Brain unit

- You can attach or detach your brain unit
- Brain inventory preserved
- You can’t detach brain when assault has already started
- Brain unit has separate life support system and don’t use life support points
- Thanks to this brain unit can walk in open space
- Brain unit may participate in missions, it will receive exp-points if mission was successful
- When brain unit is on the battlefield communication points are not used, because brain controls units locally without using ship as a relay
- With each level brain receives one skill point, which you can spend to make brain unit more powerful
- You can spend skill points only when brain is attached
- Each player has his own brain, and spends skill points separately
- Each level give +1 HP to brain regardless of skill points
- Brain units must be attached if you start mission without brain, because brain unit must be connected to ship’s communication systems to control troops on the surface


Brain skills

- Skills are activated via a single element in pie-menu
- Scanner skill shows units nearby. Blue – friendly, red – hostiles, which can be hit directly, yellow – hidden hostile, green – brain’s aiming dot.
- Scanner levels increase scanner range
- You can toggle scanner on and off
- Quantum splitter converts item’s mass to quants, which then can be used to produce simple items
- Only one random item available at start but you can fund other blueprints in abandoned ships
- Splitter levels increase splitting effectiveness
- Healing skills fix units completely including wounds etc.
- Telekinesis skill are the same skills as Psyclone’s, but units don’t affect each other and immune to psi-inhibitors and psi-catalysts
- After some level brain will start to regenerate, and regeneration speed will be higher with each level
- Brain skills recharge when brain is attached to the ship


Bombs

- You can buy bombs in item shop
- To request an orbital strike select LZ and press left or right. Select payload using UP,DOWN then press FIRE to start targeting. Press FIRE to start orbital strike
- Payload capacity depends on number of bomb bays, each can hold up to 5 bombs
- Bombs launched simultaneously by every bay
- Orbital strike is less accurate when bombing unseen area
- You can't sell bombs


Ship navigation

- You can upgrade or change your ship only on SHIPYARD locations, Trade Star is only a shop now
- You can buy powerful weapons at BLACK MARKET locations using the usual shop panels
- Item selection at BLACK MARKET is randomized and change from time to time
- Prices on those items and actors are extreme


Assaults and counterattacks

- You can counterattack invaders after assault but the time to put your troops together is very limited
- Successful counter attack increases your reputation with attacking faction without any other penalties
- Counterattacks are quite hard and that’s intentionally
- All items left on the ship after assault will be collected automatically if you choose to counterattack


Turrets

- You can buy turrets in ordinary body shops
- Turrets are stored in separate storage because they are controlled and distributed by separate ship subsystem
- Turrets are spawned automatically when needed and removed after that
- Turrets don’t need life support points
- If turret was destroyed the last time it was deployed turret point becomes empty and player need to load another turret there
- You can’t sell turrets
- Vanilla turrets are always available, any other turrets need to be unlocked with enough reputation

Missions

- All items are collected automatically if no hostiles left on the map
- You don’t need to return to LZ if no hostiles left on the map
- You MUST return to LZ if there is at least one hostile unit on the map, any units not close enough will be abandoned, including brain units


Reputation

- Complete missions to improve reputation
- If you fail or abort mission you’ll get reputation penalties from both sides
- Reputation unlocks items available at the trade star
- It does not matter what faction is your main, only your reputation speaks for you


Other

- TDExplosives take ten times less space in storage
- You can disable vanilla scenes, but make sure you have other enabled