Glass-Shield Cloaking System (DXMD)

Glass-Shield Cloaking System returns as an augmentation in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided with many of the same features from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It is useful for stealth mode and has the capability to get past laser systems when active.

Description

 * The Glass-Shield Cloaking system allows the user to turn invisible for short periods of time. It achieves this by generating a carefully tuned, spherical, electromagnetic field that can control the refraction of light in the user's immediate vicinity. In essence, this field steers light around the user and returns it to its original path with a perturbation rate of less than 3%. Melee combat defeats the system and thus triggers deactivation.


 * The Glass-Shield also renders the user invisible to laser security systems.


 * Turn invisible for a short period of time. Movement significantly increases energy drain.
 * Activation cost: 2 Praxis
 * Activation: manual
 * Energy consumption: high

Discreet Power Processing

 * In order to process the electromagnetic patterns of the local environment on a millisecond-to-millisecond basis, the Glass-Shield Cloaking System draws energy through a discreet biocell energy processor installed in the user's brain. when first implanted, users can operate their cloak for only very brief periods. This can be improved through optimization of the EM field generator.


 * Power the invisibility effect with biocell energy.
 * Upgrade Requirement: Glass-Shield Cloaking
 * Activation cost: N/A
 * Activation: manual
 * Energy consumption: high

Improved Cloaking Energy Use

 * Optimization of the code that generates and controls the electromagnetic field can reduce the Glass-Shield's power requirements.


 * One significant improvement alters the physical structure of the EM field by producing alternating vertical pillars of stronger electromagnetic activity. These pillars filter incoming and outgoing rays of light, much like breaks at seaports.


 * The cloaking effect is the same but requires less energy, thus increasing the length of time the effect can be sustained.


 * Increase the duration of the invisibility effect.
 * Upgrade Requirement: Discreet Power Processing
 * Activation cost: 1 Praxis
 * Activation: passive
 * Energy consumption: medium

Optimized Cloaking Energy Use

 * Further optimization of the electromagnetic field-generating code allows the augmentation to identify the precise three-dimensional location within the EM sphere where alteration of light pathing is required to maintain user invisibility. The generator then limits its perturbation of the EM field only to those areas.


 * Greatly increase the duration of the invisibility effect.
 * Upgrade Requirement: Improved Cloaking Energy Use
 * Activation cost: 1 Praxis
 * Activation: passive
 * Energy consumption: low

Cloaked Takedown Support

 * Prior to this upgrade, any melee combat performed by the user will disrupt the cloaking effect. This is because the EM field generator must remotely sense the user's physical dimensions and extend the field only to encompass those expected dimensions. If the user comes into contact with another person, the generator cannot calculate the field size accurately and so terminates the cloak.


 * This upgrade taps into the user's nervous system and sends constant digital pings throughout the body's synaptic connections, thus allowing for precise mapping and sensing of the user's physical location. Thus, when another person enters the EM field, the generator knows to ignore them and may perpetuate the invisibility effect.


 * Execute combat takedowns without canceling the invisibility effect.
 * Upgrade Requirement: Discreet Power Processing
 * Activation cost: 1 Praxis
 * Activation: passive
 * Energy consumption: low