Hi everyone! Maybe this was already answered, but still. How do the impact templates work nowadays? In the first bullet point of the impact template it says thet you only apply the template is the roll is successful. In the FtF roll section it says that higher success cancels your opponent's success. Yet I see many people playing that if the FtF is lost, but the roll was lower that the target value, that only the FtF participant is unaffected, and everyone else who is touched by the template received a hit nonetheless. That seems quite ridiculous to me, but I would like to hear the opinion of people more experienced with the rules. Sent from my M2007J3SG using Tapatalk
That's correct. Each target of the Impact Template (ie everyone affected) independently conducts a FTF vs the attacker. So it's not one FTF between the main target and the attacker that determines all other outcomes, but rather multiple different FTFs (with potentially different MODs) that each determine their own outcome.
Yup, as spelled out in the second bullet point you compare your rolls against each target individually, so you can end up hitting some targets but missing others. Think of the impact template weapons as multiple attacks that share a dice roll, rather than one single attack.
This is pretty much the same as they worked in N3. Every target getting their own roll has better gameplay balance - it makes template weapons be less binary, allowing partial successes instead of either complete success or utter failure.
