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Neurophages draw power from other creatures, mainly by mimicking the abilities of enemy Psycasters and by absorbing the mind of those unable to use psychic abilities.
They also possess the ability to influence most technology around them to even the odds when fighting against non psychically aligned opponents.
Psycasts:
T1:
[img]https://imgur.com/WIRRC7m.png[/img]
Neurophagy
Wipe the target's Psylink and absorb its levels to convert them into Neurophagy levels.
Using this ability on a non-Psycaster will destroy their brain in order to grant a Neurophagy level.
This ability can be used on corpses.
T2:
[img]https://imgur.com/ATEComF.png[/img]
Neural Scramble
Emit psychic radiation that will periodically confuse the target, resulting in them getting stunned every few seconds for a while.
[img]https://imgur.com/tLQKcce.png[/img]
Passive: Neurophagy+
Passive upgrade: Unlocking this ability will automatically apply its effects.
Neurophagy Upgrade:
Neurophagy will now grant a 2% psychic sensitivity bonus per level.
[img]https://imgur.com/ZV5WyyQ.png[/img]
Neural Infiltration
Psychically influence the target electronics in order to bend them to the caster's will, biocoded items may be hacked to decode them.
Targeting another creature within the inner targeting circle of this psycast will biocode their weapon to the caster, resulting in them losing the ability to use it.
This ability does not require line of sight to the target.
T3:
[img]https://imgur.com/APhcrcM.png[/img]
Psychic Takeover
Hack the target's psylink in order to force them to self cast every psycast they currently own.
This action will cause the target to spend their psyfocus, will succeed regardless of the target's psyfocus level.
[img]https://imgur.com/DojGxa5.png[/img]
Leech Psyfocus
Reap the psychic energy of the target psycaster to fuel the caster's abilities.
[img]https://imgur.com/qJ14tUF.png[/img]
Passive: Neural Gestalt
Passive upgrade: Unlocking this ability will automatically apply its effects.
Meditation Upgrade: Nearby allied psycasters will gain the equivalent of this person's Neurophagy levels divided by 2 as Psylink experience every few seconds.
Radius: 9 Cells around self.
Does not affect this person.
T4:
[img]https://imgur.com/XiucSm1.png[/img]
Neural String
Assume control over another Psycaster of a Psylink level equal or under the caster's own level to turn them into a Neuro-Drone.
The Neuro-Controller will receive the neural heat of their Neuro-Drones and will share the following with them:
-Skill Levels
-All needs except food, sleep and Luciferium need
-Traits
-Ideology
-Faction
Neuro-Drones will have a minimum neural heat cost to upkeep, which increases with the Drone's own psychic sensitivity and cannot go lower than 50 neural heat.
This ability will consume an amount of Neurophagy levels equal to the target's Psylink level to convert the target.
[img]https://imgur.com/L4ZYZSw.png[/img]
Neural Field
Unlock the true potential of a Neurophage for a brief moment, while in this state, all psycasts will cost 0% psyfocus and will generate 50% less neural heat.
Nearby allies will obtain the "Neural Ripple" effect, causing their psycasts to cost 50% less psyfocus and generate 25% less neural heat. They will additionally will also regenerate 5% psyfocus per second while the caster is in this state.
This state will consume a Neurophagy level per second to maintain and will kill the user if Neurophagy levels hit 0.
Recasting this ability or becoming downed will cancel it early.
[img]https://imgur.com/prMBtqw.png[/img]
Neuralink
Convert the selected amount of Neurophagy levels into Psylink levels, may also form a Psylink connection if used on non-Psycasters.
T5:
[img]https://imgur.com/yF4WPGs.png[/img]
Psychic Mimicry
Hack the target's psylink in order to learn all of their currently owned psycasts, this ability does not raise the psylink level of the user.
[img]https://imgur.com/YUDLxWM.png[/img]
Passive: Neural Nihil
Passive upgrade: Unlocking this ability will automatically apply its effects.
Analyzes and determines the dominant path across enemy Psycasters, once determined, every enemy Psycaster who shares the nullified path will have their consciousness halved and their neural heat locked to 100%.
Nullifies a random path if no dominant path was found.
The Neurophage path cannot be selected by this passive.
[img]https://imgur.com/mbGErYV.png[/img]
Apex Neurophagy
After a 10 seconds meditation period, wipe the Psylink of every Psycaster near the target point (Caster excluded) to convert their Psylink levels into Neurophagy levels.
Non-Psycasters will have their brain destroyed in order to grant a Neurophagy level per destroyed brain.
This ability will function on corpses in a similar way to Neurophagy.
Additionally, this ability will ignore allied creatures if there is a target that does not belong to the caster's faction within the area of effect.
F.A.Q
Q: Mid save compat?
A: Yes
Q: CE compat?
A: No projectiles are being used so yes.
Q: Where to find the path?
A: Inside the "Misc" Psypath tab.
Known Issues
Psychic Takeover:
Certain abilities may cause errors upon force cast, I have currently banned abilities who have more than 1 target and/or those who target world map tiles. Current testing showed no errors related to Psychic Takeover itself.
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