Upgrades Discussion: Nightcap Upgrades!

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Unique Upgrades

Piercing Power (2 upgrade points): When you deal damage to multiple enemies using the piercing ability of Spore Strike, you gain 10 ammo. You can actually increase your maximum ammo capacity this way, up to 60 total ammo at once. The maximum ammo boost is temporary and does not carry over reloads, until you trigger it again with the piercing effect. This is great for continuous fire without the need to reload at all, and you can deal damage much more efficiency with piercing and constant ammo resupply.

Parkour (3 upgrade points): Your second jump has a faster movement speed, depending on which direction you are travelling. It does not affect the movement speed of going forwards, but you gain a movement speed of 20% when moving backwards or 40% when moving sideways, and this only applies to your second jump. This upgrade is useful for dodging attacks, becoming more agile, confusing your enemies in where you are and for getting around more easily.

Spore-ratic (3 upgrade points): The velocity or projectile speed of your Spore Strike is increased by about 100% (or double). Your attacks will travel much faster, so your enemies will have less time to react to your shots and will more likely get hit by them. If you can get close to your enemies, your shots will land on your enemies almost instantly. Use this to your advantage by constantly attacking your enemies with these high velocity Spore Strikes, and try to change directions frequently to confuse your enemies even more about where you are.

Clear Coating (3 upgrade points): You gain 50% armor when you are invisible, meaning you will actually take half damage while invisible. This can be done with your Casting Shadows, a different Casting Shadows, or your Shadow Sneak. This is very useful for escaping with minimal damage taken, especially if enemies had noticed you and know which kind of area you are in, or to sneak around and attack your enemies by surprise while trying to avoid taking as much damage as possible from random enemy attacks.

Unique Ability Upgrades

Casting Shadows

Incubate (2 upgrade points): If you revive allies inside of your Casting Shadows, you revive them twice as fast, or in other words, it only takes half as long to successfully revive them. This is really useful if you wish to revive allies as the Casting Shadows already hides you from enemies, and the faster revive will leave you vulnerable for even less time. Your ally will have temporary protection from the Casting Shadows once you have revived them as well. You may also be able to revive multiple allies quickly if you throw your Casting Shadows over multiple fallen allies, making this upgrade even more useful in that situation.

Corrode (3 upgrade points): Any enemy that is trapped by Casting Shadows are further restricted in other ways. Enemies in the Casting Shadows suffer additional penalties while caught in it, such as losing ammo or overheating faster, increasing the time it takes for their attacks to charge up and stopping the refresh timer of their abilities completely while trapped. This will make it even harder for those enemies to escape and will not be able to attack as often, rendering your enemies close to useless and will make it even easier for you and your allies to vanquish those affected enemies. 

Fung Fu

Fleet Footed (3 upgrade points): You are able to jump and move about 40% faster while you are using your Fung Fu, meaning that you are more mobile during your Fung Fu. You can use this to chase enemies who are trying to escape your Fung Fu or you can jump to make yourself even harder to hit again and hit enemies that are currently in the air. This should make you less vulnerable during your Fung Fu start up time and when it ends as well. You normally have reduced movement speed while using this ability and cannot jump, but you can mitigate these effects with this upgrade.

Uppercut (3 upgrade points): Dealing damage to your enemies with Fung Fu knocks your enemies up into the air and deals slight knockback to them as well, but you should be able to continue dealing damage to them. This actually makes it much harder for the enemies to escape your Fung Fu and the slight knockback can be really useful in particular situations. This should leave enemies more vulnerable while in the air as they can more easily be shot by your allies and they mostly lose control of their movement for a short time as well, so these extra effects can really prove to be useful.

Shadow Sneak

Shadow Tribute (3 upgrade points): When you vanquish an enemy, you immediately gain a slot of Shadow Sneak, which is great as this can be used to vanquish an enemy and then escape, even if you did not have a charge of Shadow Sneak available before. This allows you to deal sneak attacks more effectively, as you can keep changing positions and confusing your enemies as to where you are. Getting multiple vanquishes will give you all your stacks of Shadow Sneak back, so this upgrade is great in keeping you cloaked for longer and allowing for more frequent sneak attacks.

Shadow Sling (4 upgrade points): You teleport a short distance in front of you when you activate Shadow Sneak, which can be massively helpful as the distance will make it much easier for you to escape, as you have travelled much further in a much shorter amount of time. This can actually allow you to escape certain enemy abilities that would trap you in place, so this upgrade can really prove to be useful. This can be used to become even more unpredictable with your movement, as you cannot normally teleport by default, and the teleport allows you to dodge lots of enemy attacks quickly and for a much quicker escape as well. When you have this upgrade, you can revive your allies while you are in Shadow Sneak.

That is all of the upgrades covered for Nightcap! The upgrades allow you to become more agile, stealthy, escape more easily in tough situations or to deal higher damage to your enemies. Some of these upgrades will prove to be really effective in particular situations or when you play in PvE modes, although generally the more powerful upgrades will be worth a higher amount of points, so these upgrades seem relatively balanced. You have choices of plenty of different upgrades, allowing you to customise your upgrades for your particular style.