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Originally Posted by Culture20
Altered Time Rate provides some of the same benefits as Enhanced Time Sense.
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That's actually mostly untrue. ETS and ATR have fairly little overlap in what they actually do. ETS greatly increases your
perception of time. That allows you to do things like see a bullet in flight and defend against it, even though you didn't see the shooter, including parrying such attacks. It also allows you to complete some purely-mental actions almost instantly - take just a turn to make a Tactics roll, for example, at the start of a fight.
Altered Time Rate, on the other hand, does let you take extra actions in combat, but it doesn't have the mental speed-boost of ETS. You're never thinking faster than normal multiplied by your level of ATR, and that has its own limitations. It doesn't matter how fast you physically act, you can't parry a bullet in flight, and if it would normally take 30 seconds to come up with a tactical plan, and you've got ATR 1, you're not going to finish it faster than 15 seconds from now.