Psychic Sensitivity

Psychic Sensitivity is a stat: More sensitive people suffer more from negative psychic effects, and benefit more from positive ones. Higher psychic sensitivity also increases neural heat limit. Its default value is 100%.

Psychic sensitivity acts as a scalar value for things such as Psychic drones, some Psycasts , and a pawn's Neural Heat Limit. Some effects such as Psychic shock lances are toggled by psychic sensitivity only - if a pawn has a non-zero sensitivity the effect is applied and if they don't it is not, but no other modification to the effect from different levels exists.

Humans and Animals by default have a psychic sensitivity of 100%, centipedes 75%, and other mechanoids 50%. Devourers have a psychic sensitivity of 200%.

Effects

Name	Effect of Stat
Psychic Drones	Multiplier on moodlet
Psychic suppressor	Multiplier on lost Consciousness
Psychic animal pulser	N/A
Psychic insanity lance	Immunity at 0%. No other effect.
Psychic shock lance	Immunity at 0%. No other effect.
Psychic soothe pulser	Multiplier on moodlet
Psychic emanator	Multiplier on moodlet
Psychic reader	Multiplier on Negotiation Ability and Trade Price Improvement gains
Psychic harmonizer	Multiplier on applied moodlet, both positive and negative Multiplier on received moodlet, both positive and negative
Neural Heat Limit	Multiplier on Limit
Psycasts ^[A]	Multiplier on duration (the target's sensitivity is used)
Psychic rituals	Different effect based on Invoker's sensitivity

^A This applies to most, but not all, psycasts that create effects on the pawn. The user's own psychic sensitivity has no effect on duration, unless the user is the target. See Psycasts for more information.

Factors

The following modifiers exist:

Name	Type	Sensitivity Bonus	Sensitivity Multiplier	Neural Heat Limit ^[C]	Recovery Rate Bonus
Sight	Capacity	+0 – 50%^[B]	-	+0 - 40	-
Psychically hypersensitive	Trait	+80%	-	+64	-
Psychically sensitive	Trait	+40%	-	+32	-
Psychically dull	Trait	−50%	-	−40	-
Psychically deaf	Trait	−100%	-	−80	-
Psychic foil helmet	Apparel	−90%	-	−72	-
Prestige recon armor	Apparel	+5%	-	+4	+0.033
Prestige recon helmet	Apparel	+5%	-	+4	+0.033
Prestige marine armor	Apparel	+5%	-	+4	+0.033
Prestige marine helmet	Apparel	+5%	-	+4	+0.033
Prestige cataphract armor	Apparel	+5%	-	+4	+0.033
Prestige cataphract helmet	Apparel	+5%	-	+4	+0.033
Eltex shirt	Apparel	+5 – 15% ^[Q]	-	+4 – 12 ^[Q]	+0.033
Eltex vest	Apparel	+8 – 23% ^[Q]	-	+6 – 18 ^[Q]	+0.05
Eltex robe	Apparel	+10 – 30% ^[Q]	-	+8 – 24 ^[Q]	+0.083
Eltex helmet	Apparel	+8 – 23% ^[Q]	-	+6 – 18 ^[Q]	+0.066
Eltex skullcap	Apparel	+20 – 60% ^[Q]	-	+16 – 48 ^[Q]	+0.091
Eltex staff	Weapon	+25 – 75% ^[Q]	-	+20 – 60 ^[Q]	+0.083
Psychic Hypersensitizer persona weapon ^[A]	Weapon	+40%	-	+32	-
Psychic Sensitivity persona weapon ^[A]	Weapon	+20%	-	+16	-
Psychic Quiet persona weapon ^[A]	Weapon	−15%	-	−12	-
Psychic Fog persona weapon ^[A]	Weapon	−30%	-	−24	-
Neural Cooling persona weapon ^[A]	Weapon	-	-	-	+0.15
Psychic sensitizer	Implant	+25%	-	+20	-
Blinded with blind psysense	Condition	+30%^[D]	-	+24^[D]	-
Psychic bonding	Gene	+5 – 10%^[E]	-	+4 – 8^[E]	-
Psy-sensitive	Gene	+20%	-	+16	+0.1
Super psy-sensitive	Gene	+40%	-	+32	+0.2
Psychofluid pump	Deathrest building	+25 – 100% ^[DR]	-	+20 – 80 ^[DR]	+0.05 - 0.2
Deathrest exhaustion	Condition	−100%	-	−80	-
Psychophage	Condition	+50% ^[P]	-	+40 ^[P]	-
Psychically dead	Condition	-	×0%	-	-
Voidsight	Condition	-	×125%	-	-
Void touched	Condition	-	×200%	-	-
Bioferrite equipment	Apparel / Weapon	-	×106 − 120% ^[QB]	-	+0.04

^A Psychic sensitivity persona weapon traits are mutually exclusive with each other, but not with Neural Cooling. Persona traits appear on the following weapons: Persona monosword, Persona plasmasword, and Persona zeushammer

^B Sight capacity provides is a 1% bonus for each percentage point below 50% sight. i.e. 20% Sight results in a bonus of +30% psychic sensitivity, while total blindness at 0% Sight provides +50% sensitivity.

^C Neural heat limit increase from the increased psychic sensitivity, assuming psylink level 6.

^D Note that this stacks with the +50% to psychic sensitivity provided just by being having Sight of 0%, for a total of +80% to sensitivity and a +64 to neural heat limit.

^E When psychically bonded to a pawn, +10% to psychic sensitivity and +8 to neural heat limit while they are on the same map, otherwise +5% and +4.

^Q Value scales with Quality. 0.5× -> 0.66× -> 0.83× -> 1.00× -> 1.16× -> 1.32× -> 1.5×. Note that Normal quality is not 1.00×

^QB Value scales with Quality. 1.06x -> 1.08x -> 1.1x -> 1.13x -> 1.15x -> 1.17x -> 1.20x. Note that Normal quality is not 1.00×

^DR Each pump stacks additively, up to a maximum of 4 times.

^P Despite Psychophagy stating that it consumes the psychic sensitivity of the target, neither the target nor invoker's sensitivity affect the result of the ritual, which is always a flat +50% bonus. The invoker's sensitivity does contribute to ritual quality, which increases the duration of the buff.

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