Shard insanity lance
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Shard insanity lance
A limited-use psychic effector. It overwhelms the target's mind with terrifying perceptual distortions, driving them into a berserk state. There is a risk of brain damage. This insanity lance was crafted from a broken shard of dark archotechnology. It has a shorter range than its non-shard based counterpart and it requires line of sight.
Base Stats
Apparel
- Clothing For Nudity
- False
- Coverage
- Waist
- Layer
- Belt
- Lifestage
- Adult
- Equip Delay
- 60 ticks (1 sec)
Ranged Combat
- Warm-Up
- 144 ticks (2.4 secs)
- Range
- 16.9 tile(s)
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Insanity weaponry
- Skill Required
- Crafting 5
- Work To Make
- 21,000 ticks (5.83 mins)
- Work Speed Stat
- General Labor Speed
- Resources to make
1 + 
75
- thingCategories
- ApparelUtility
- thingSetMakerTags
- RewardStandardHighFreq
- tradeTags
- Artifact, UtilitySpecial
A shard insanity lance is a two-use artifact that can be equipped by pawns in the Utility slot and manually activated to cause a target to go berserk.
The shard insanity lance is largely identically to the psychic insanity lance, but craftable and shorter ranged.
Acquisition[edit]
Shard insanity lances can be crafted at a bioferrite shaper once the Insanity weaponry research project has been completed. Note that this research requires dark study to unlock. Each requires 1 Shard, 75 Bioferrite, 21,000 ticks (5.83 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 5.
Summary[edit]
When equipped, a shard insanity lance is worn in the waist utility slot. Pawns that are incapable of violence can equip, but not use, the lance. Once the wearer is drafted, it can be manually activated by the player to target a pawn within 16.9 tiles and within line of sight. The lance has 2 charges and cannot be recharged - when both charges are expended, the item disappears completely and no resources can be salvaged from it.
After a 144 ticks (2.4 secs) warm-up, the target will instantaneously go berserk - this berserk state is essentially identical to the mental break with the same minimum recovery time of 40,000 ticks (11.11 mins) and the same end condition of unconsciousness. The warmup time before firing is affected by the Aiming Time stat of the wearer. There is also a 30% chance that the target will be set alight and given brain damage in the form of a burn scar. When targeting colonists, this 30% chance is multiplied by the Friendly Fire Chance in the Difficulty settings.
Pawns with 0% psychic sensitivity, such as those with the psychically deaf trait, cannot be targeted by the lance. Sensitivity does not otherwise modify the effect. The three mechanoid commanders
and the dreadmeld are also immune to psychic lances.
If used on a non-hostile faction's pawn, it will decrease goodwill with that faction by −200 points.
Like all utility items, a shard insanity lance is treated largely like any piece of apparel, however some exceptions exist. Utility items are worn on the waist and are mutually exclusive only with each other, regardless of the layer or coverage of other apparel worn. Additionally, utility items never become tainted, deteriorate from being worn, or inflict a worn-out or tattered mood debuff when damaged.
Analysis[edit]
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Version history[edit]
- Anomaly DLC Release - Added.
- Utility
- Firefoam pop pack • Orbital bombardment targeter • Orbital power beam targeter • Psychic shock lance • Psychic insanity lance • Shield belt • Smokepop pack • Tornado generator • Low-shield pack
• Jump pack • Orbital mech cluster targeter • Bandwidth pack • Control pack • Tox pack • Biomutation lance
• Deadlife pack • Disruptor flare pack • Shard insanity lance • Shard shock lance • Turret pack • Hunter pack
• Cerebrex node