Electromagnetic sensor

electromagnetic sensor

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$ 60.00 Commerce Value 0 lbs. Weight
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	ElectromagneticSensor
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - electromagnetic sensor

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Small distortions in the electromagnetic field caused by machine folk are visible to this sensor.

You detect nearby robots without having to see them.

Target body parts: Head, Face, Back, Body, Feet, Arm, Hands
License points: 1
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes
Compute Power on the local lattice increases this item's range.

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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	Head • Face • Back • Body • Feet • Arm • Hands
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An electromagnetic sensor is a cybernetic that allows the player to detect robotic creatures within a radius of 9 tiles regardless of light level or occluding objects. Similarly to Heightened Hearing, the implant only provides an outline of nearby robots, preventing the usage of look for additional information. The implant is not guaranteed to immediately identify creatures, with some detected robots initially being represented by a ? tile, which may take multiple turns to be fully identified. If a creature leaves the implant's radius for any reason, they may need to be identified again.

Formula

The following formula is used to determine the maximum range at which the user is able to detect robots, based on compute power.

Robot detection range	9 X (100+ compute power)/100

Compute Power Table

Compute Power	Range
10	9 tiles
20	10 tiles
30	11 tiles
40	12 tiles
50	13 tiles
60	14 tiles
70	15 tiles
80	16 tiles
90	17 tiles
100	18 tiles

Compute Power	Range
110	18 tiles
120	19 tiles
130	20 tiles
140	21 tiles
150	22 tiles
160	23 tiles
170	24 tiles
180	25 tiles
190	26 tiles
200	27 tiles

Compute Power	Range
210	27 tiles
220	28 tiles
230	29 tiles
240	30 tiles
250	31 tiles
260	32 tiles
270	33 tiles
280	34 tiles
290	35 tiles
300	36 tiles

Advantages & Disadvantages

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

Advantages

• Only costs 1 license point and can be installed into any cybernetics slot, allowing a high degree of flexibility.
• Relatively easy to find or purchase.
• Can help prevent deadly early game ambushes from chaingun turrets.
• Immune to EMP blasts.

Disadvantages

• Disrupts auto-explore and cannot be deactivated without uninstalling.
• Takes up a cybernetics slot which could be replaced with the similarly functioning but broadly more useful penetrating radar.

Tips

• Creatures detected by the implant can be manually fired upon. This works with phase-adaptive scope, allowing the user to attack visible enemies through walls.
• Unlike penetrating radar, this implant is capable of detecting creatures through forcefields, letting the user use a phase-adaptive scope to target chrome pyramids from a safe distance through walls.