Infernalism psi defence

[Sneak Dog]

So looking at the wiki, infernalism supposedly boosts psi resistance per its description. But looking at the gamefiles 'armors_XCOMFILES.rul' I see:

Spoiler:

    psiDefence: &StandardDynamicPsiDefence
      psiStrength: 1.0
      psiSkill: 0.4
      moraleCurrent: 0.33
      bravery: 0.2

...

    psiDefence: &InfernalDynamicPsiDefence
      psiStrength: 1.0
      psiSkill: 0.5
      moraleCurrent: 0.33
      bravery: 0.2

This implies that infernals get 0.1 of their psi skill as a bonus. But they also lose 30 bravery. Given 50 psi skill, isn't this a net negative? +5 from psi skill -6 from the bravery loss? Not to mention the max morale loss from having less bravery?

Most likely I'm missing something though, and I'd love to be enlightened. Would mean I don't have to differentiate between my soldiers based on psi strength as much in the midgame.

[Juku121]

Bravery doesn't affect the panic attacks themselves, only the results (how much morale you lose, not whether you lose morale or not).

Otherwise, yeah, the +0.1 psi skill multiplier isn't much. I guess the pedia article is technically right - which is the best kind of right, of course.

[Stone Lake]

Yep, seems correct. You can have 55-60 PSK with commendation bonuses, but that's ~6 resistance bonus, so just net zero. Not much better.

[Juku121]

Yeah, my bad, too stuck in vanilla thinking.


You do get a lot of bravery from commendations, though, so you might still hit the threshold where panic just doesn't take. Mind control is still worse or at best equal, though.


As an aside, I'm not sure I like bravery getting a say in psi defence. Then again, we have bravery-powered firearms, so, eh.