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ATTAcHmENTS
An attachment gives you an extra bonus for your weapon’s stats or capabilities. You can apply
two attachments to each weapon. Depending on your combat needs, choose an attachment that
subtly boosts the damage you deal with a new feature, such as fire damage or Stasis, or select
an attachment that increases clip size for yourself and your partner, automatically reloads your
weapon, or heals a partner when you consume a Med Pack.
cIRcUITS
Circuits give your weapon bonuses to reload, rate of fire, damage, or clip. To begin adding
Circuits, select an empty Circuit slot and select one of these features from the menu that appears,
then add any Circuit you have found, or craft a new one by selecting CONSTRUCT NEW CIRCUIT.
Each Frame comes with a specific number of Circuit slots. If your weapon has fewer than eight
Circuit slots, you can unlock more with Tungsten.
Some Circuits have a single boost, such as +2 Damage, while others have two, such as +1
Reload +1 Rate of Fire. If you see a Circuit with minor structural flaws, noted in the description on
the right side of the screen, it means the Circuit has a bonus at the expense of another feature.
For instance, +2 Rate of Fire -1 Damage gives you a faster firing speed at the expense of
damage dealt.
cOmPLETING cONSTRUcTION
When you’re finished designing your weapon, press the
D
button to create a blueprint for it (to
share with your Friends in co-op games), or press the
A
button to construct it.
mOdIfYING A WEAPON
At the Bench, select WEAPON CRAFTING and choose a weapon to modify or upgrade it. This takes
you to the weapon construction menu, where you can change or add Tools, Tips, Attachments,
and Circuits to your weapons. If you only want to upgrade a weapon with Circuits, select
WEAPON UPGRADES from the Modify Weapons menu to skip the entire weapon
construction menu.
cRAfTING ITEmS
Crafting items using resources adds valuables to your inventory when you can’t find enough in
containers. Craftable items include ammo clips, Med Packs, Stasis packs, and Tungsten Torque
Bars. Each item in the list has a number on the right that tells you how many you already have in
your Inventory.
All of the items you craft take up room in your inventory—though you can add an unlimited
number of Tungsten Torque Bars because they stack in a single slot. To sell an item and gain
resources as payment, select it from the list and press the
D
button. Just remember that the
resources you receive for selling an item are typically only half of the resources that go into
crafting the item in the first place. You can also share items by pressing the
F
button in co-op
games.
SAfE INVENTORY
The Bench gives you access to your Safe Inventory, so you can move items from your Safe to the
RIG Inventory for use. To view your inventory at the Bench, select SAFE from the Bench menu.
To move an item from the RIG Inventory to the Safe Inventory or vice versa, select the item and
press the
S
button. Once an item is in your Safe Inventory, you cannot access it until you are at a
Bench. To sell an item, press the
D
button.
