Hydraulic Muscles now sets your strength to a fixed value

[Standing-Storm]

Summary

Balance "Hydraulic Muscles now sets your strength to a fixed value"

Purpose of change

Describe the solution

Hydraulic Muscles sets your strength to the flat value of 20, chosen because in #83001 20 is the max value for Strength. This is done using an EoC that gets your pre-activation strength, adds 20 to it, and then subtracts the pre-activation strength from that.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

Strength 8, activated Hydraulic Muscles, had 20 Strength.
Strength 10, activated Hydraulic Muscles, had 20 Strength.

Additional context

[BalthazarArgall]

Why 20 instead of 14, 16 or 18 for example?

[Standing-Storm]

Because it previously added 20 to your strength, but with 20 as the strength cap, setting it to 20 is the closest to the old value.

(It also takes 10 kJ per second to run so it's not something you can have on for more than short bursts)

[Zerdocriil]

this changes make this cbm useless. its very rare, it need big amount of energy to use, with cbm slots it will occupy a lot of slots, and with mutations + strength cmb = it will have low or zero impact on character. maybe leave all as it is? or make boost of strength of this cbm to 10 no matter, how much strength character already have, with decreasing energy cost? Or make common version of this cbm with changes of this pr, and leave already existed cbm version with its current stats because of rarity, energy draining and cbm slots occupy?

[Standing-Storm]

Once #83001 is merged it will not be possible for this CBM to boost strength above 20 in any case, meaning many of the situations you mentioned would have an equivalent effect as this PR (e.g. if it's +10 and you have 12 strength, after #83001 your strength will be 20, not 22).

[Zerdocriil]

Once #83001 is merged it will not be possible for this CBM to boost strength above 20 in any case, meaning many of the situations you mentioned would have an equivalent effect as this PR (e.g. if it's +10 and you have 12 strength, after #83001 your strength will be 20, not 22).

thank you for explonation!