone is going to use a baton, while anyone trying to crit someone will be using something else.
Perhaps instead lower the blunt damage to 42?

@DevArchwave keep in mind the truncheon ALSO does high stam damage right now - two hits to stamcrit

Also, I ran some tests - you can gib someone in 7-8 hits with this, which... is probably not great for a weapon that's intended (at least by meta, perhaps not by intention though!) to be wideswung and hit multiple targets at once?

[AutumnalModding]

Will be marked as DNM pending maintainer discussions.