Skillsoft (high SP)

Skillsoft [high sp]

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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - Skillsoft [high sp]

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Encoded on this chip are the neural patterns of a particular skill.

You gain a skill whose cost is greater than 151 SP.

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

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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	Head
	No

Skillsoft [high sp] is a Skillsoft cybernetic which provides access to a random regular skill worth more than 150 skillpoints. In practice since all skills with the exception of Acrobatics always cost a multiple of 50 and do not go above 400, the provided skill will always have a value of either 200, 250, 300, 350 or 400 skill points. The gained skill can be used as a prerequisite for buying other skills, which will remain even if the skillsoft is uninstalled and its skill forgotten.

Advantages & Disadvantages

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

Advantages

• Has a smaller pool of eligible skills compared to other skillsofts, noticeably improving the odds of finding something useful.
• Can provide access to various skills such as Tinker III or Fastest Gun in the Rust which otherwise often have prohibitive attribute requirements.
• Certain eligible skills, such as Weapon Mastery, can provide a substantial power boost, especially if found early.

Disadvantages

• In many situations, most skills can be learned normally over the course of a run, freeing up the valuable headslot for other slot-exclusive implants such as inflatable axons or nocturnal apex.
• Despite the comparatively smaller pool, the provided skill is still random, limiting usefulness without some luck.

Eligible skills

Skill	Cost
Disorienting Fire	200
Flattening Fire	200
Beacon Fire	200
Ultra Fire	300
Demolish	300
Weathered	200
Calloused	200
Longstrider	250
Sweep	200
Lunge	200
Dueling Stance	200
Swipe	200
En Garde!	300
Multiweapon Mastery	200
Intimidate	200

Skill	Cost
Proselytize	300
Inspiring Presence	250
Dead Shot	200
Empty the Clips	300
Fastest Gun in the Rust	400
Swift Blocking	200
Deft Blocking	200
Staggering Block	200
Shield Wall	200
Rejoinder	250
Shank	250
Penetrating Strikes	200
Weapon Mastery	300
Juke	200
Tinker II	200

Skill	Cost
Tinker III	300
Tomorrowful	200

Acquistion

By nature of being a cybernetic implant, it is not necessarily guaranteed to find Skillsoft [high sp] 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 Skillsoft [high sp] 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 Skillsoft [high sp], 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

• Is essentially the only way to learn the tomorrowful skill without purchasing it from _ during the water ritual
• Can make for a good way to store wealth, due to its weightlessness.
• Its weightlessness makes it trivial to carry around for temporary installation when needed, provided the user has access to a becoming nook.