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{{name}} is a lower cost and [[feet]]-exclusive [[cybernetics|cybernetic implant]] which improves the user's {{favilink| jump}} range by 4. Allowing for jumps of up to 6 tiles at a time. Jumps can be performed in any direction including diagonally provided there aren't any same-[[phase]] [[creatures]] or [[occluding]] objects in the way. Pools of liquid and non-occluding objects such as {{favilink|low wall|plural}} do not share this restriction.
==Advantages & Disadvantages==
{{opinion}}
===Advantages===
*Low cost allows for easy installation without much impact on the user's abitly to install additional implants.
*Excellent repositioning tool.
*Can jump away even while engaged in melee-[[combat]] unlike a {{favilink|pentaceps}} enhanced{{favilink|charge}}.
*Useful for ranged characters in order to quickly put distance between themselves and enemies.
===Disadvantages===
*Generally made irrelevant by a properly supported {{favilink|high-fidelity matter recompositer}} or other movement tools.
*Jump's cooldown is fairly long without high willpower, potentially limiting overall use.
*Requires that the user is capable of jumping in order to actually do anything.
==Tips==
*Can be used along with {{favilink|penetrating radar}} and some sort of [[phase|phasing]] such as {{favilink|shade oil injector|plural}} in order to jump long distances through [[walls]] and hostile creatures.
*Can be used with the {{favilink|juke}} [[skill]] to easily escape danger while compeltly surrounded.
*Can make navigating the lower-strata of the {{favilink| Asphalt mines}} easier by enabling jumps over large pools of {{favilink|lava}}.
*The bonus stacks with other jump-boosting effects such as from the {{favilink|wings}} [[mutation]] or {{favilink|rocket skates}}.
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Revision as of 03:09, 21 May 2025

pneumatic pistons
$
120.00
Commerce Value
8
lbs.
Weight
Complexity

3

Character

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PneumaticPistons

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Items

[Implant] - pneumatic pistons

Compressed gas drives piston rods into musculature powdered with graphite dust and sends the jumper soaring.

Your Jump range is increased by 4 spaces.

Target body parts: Feet
License points: 2
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes

Perfect
Cybernetic Info
License point cost

2

Slots

Feet

Destroyed when removed

No

pneumatic pistons is a lower cost and feet-exclusive cybernetic implant which improves the user's Jump range by 4. Allowing for jumps of up to 6 tiles at a time. Jumps can be performed in any direction including diagonally provided there aren't any same-phase creatures or occluding objects in the way. Pools of liquid and non-occluding objects such as low walls do not share this restriction.

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

  • Low cost allows for easy installation without much impact on the user's abitly to install additional implants.
  • Excellent repositioning tool.
  • Can jump away even while engaged in melee-combat unlike a pentaceps enhancedCharge.
  • Useful for ranged characters in order to quickly put distance between themselves and enemies.

Disadvantages

  • Generally made irrelevant by a properly supported high-fidelity matter recompositer or other movement tools.
  • Jump's cooldown is fairly long without high willpower, potentially limiting overall use.
  • Requires that the user is capable of jumping in order to actually do anything.

Tips