Vertigo pulse

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Vertigo pulse

Vertigo pulse

Interfere with the spatial orientation sense of everyone near the target point, causing intermittent loss of balance. Flesh creatures will become extremely nauseous as well.

Base Stats

Type
Psycast

Ability

Psylink Level
3
Psyfocus Cost
2%
Neural Heat Gain
30
Casting Time
60 ticks (1 sec)
Range
24.9 tiles
Effect Radius
3.9 tiles
Duration
1,200 ticks (20 secs)
(Modified by Psychic Sensitivity)
Goodwill Impact
-15

Vertigo pulse is a level 3 psycast that causes pawns in its area of effect to repeatedly vomit.

Acquisition

There are two ways to acquire Vertigo pulse:

  1. A randomly selected level 3 psycast is granted to the psycaster when they gain psylink level 3. Vertigo pulse is one of the options that may be selected. Note that this occurs regardless of how the psylink level is gained.
  2. Vertigo pulse can also be acquired from a psytrainer naming it. See the psytrainer page for further details.

Summary

Goodwill penalty doesn't apply to lodgers.

Analysis

Despite the seemingly weak effect, vertigo pulse makes enemies stop attacking, they also wander out of cover. This means it can turn the tide of pitched battles, so long as you can clump enemies effectively for targeting and you have enough damage potential to exploit the opening.

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