Beautiful visage

beautiful visage

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$ 180.00 Commerce Value 1 lb. Weight
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - beautiful visage

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Instructions dictate the reformation of the face into a countenance that arouses latent desires in its onlookers.

+2 Ego

Target body parts: Face
License points: 3
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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beautiful visage is a moderate cost cybernetic implant which upon installation provides the user with a +2 boost to Ego.

The bonus unlike boosts from equipment and much like the points obtained from leveling count towards the attribute requirements for certain skills. Additionally, the extra ego provides the user with lowered merchant prices and +1 to ego related saves as well as improving the effectiveness of various ego-influenced skills.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Advantages

• Can be used along with Berate in order to improve the likelihood of recruiting creatures with Proselytize.
• Can be installed and uninstalled at the user's leisure, allowing for easy temporary installation when looking to benefit from the lowered trading prices.
• Improves the effectiveness of Intimidate and Menacing Stare.

Disadvantages

• Limited utility in combat without specialization or investment into ego skills.
• Can be fully replaced by injecting two Eaters' nectar injectors and boosting ego, freeing up the faceslot for an implant with effects that cannot be as easily replicated, such as custom visage, optical multiscanner, holographic visage or intravenous port.
• Moderate cost can be a bit prohibitive depending on the user's license tier and build goals.

Acquistion

By nature of being a cybernetic implant, it is not necessarily guaranteed to find beautiful visage in a given playthrough, especially when the relatively limited availability of cybernetics (compared to other items) is taken into consideration. However, despite this scarcity, there are specific places where the user can look in order to maximize their chances of a successful acquisition.

• Due to beautiful visage being considered a mid-tier implant, the following sources provide the greatest odds of finding a copy:
  • Ezra's tinkerer Yla Haj who offers a non-restocking selection of 6-8 cybernetics taken from the tier 5 cybernetics drop table.
  • village tinkers from villages which happen to spawn in mid-tier zones such as jungles, Rivers or banana groves can, upon restock, sometimes offer 2-4 implants taken from the zone's corresponding cybernetics table.
  • Historical sites which spawn in mid-tier zones like the mountains or Rainbow Wood, have a chance of containing becoming nooks which each hold 1-2 zone-tier appropriate implants. The locations of such historical sites can be obtained with some reliability by water-ritualing legendary members of the Putus Templar and trading for secrets.
  • The cybernetics ward on strata 13 of Bethesda Susa contains 4 becoming nooks which together provide 4-8 implants taken from the tier 4 cybernetics drop table.
  • Certain lower-ranking members of the Putus Templar such as Knight Templars, Banner-Knight Templars and Gunner-Knight Templars have a 25% chance of spawning with the implanted prefix. Which, when killed and butchered drop cybernetics pulled from the cybernetics 4 table at 80% efficiency.

• Alternatively, if the user would rather guarantee eventual access to a copy of beautiful visage, they can take the following action:
  • Under normal circumstances, the guaranteed gutsmonger present at the Six Day Stilt only provides a restocking inventory of 6-8 implants taken from the cybernetics 1 drop table. However, gutsmongers, unlike most other merchants, adjust the tier of their wares to correspond with whatever zone they are currently standing within. This essentially means, that if the user were to make a gutsmonger a follower, such as by using the Proselytize skill or a love injector, the user could then transport said gutsmonger to a mid-tier location such as Ezra, in order to have access to a permanent and restocking source of mid-tier implants.
  • The newly transported gutsmonger can then be cloned with a rebuked cloneling in order to massively increase the number of cybernetics available each restock. Allowing the user with enough dedicated farms to eventually obtain any implant of any tier.

Tips

• Having the implant installed effectively provides the user with 6 levels worth of attribute points into ego, meaning that if the user were to find and install beautiful visages such as by moving the zone-tier adjusting gutsmonger one of which always spawns at the Six Day Stilt to a mid-tier location like Ezra and then taking advantage of the adjusted wares. The user with enough skill points would then be able to access various skills which require ego at an earlier stage than normal. Such skills include:
  • Proselytize
  • Inspiring Presence
  • Snake Oiler
• Additional ego can synergize well with builds which make use of social coprocessor. Social coprocessor with sufficient compute power can allow the user to recruit multiple creatures with the Proselytize skill, the extra ego can then make the requirement process slighty easier as well as allowing the user's new followers to receive higher Max HP from the Inspiring Presence skill.