In the Retrospectre world, characters can enhance themselves with cybernetic implants and augmentations to gain various advantages, but such enhancements come with both benefits and drawbacks. Here’s a broad guide to cyberware and augmentations.:
- Cybernetic Limbs:
- Description: Replacing limbs with cybernetic counterparts grants enhanced strength, speed, and agility.
- Advantages: Increased melee combat effectiveness, superior physical performance, and resistance to certain attacks.
- Drawbacks: Potential loss of finesse in delicate tasks, susceptibility to EMP and other disabling effects.
- Datajack:
- Description: A direct neural interface to access the digital world, allowing characters to interact with computers and networks through their mind.
- Advantages: Faster data processing, quick hacking abilities, and improved perception in virtual environments.
- Drawbacks: Vulnerability to cyber-attacks and mental intrusion, potential data corruption.
- Enhanced Optics:
- Description: Cybernetic eyes that provide enhanced vision capabilities and augmented reality overlays.
- Advantages: Improved accuracy in ranged combat, ability to see in low light or through obstacles, and analyzing information from a distance.
- Drawbacks: Vulnerability to flashbangs or blinding effects, potential interference from electronic disruptions.
- Neural Firewall:
- Description: An advanced cyber-defense system that protects against mind-intrusions and manipulations.
- Advantages: Enhanced resistance to mental attacks, immunity to certain forms of mind control.
- Drawbacks: Possible reduction in empathetic connections with others, difficulty in trusting others.
- Cybernetic Brain Boosters:
- Description: Implants that enhance memory, cognitive processing, and problem-solving abilities.
- Advantages: Improved intelligence, quicker decision-making in high-pressure situations.
- Drawbacks: Increased risk of neural overload or mental fatigue, potential addiction to overusing the implants.
- Bio-Chem Enhancers:
- Description: Nanotech-infused implants that enhance physical capabilities and self-regeneration.
- Advantages: Increased stamina, faster healing, and improved resistance to toxins.
- Drawbacks: Dependency on the enhancement chemicals, potential side effects or long-term health risks.
- Cybernetic Respirator:
- Description: A breathing apparatus for survival in hazardous environments or combat gas attacks.
- Advantages: Protection against airborne toxins, underwater breathing, and enhanced lung capacity.
- Drawbacks: Limited oxygen supply, vulnerability to EMP or damage to the respirator.
Players can choose from a list of available cyberware and augmentations, each with its own advantages and drawbacks. When determining the success of using these enhancements in the binary flip system, certain traits and skills may be more relevant. For instance, using enhanced optics in combat may involve the “Perception” attribute, while hacking with a datajack may depend on the “Intelligence” attribute and “Modding” skill. This integration of cyberware with the binary flip system adds depth and complexity to character development and gameplay in the game universe.