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Useless Operative feat?

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Does the level 18 Operative feat "Relentless Aim" actually do anything? The feat reads as follows:

>You carefully aim your shots so your bullets ricochet off solid
surfaces and find their target. When you Aim at targets within
your first range increment, you ignore up to greater cover that
they would otherwise have against your attacks.

But Operative's Aim says the following:

>At 17th level, you reduce the
circumstance bonus to AC your mark gains from cover by
4 rather than 2.

So what's the point? There's no way that cover can give someone an even higher AC bonus than that, right? And it specifically says "up to greater cover" which is already +4.
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Correct, the feat is useless. Probably a holdover from an earlier version where the Aim cover reduction didn't scale.
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I believe the phrase "you ignore up to greater cover that they would otherwise have against your attacks" (emphasis mine) means the mark loses even the reduced cover bonus (the +2 circumstance bonus to AC from Operative's Aim becomes +0 in the first range increment with Relentless Aim). "Ignore up to" vs. "reduce."
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Dragonchess Player wrote:
I believe the phrase "you ignore up to greater cover that they would otherwise have against your attacks" (emphasis mine) means the mark loses even the reduced cover bonus (the +2 circumstance bonus to AC from Operative's Aim becomes +0 in the first range increment with Relentless Aim). "Ignore up to" vs. "reduce."

There is no reduced cover bonus left over. From level 17 onward, Aim reduces cover by -4, so even greater cover (+4) is completely nullified already.

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For some reason, I was reading that as "reduce the... bonus to AC... from 4 to 2."

Maybe the feat was written for an earlier version of Aim where it only reduced the cover bonus by 2.
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