Control V3 only has Range 2, which is only 1 meter. It's entirely possible that our Sense is limited by our Range, in which case we'd never see the car coming (if we wouldn't see it already).
Breakpoint could snipe this guy with a Mach 13 cannonball, assuming that we get the opportunity to before this guy finds someone who can defend against mach 13 cannonballs.
Break the Earth could also snipe Breakpoint with similarly powerful attacks, which cannot be diminished sufficiently to assure survival.
I'm not sure that Break the Earth could reliably hit Breakpoint from a distance. At least, not without using a projectile large enough that the wind-up be noticeable enough to aim-dodge.
If Break the Earth applied all it's energy over it's entire range (10 m), it would apply 2.5 Billion Joules of energy per projectile (Energy = Nm). For reference this is about 0.0025 Hiroshimas. It would take Mr.Hiroshima approximately a trivial amount of time to output this power (I have difficulty computing this because we need to use general and/or special relativity to calculate speed and therefore distance and therefore time). He can repeat this city-destroying bombardment until Breakpoint and everywhere around him is smoldering ash.
I don't see how that wouldn't kill Break the Earth as well, if we're intentionally releasing all of energy explosively rather than in a directed manner. That seems like a poor technique to try and use regularly, and also seems like it'd be quicker to earn you enemies than friends.
But we can trivially destroy cities in seconds. KNEEL OR BE BROKEN LIKE TWIGS!
And yet we still couldn't effectively defend ourselves from super sniper, which seems like the exact kind of enemy we'd call down for playing the game like this.
We would obviously prioritize Reaction and Range massively after accuring tons of virtual exp after we curbstomp people through our fractional c attacks. Not that we can also be a sniper in this scenario.
That's fair, but the problem is that we're still starting with piss-poor Sense and not great Finesse, on top of not having enough Reaction to dodge high-speed attacks. It's just a lot to juggle.
I mean, just like how we can train from Reaction 6 to Reaction 8, so too can we eventually train from Potency 5 to Potency 9. It'll just take a little bit longer, but we'll be more survivable in the mean time.
Sense isn't limited by Range. Sense 5's description makes it clear that it works at the same range as a normal sense, except in 360 degrees.
That's not how I interpreted that. I thought that it meant that our TK-sense was on par with our other senses in terms of passive integration and resolution.
The radius of your Sense is based on Range. Range only occurs up to a limited distance with your line of sight. At a certain point, Sense traces around that same limit and beyond to create a sphere of Sense all around you. Yet, these heightened senses and increased details cannot exceed the Range of your power.
Is there a way to get stats above the ten point limit here? Asking since merely 1 nanometer Finesse is a bit large to handle the really small atoms.
Maz has confirmed in the discord that we can train past 10. 10 is just the character creation limit.
Not during character creation, but every stat here can be 'taken up to eleven' and beyond during game play. Of course, that'll require experience! And you'll only really find your limits, if such exist, once you reach them.
The conceit of the quest is that prior to the opening post, prior to the Big Flash of Light, the setting was basically our Earth. So, needless to say, there were no powered individuals around.