Skin glitter (high-tier)

skin glitter

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$ 120.00 Commerce Value 0 lbs. Weight
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - skin glitter

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A fractal lattice of dermal applique conducts the inner glow to the outer world.

+16% chance to refract light-based attacks

Target body parts: Back, Body
License points: 2
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

	2
	Back • Body
	No

skin glitter is a lower cost cybernetic implant which grants the user an 16% chance to refract light-based attacks. The bonus from skin glitter like other sources of refraction does not directly stack with any other, even from another installed skin glitter. Instead, each individual source of refraction is calculated separately, meaning that two implanted skin glitters will not give a single 32% chance of refraction but instead two individual 16% chances to refract. This gives a 29.44% chance and in general translates to a lower overall chance of success than if the percentages were added together directly.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Advantages

• Low cost, allowing for easy temporary installation in the absence of more impactful implants
• The Light refraction can provide valuable (albeit limited) protection against certain early game enemies capable of light-based attacks. Such as the low-light laser turrets and laser turrets commonly found inruins.
• Enemies capable of light-based damage are reasonably common in the later game.

Disadvantages

• Only a small chance to successfully refract a given light-based attack.
• Becomes largely irrelevant once the user has access to a more effective form of refraction such as rainboweave cloak.

Tips

• Can be used be used to help mitigate the temporary double vulnerability to light-based damage from consuming skulk injectors.
• Provides protection from the otherwise completely deadly but refractable Lithifying Gaze emitted by the lithofex.
• Can be somewhat safely slotted for the protection against light-based ranged damage by melee focused charecters who don't generally need to install certain back cyberntics such as gun rack and phase-adaptive scope.