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.

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%.

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	Multiplier on duration (the target's sensitivity is used)

^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	Recovery Rate Bonus
	Sight	Capacity	+0 – 50%	-	+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%	-	+4 – 12	+0.033
	Eltex vest	Apparel	+8 – 23%	-	+6 – 18	+0.05
	Eltex robe	Apparel	+10 – 30%	-	+8 – 24	+0.083
	Eltex helmet	Apparel	+8 – 23%	-	+6 – 18	+0.066
	Eltex skullcap	Apparel	+20 – 60%	-	+16 – 48	+0.091
	Eltex staff	Weapon	+25 – 75%	-	+20 – 60	+0.083
	Psychic Hypersensitizer persona weapon	Weapon	+40%	-	+32	-
	Psychic Sensitivity persona weapon	Weapon	+20%	-	+16	-
	Psychic Quiet persona weapon	Weapon	−15%	-	−12	-
	Psychic Fog persona weapon	Weapon	−30%	-	−24	-
	Neural Cooling persona weapon	Weapon	-	-	-	+0.15
	Psychic sensitizer	Implant	+25%	-	+20	-
	Blinded with blind psysense	Condition	+30%	-	+24	-
	Psychic bonding	Gene	+5 – 10%	-	+4 – 8	-
	Psy-sensitive	Gene	+20%	-	+16	+0.1
	Super psy-sensitive	Gene	+40%	-	+32	+0.2
	Psychofluid pump	Deathrest building	+25 – 100%	-	+20 – 80	+0.05 - 0.2
	Deathrest exhaustion	Condition	−100%	-	−80	-
	Psychophage	Condition	+50%	-	+40	-
	Psychically dead	Condition	-	×0%	-	-
	Void touched	Condition	-	×200%	-	-

^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×

^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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Stats

Capacities

Blood Filtration  • Blood Pumping • Breathing • Consciousness • Eating • Hearing • Manipulation • Metabolism • Moving • Pain • Sight • Talking

Pawn Stats - General

Carrying Capacity • Eating Speed • Filth Rate • Foraged Food Amount • Global Learning Factor • Hunger Rate Factor • Immunity Gain Speed • Leather Amount • Lifespan Factor • Max Nutrition • Maximum Comfortable Temperature • Meat Amount • Mental Break Threshold • Minimum Comfortable Temperature • Minimum Handling Skill • Move Speed • Pain Shock Threshold • Psychic Sensitivity • Rest Rate Multiplier • Sleep Fall Rate • Toxic Environment Resistance • Toxic Resistance • Meditation Focus Gain • Neural Heat Gain • Neural Heat Limit • Neural Heat Recovery Rate • Conversion Power • Global Certainty Loss Factor • Ideoligion Spread Chance • Terror • Cancer Rate Factor • Fertility • Hemogen Gain Multiplier • Learning Rate Factor • Raw Nutrition Multiplier

- Mechanitor

Mech Bandwidth • Mech Control Groups • Mech Remote Repair Distance • Mech Remote Shield Distance • Mech Remote Shield Energy • Mech Gestation Speed • Mech Repair Speed • Subcore Encoding Speed

- Combat

Aiming Time • Incoming Damage Multiplier • Melee Armor Penetration • Melee Dodge Chance • Melee DPS • Melee Hit Chance • Mortar Miss Radius Multiplier • Shooting Accuracy • Trap Spring Chance • Melee Damage Factor • Ranged Cooldown Multiplier • Stagger Time Multiplier

- Social

Arrest Success Chance • Beauty (Pawn) • Negotiation Ability • Social Impact • Tame Animal Chance • Trade Price Improvement • Train Animal Chance • Animal Products Price Improvement • Slave Suppression Fall Rate • Suppression Power

- Misc

Biosculpter Occupant Speed • Growth Vat Occupant Speed

- Work

Animal Gather Speed • Animal Gather Yield • Butchery Efficiency • Butchery Speed • Construct Success Chance • Construction Speed • Cooking Speed • Deep Drilling Speed • Drug Cooking Speed • Drug Synthesis Speed • Food Poison Chance • General Labor Speed • Global Work Speed • Hunting Stealth • Mechanoid Shredding Efficiency • Mechanoid Shredding Speed • Medical Operation Speed • Medical Surgery Success Chance • Medical Tend Quality • Medical Tend Speed • Mining Speed • Mining Yield • Plant Harvest Yield • Plant Work Speed • Repair Success Chance • Research Speed • Smelting Speed • Smoothing Speed • Hacking Speed • Pruning Speed • Mech Work Speed Offset