Tech Specialist

Tech Specialist Job Training

Description

As a tech specialist, your abilities would rely heavily on your intelligence and aim. You’d learn to work with all kinds of technologies, perhaps even make your own robotic defense turrets! Your intellect would be your greatest weapon, though you wouldn’t shy away from tweaking your own high-tech ranged weaponry. The life of a tech specialist is one of profit through smart decisions and superior technology.

Class Specialties

Starter Items

• Melee Weapon: Knife
• Ranged Weapon: Scoped Pistol
• Armor: Dress Clothes
• Shield: Decent JoyCo shield generator

Perks

Steele gains class-specific perks for each level earned.

Perks

Level	Name	Description
2	Shield Tweaks	Grants your shield generator an additional 2 points of shield protection per level.
3	Static Burst	Grants the ability to briefly overload your shield emitter. The burst shocks any enemies in close proximity, freeing you from grapples for a small energy cost.
4	Armor Tweaks	Grants a 20% bonus to defense values provided by equipped armor.
5	Enhanced Dampeners	Grants a 50% vulnerability reduction to damage absorbed by your shield generator.
6	Shield Regen	Builds a redundancy into your shields that can reactivate them at 25% capacity once per fight after they drop.
7	Fight Smarter	Improves melee and ranged accuracy by a small portion of your intelligence.
8	Heroic Reserves	Raises your maximum energy reserves by 33, allowing you to use more special attacks before tiring.
9	Advanced Shielding	Grants a defense bonus to your shields equal to 20% of your intelligence.
10	Rapid Recharge	Grants passive shield regeneration on any turn where no damage is taken. Regenerates 20 shield at level 10.

Special Abilities

When choosing the special ability perks, Steele may attain abilities that fall under two specific themes to define the player's play style.

Specialization Theme

Level	Offensive	Defensive
2	Attack Drone	Shield Booster
3	Overcharge	Volley
4	Power Surge	Deflector Regeneration
5	Gravidic Disruptor	Thermal Disruptor
6	Gun Tweaks	Weapon Tweaks
7	Charge Shield	Shield Hack
8	Second Attack	Second Shot
9	Drone Control	Deadly Shock
10	Boosted Charges	Linked Emitters

Special Abilities

Level	Name	Description
1	Paralyzing Shock (Starter Ability)	An attack that allows you to paralyze a single foe. Characters with higher intelligence will have greater success using this skill.
2	Attack Drone	Grants an attack drone that will automatically fire on your enemies every combat round as long as your shields are up. The drone will also bolster your shields with its own, raising your maximum shielding by one point per level.
	Shield Booster	Grants a further increase to your shield generator, providing an additional eight points of protection per level.
3	Overcharge	Grants the ability to perform a single ranged attack for 200% normal damage. If the target's shields have been depleted, the shot may stun the target. Requires an energy weapon.
	Charge Weapon	Grants the ability to charge your melee weapon with electricity for even deadlier strikes!
4	Power Surge	Grants the ability to restore a moderate amount of shielding and 33 energy once per combat.
	Deflector Regeneration	Grants the ability to restore a moderate amount of shielding and 40 energy over four combat rounds once per combat. Effect is interrupted when shields are full.
5	Gravidic Disruptor	Grants the ability to deal Unresistable damage to targeted enemies.
	Thermal Disruptor	Grants the ability to deal Burning damage to your foes. Deals higher base damage than Gravidic Disruptor, but some enemies may be resistant to Burning damage.
6	Gun Tweaks	Allows you to do 20% additional damage with energy guns thanks to after-market modifications.
	Weapon Tweaks	Allows you to do 20% additional damage with melee energy weapons thanks to after-market modifications.
7	Charge Shield	Allows you to infuse your shield with a destructive electrical charge that can blind your foes when struck or damage melee attackers. Costs 15 energy and expires after being triggered twice.
	Shield Hack	Allows you to spend 25 energy to hack an enemy's shield, dealing very high shield damage.
8	Second Attack	Allows you to make a second, low-accuracy attack whenever you perform a melee attack.
	Second Shot	Allows you to make a second, low-accuracy attack whenever you shoot a ranged weapon.
9	Drone Control	Grants any drone you control (whether you made or acquired it) a damage bonus equal to 25% of your Intelligence.
	Deadly Shock	Boosts the amount of electrical current used for Paralyzing Shock, allowing it to do a moderate amount of electrical damage on top of the stun effect.
10	Boosted Charges	Enhances your gravidic and thermal charges' damage, and also provides secondary effects. Gravidic charge leaves a lingering field that reduces all kinetic damage dealt for three rounds. Thermal charge has a chance of lighting your foes on fire.
	Linked Emitters	Grants 5% critical hit chance with energy weapons while your shields are up.

Notes

The Fuck Sense Perk changes most of the Tech Specialists intelligence based effects to use libido in place of intelligence.

- Effective intelligence seems to be: (M) * (L/100)= Effective Intelligence, where M is Maximum Intelligence and L is libido.

The bonus shot provided by Second Shot does not have an accuracy reduction if the ranged weapon used has the "Bonus Hit Rate" flag.