| Myrryr |
So, I was looking over the few monsters I have access to, from First Contact to the AP, and I have noticed that energy weapons are kinda screwed over. It seems that resistances scale the same way they did in PF, 10, 20, 30 and immunity, yet DR seems unchanged too. Since Starfinder uses 1 big hit as opposed to multiple smaller hits, damage reduction is commensurately much less powerful.
And yet now people have access to large amounts of energy damage in weapons, no longer just hard hitting spells, which is why resistances scaled higher than DR in the first place for PF, 3.5/3e etc..
Now, maybe there's something in Alien Archive, but right now this seems to heavily favor kinetic weapons over energy ones, which is very... anti-sci-fi to me. Why bring a lazer rifle when so many things have high fire resist or outright immunity? Especially if it costs ~1/4 of your WBL to keep it up to snuff. Or when anything has immunities. And it's not like the kinetic user has a real equivalent, an enchanted kinetic weapon harms incorporeal creatures just like the energy weapon does. And swarms are immune to weapon damage, not physical damage.
DR needs to scale higher, or resistances need to scale lower, or kinetic will just be far superior and lazer guns will get left in the wayside :(