[quote=“Magistrate, post:13109, topic:42”][quote=“bitcoinbastard, post:13084, topic:42”][quote=“Magistrate, post:13070, topic:42”]I’m a little confused on how the new recharging system works. The UPS-compatible recharging units charge my UPS converted items, i.e. my gunsmith repair kit (UPS) (500), but it still requires a UPS to operate. Is this a bug, or an incomplete feature?
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The new charger is nice because before you’d have to hold the tool in your hands while it charged off your UPS, so it cuts down on silly inventory stuff.
The whole UPS system is weird though; if the tool is necessary in a recipe (or vehicle manipulation in the case of the welder), it will happily run off the stored charge in the tool. If you try to (a)ctivate the same tool, it will refuse to work without a UPS in inventory or a bionic UPS.
E: The new charger really is best of both worlds though. Before, if you had a tool sitting nearby but not in inventory you had to choose between the simplicity of leaving it in a recharger bay with a rechargeable battery mod but maybe running out of charge and having to wait if you needed more charge than it could hold, or you could UPS mod it but you’d have to hold it in your inventory for X minutes after you used it to top off the internal charge. Now we can do both with the UPS mod.[/quote]
It’s not the best of both worlds though. It’s the worst of both worlds. I have to recharge my objects individually for use in recipes, and I have to lug around + charge a UPS (my character still hasn’t found a UPS bionic after 2 years of ingame). And I don’t remember ever having to charge a UPS converted object in my inventory via a UPS before use.[/quote]
I must agree with Magistrate on this point. The new system fills pretty much exactly the same niche as the old system, the only difference is that the new system is much, much more clunky. Not to mention that this change totally nerfed the use of the laser rifle and other UPS-driven weapons: as you can’t recharge your UPS anymore, using such weapons only becomes feasible when you have an advanced UPS or the right bionics. Not that the use of such weapons was advisable without those tools before hand, but you COULD use them in a limited way. Now it’s pretty much in the category of “LOL, no way dude!”.
Seriously, this is one of the only changes made to Cata in the last few months I’d really, really like to see rolled back again. Both the UPS mod and the recharging mod have it’s benefits, but I’d prefer them to be seperate.
