Psychic foil helmet
Psychic foil helmet
A thin helmet containing finely-tuned sheets of psychically-absorptive foil. Reduces the impact of psychic waves.
Base Stats
Apparel
- Insulation - Cold
- 2 °C (3.6 °F)
- Insulation - Heat
- 1 °C (1.8 °F)
- Armor - Sharp
- 9%
- Armor - Blunt
- 9%
- Armor - Heat
- 27%
- Coverage
- Head, Left Ear, Right Ear
- Layer
- Headgear
- Lifestage
- Adult
- Equip Delay
- 90 ticks (1.5 secs)
- Has Quality
- True
- thingCategories
- Headgear
- thingSetMakerTags
- RewardStandardLowFreq
- tags
- IndustrialMilitaryBasic, IndustrialMilitaryAdvanced, SpacerMilitary
- tradeTags
- Clothing
The psychic foil helmet is a piece of headgear that decreases the psychic sensitivity of the wearer, and is primarily useful for protecting an individual pawn against psychic phenomena.
Acquisition[edit]
This item cannot be crafted. It can only purchased through trade, found on raiders, or obtained as a quest reward.
Summary[edit]
A psychic foil helmet reduces a pawn's Psychic Sensitivity by −90%, regardless of quality, reducing the effect of psychic phenomena on the pawn. For further detail about what is affected, see the Psychic Sensitivity page.
Note that this chance is an offset to the stat. For example, a pawn with the psychically hypersensitive trait (+80%) wearing the helmet will have a final sensitivity of 90%, while a psychically dull (−50%) pawn will have a sensitivity 0% them rendering them immune to most psychic effects, including psychic shocks and insanity lances.
Analysis[edit]
The psychic foil helmet is a niche item primarily useful in blunting the mood penalty from psychic drones, particularly on psychically sensitive colonists. The same reduction cuts positive psychic effects, however, including those from psychic emanators and psychic harmonizers. It also offers some protection from psycast
friendly fire, which can help shield melee colonists in the scrum.
Despite being called a helmet, the psychic foil helmet's protection is comparable to that of a bowler hat made of weak materials. It only blocks minimal damage and, with its low HP, doesn't last very long either. Quality does not affect its psychic protection, so an Awful foil helmet blocks psychic effects just as well as a Legendary foil helmet.
Psychic foil helmets can appear on some raiders, making them resistant to some psycasts. If combined with the psychically dull trait, whether they have it naturally or forced by genes,
they will also be immune to psychic lances. It is thus important to check a target's gear before relying on either option.
Psychic foil helmets can be used to intentionally reduce the quality of psychic rituals,
as some rituals have desirable effects at low quality. For example, lowering the quality of draw animals increases the odds of summoning a manhunter pack, which can be exploited to bait and bleed raiders. Watering down chronophagy provides finer control of the invoker and target's final ages, useful for both narrative and mechanical reasons including, but not limited to, maintaining relative ages, preventing valuable targets such as current or future colonists from becoming too old, and maximising the number of pawns that can have their Transhumanist
demands for age reversal satisfied or scars removed with a given target pool and/or without de-aging younger invokers into their teens (and suffering teen stat penalties).
Stats table
 Psychic foil helmet
|
Sharp | Blunt | Heat | HP | Insulation - Cold |
Insulation - Heat |
Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | |||||||
| Awful | 5.4% | 5.4% | 16.2% | 80 | -1.6 °C (-2.9 °F) | +0.8 °C (1.4 °F) | 125  |
| Poor | 7.2% | 7.2% | 21.6% | 80 | -1.8 °C (-3.2 °F) | +0.9 °C (1.6 °F) | 188 |
| Normal | 9% | 9% | 27% | 80 | -2 °C (-3.6 °F) | +1 °C (1.8 °F) | 250 |
| Good | 10.35% | 10.35% | 31.05% | 80 | -2.2 °C (-4 °F) | +1.1 °C (2 °F) | 310 |
| Excellent | 11.7% | 11.7% | 35.1% | 80 | -2.4 °C (-4.3 °F) | +1.2 °C (2.2 °F) | 375 |
| Masterwork | 13.05% | 13.05% | 39.15% | 80 | -3 °C (-5.4 °F) | +1.5 °C (2.7 °F) | 625 |
| Legendary | 16.2% | 16.2% | 48.6% | 80 | -3.6 °C (-6.5 °F) | +1.8 °C (3.2 °F) | 1,250 |
For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.
| Stat | Increase |
|---|---|
| Psychic Sensitivity | -90% |
| Neural Heat Limit | -72 |
Version history[edit]
- 0.9.722 - Added.
- At some point post A14 - texture updated.
- At some point (1.1?), the armor rating was increased from Sharp/Blunt/Heat of 5/5/0 to 9/9/27 and the HP was doubled
Previous texture as of A14
- Torso | Clothing
- Button-down shirt • T-shirt (Kid ) • Tribalwear (Kid )
- Corset • Eltex shirt • Eltex vest • Formal vest • Formal shirt
- Slave collar
- Sash • Kid romper
- Armor
- Flak vest
- Legs | Clothing
- Pants (Kid )
- Armor
- Flak pants
- Shell | Clothing
- Duster • Jacket • Parka (Kid ) • Robe
- Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe
- Burka • Slave body strap
- Heavy bandolier
- Lab coat
- Armor
- Flak jacket • Marine armor (Prestige , Grenadier ) • Plate armor • Recon armor (Prestige , Locust , Mechlord ) • Cataphract armor (Prestige , Phoenix ) • Vacsuit
(Kid ) - Head | Clothing
- Bowler hat • Cowboy hat • Face mask • Hood • Psychic foil helmet • Tuque • Tribal headdress • Veil • War mask
- Beret • Coronet • Crown • Eltex helmet • Eltex skullcap • Ladies hat • Stellic crown • Top hat
- Authority cap • Blindfold • Broadwrap • Flophat • Headwrap • Shadecone • Slicecap • Tailcap • Torture crown • Visage mask
- Airwire headset • Array headset • Gas mask
- Ceremonial hood • Ritual mask
- Armor
- Flak helmet • Marine helmet (Prestige/Samurai helmet ) • Recon helmet (Prestige , Mechlord ) • Simple helmet (Kid ) • Cataphract helmet (Prestige ) • Gunlink • Integrator headset • Mechcommander helmet • Vacsuit helmet