What combat benefits does Enhanced Time Sense give?

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

As an aside, where is the text about ETS letting you parry bullets? Precognitive Parry notes that the skill lets you parry bullets without having ETS (which indirectly implies that having ETS lets you do so), but the description of ETS itself doesn't note that ability. It has to be off somewhere else in the rules -- but where?

B212, description of the Parry Missile Weapons skill.

You cannot parry bullets or similar high-tech projectiles! (Exception: Enhanced Time Sense allows you to parry bullets at -5.)

Page 38 of Supers covers improving Bullet Parry as a technique.

[Anaraxes]

Parry Missile Weapons

Thanks for all the references!

(I keep trying to talk myself out of buying Basic in PDF just to be able to search it... but I'm weakening.)

[Kromm]

The benefits of ETS, found by searching the Basic Set, Martial Arts, and Gun Fu:

• all the benefits of Combat Reflexes (+1 to active defenses and Fast-Draw, +2 to Fright Checks, immunity to freezing when surprised, and +6 to recover from lesser surprise)
• always act first in the combat sequence
• always draw first in a standoff with unready weapons
• always go first in a Wait situation/standoff with ready weapons, even unarmed vs. a gun
• dodge snipers' bullets fired from "surprise" if you can see a flash, hear a report, or have Danger sense
• ignore penalties to attack around fast-moving obstacles
• invoke the Bullet Time rule, if used
• parry bullets with the Parry Missile Weapons skill, or shoot them down effectively with the Area Defense perk
• request extra time on the real-world clock to make combat decisions, even if the GM has everybody else on a turn timer

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Kromm

The benefits of ETS, found by searching the Basic Set, Martial Arts, and Gun Fu:

• all the benefits of Combat Reflexes (+1 to active defenses and Fast-Draw, +2 to Fright Checks, immunity to freezing when surprised, and +6 to recover from lesser surprise)
• always act first in the combat sequence
• always draw first in a standoff with unready weapons
• always go first in a Wait situation/standoff with ready weapons, even unarmed vs. a gun
• dodge snipers' bullets fired from "surprise" if you can see a flash, hear a report, or have Danger sense
• ignore penalties to attack around fast-moving obstacles
• invoke the Bullet Time rule, if used
• parry bullets with the Parry Missile Weapons skill, or shoot them down effectively with the Area Defense perk
• request extra time on the real-world clock to make combat decisions, even if the GM has everybody else on a turn timer

I'm uFAQing it right now. Anything else? Any special interaction with Tactical Shooting or Supers?

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I'm uFAQing it right now. Anything else? Any special interaction with Tactical Shooting or Supers?

Supers presents an optional rule for letting it allow a Parry Missile Weapons technique for parrying beam weapons.

[Mark Skarr]

Originally Posted by Kromm

• invoke the Bullet Time rule, if used

This alone has had me house-rule, in a couple of games, that you must have ETS and ATR to invoke Bullet Time

Bullet Time is awesome.

[Kalzazz]

I've never seen anyone use bullet time (or actually, any of the burn CP options)

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Mark Skarr

This alone has had me house-rule, in a couple of games, that you must have ETS and ATR to invoke Bullet Time

Bullet Time is awesome.

But costly.