In the latest coments you all forget one point, devs are creating a game as close as possible to f1 and f2, so what are you talking about reducing agility or anything ?
Because what worked in single player doesn't have to work in multiplayer. Besides, there was no charisma requirement in F2, so there goes your faithfulness to originals.Second level implants don't have negative sides, so the result will be that everyone will have them. Do we really need that?As for third level implants, they are pretty much useless the way you presented them.Following conditions (ALL of them) would have to be met for them to be worth getting:1. Having Lifegiver perk.2. Having second Lifegiver perk.3. Having Toughness perk.4. Having second Toughness perk.5. Having >240 HP at level 21, therefore having 10 EN.If you had met conditions 1-4 and had only 8 EN, you would still be better off with investing two more points in EN instead wasting them on implants.
And you say that 2 charisma for "ultimate killer" build would do nothing, well it would do something, take 2 endurence for sake of charisma, you will lose something like 44 hp in the end, take 2 str for the sake of charisma or any other stat, it will make your killing abilities worse. And this is good as we are trying to even all professions, cause now minigunerrs are way overpowerd.
Or I'll just take 2 from INT, get 3 CHA, get slightly smaller FA skill and, aside from my usual 240+ HP get additional 10% damage res making me even harder to kill. And that's to do what - nerf the damage of BGs? That's already done, minigun deals 30 damage to people with Metal Mk2 (which is the standard, you don't see people fighting in leathers or bluesuits - everyone uses Metal Mk2++ not to come off as a cheap whore and an insult to his/her team), LSW is better by a slight margin. Avenger still works but is hard to get, bazooka never was that awesome. Laser Rifles are next to useless and require a lot of shots to kill someone if you don't get really lucky with a nerfed crit, Sniper Rifles are the same - and you want to "rebalance" the game by increasing armor resistances? What game have you been playing dude? Cause you've obviously missed PvP in FO2238.As a side note, we're gradually moving towards a game where all guns are basically toys making a lot of noise and very little damage while requiring shitload of precious ammo to work. When you have to spend 2 hours in order to spend 5 minutes fighting then something is obviously wrong with the combat system. The only weapon that actually works well right now is the plasma grenade - and that my friends indeed does suck.