Pathfinder 2 - Release 19 information thread.

[Trenloe]

If there was some automated way of handling it, that could also be applied to Versatile weapons, which would be nice.

A versatile weapon is different functionality - the user has to decide what damage type they're going to apply, based off knowledge, experience or guesswork. It shouldn't automatically pick the best, that's up to the user to decide. DMGBASETYPE in R19 will allow the user the change the base damage type of a weapon if they wish.

[Farnaby]

Ah, so for concussive as a GM I can tell the player to choose bludgeoning or piercing as I know what the weakest resistance of the target is.
That should work quite nicely.

[Trenloe]

Ah, so for concussive as a GM I can tell the player to choose bludgeoning or piercing as I know what the weakest resistance of the target is.
That should work quite nicely.

That's probably the best way to handle it. Concussive goes completely against all of the complex code written to determine the highest resistances to apply to a damage instance, so it would be very involved to try to code full automation from concussive weapons - and I'd rather spend my time on something more important than one weapon trait that can be worked around...

[Trenloe]

I've made additions to the code to automatically add an inactive DMGBASETPE: bludgeoning weapon effect to concussive weapons when they are first added to a PC sheet.

The screenshot below show a good example in Release 19 - a combination weapon with concussive on the ranged and versatile on the melee; an appropriate inactive DMGBASETYPE effect has been added to each for the players to enable as needed before they roll damage.

[Muagen]

I am so looking forward to all this new functionality!
I don't think you've clearly specified a date on this, but I'm really crossing my fingers that this is avail with this week's FGU update.

Thanks for everything you do, Trenloe!

[Trenloe]

I don't think you've clearly specified a date on this, but I'm really crossing my fingers that this is avail with this week's FGU update.

It won't go into live for quite a while yet. It will be going into test for a few weeks first.

[Farnaby]

I'm looking forward to testing the heck out of this.
And to be honest, so are my players.
They were quite disappointed yesterday that the test version wasn't ready yet.

[Muagen]

I completely forgot to clarify that. Definitely switching to Test for this.

[MaxAstro]

Ironically, IRL problems (how dare people take vacations!) are resulting in no game for me for the next two weeks, so it sound like I might miss the initial test release of R19.

But you can bet I'll be testing the heck out of it ASAP!

[Milke]

Is this actually in test? I tried it and didn't see anything new.