Firing into melee?

[Kemuri Kunoichi]

I know in Pathfinder, you take a -4 to hit when firing into melee (unless you have the Precise Shot feat), and a -4 for firing through soft cover...I found the same soft cover rule in the Starfinder core book, but I do not see anything about firing into melee...

Do you still take a -4 for firing into melee, or was that removed?

[Darkling36]

It was removed. It was always really just a feat tax and I think that since everyone will be taking ranged shots at some point they just felt like it was unnecessary.

[Kemuri Kunoichi]

I'll have to inform one of our local GMs, he was still imposing the -4 for melee.

Glad it's gone, since Sci-Fi is so gun oriented.

[Zhameng]

However - isn't there that penalty for soft cover if someone is between you and your target? That is, +4 to the target's AC?

[Kemuri Kunoichi]

Soft cover for firing through an occupied square is definitely still in there, saw it in the book when I was looking for info about firing into melee.