Upgrades Overhaul

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This remains a work in progress. Certain details are subject to change and adjustment.

Tune Ups:

• Tune Ups increase a chosen stat by +1.
• A mobile suit can have a maximum number of Tune Ups equal to its Tier-1. Half-tier suits round up.
• Tuning Up costs 150 x Tier. Once a stat has been Tuned Up equal to half the Mobile Suit's tier, the cost doubles to 300 x Tier.
• Innate bonuses on a Mobile Suit count as Tune Ups for the purposes of cost and maximum number of Tune Ups

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Core Upgrades:

• Core upgrades come with a +1 boost to a given stat and an additional active function.
• There is no cap to stats gained from Core Upgrades.
• Core upgrades cost a universal price of 200 x Tier
• Core upgrades are equipped to certain parts of the mobile suit: Head, arms, legs, back, torso, internals and systems. You can only have two upgrades installed per part. Some upgrades may equip to multiple parts of the mobile suit.
• Unless otherwise stated, you cannot stack multiple copies of any given core upgrade.

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Specialty Upgrades:

• Specialty upgrades rarely grant direct bonuses to offensive stats, instead offering unique and specialized bonuses depending on terrain and combat methods.
• Specialty Upgrades cost a universal price of 175 x Tier
• A Mobile Suit can have up to four separate specialty upgrades installed onto a single mobile suit.

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External Equipment:

• External equipment grant a variety of benefits, though rarely in terms of direct offensive power.
• Most external equipment come with their own durability, and thus can be destroyed similar to shields and weaponry.
• External equipment prices very based on weight, value, and the strength of their benefits.
• True to the name, external equipment is primarily equipped outside of the mobile suit's central systems. As such, it's easy to swap them out between deployments.
• There is no specific limit to the amount of external equipment a mobile suit can have, but weight capacity must be kept in mind.
• Unless otherwise specified, most external equipment cannot stack on top of one another; one type of backpack cannot be equipped on top of another, and multiple types of external armor cannot be equipped.

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Armor Upgrades:

• Armor upgrades change out the composition of your mobile suits armor, granting various effects based on the material and the technologies equipped.
• Due to differences in structure and technology, unless otherwise noted a Mobile Suit cannot have multiple armor types equipped.
• To change a Mobile Suit's armor means to essentially rebuild its outer layer and certain inner works from scratch. Thus you can only change your armor type every three deployments at most.
• In addition to time, there is also the matter of resources and materials. If your Mobile Suit has already been equipped with a non-stacking armor upgrade, you must pay half the price of the original upgrade in addition to the price of your new armor type.

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Core Upgrades:

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Speed:

• Extra Thrusters
  Location: Back
  Passive: +1 Speed
  Active (Swift action): When you make a Disengage or Charge action, you can choose to raise the success DC by 2. If you succeed against this new DC, you remain at your new range for one additional turn (to a total of three). This does not stack with a critical success.
  
• Volatile Accelerant
  Location: Internals
  Passive: +1 Speed
  Active (Swift action): You can spend an action to infuse your fuel with accelerant, drastically increasing your speed at the cost of structural integrity and handling. For the next three turns you gain +4 speed, but any attack that successfully hits you during this time is an automatic critical hit. Additionally if you make a Charge or Disengage attempt you must make a DC12 Reaction check after your attempt; on a failure you lose control and crash, taking damage equal to your modified Speed x20 and negating all bonuses to your ER until the start of your next turn. You can only use Volatile Accelerant once per deployment.
  
• Leg-Mounted Thrusters
  Location: Legs
  Passive: +1 Speed
  Active (1 actions): Extra thrusters installed in the calves and/or feet of a mobile suit for improved speed and maneuverability. Once per turn you can launch yourself into the air to perform a melee attack against an airborne enemy. The resulting fall and landing inflicts a -2 ER penalty until the start of your next turn.
  Special: Flight-capable suits instead gain +1 on charge attempts against airborne targets. Hover-capable suits can spend a swift action to slow their fall, negating the ER penalty.
• Enlarged Fuel Tanks
  Fuel tanks with higher capacity installed on the mobile suit, granted it more fuel for stronger thrust over longer periods of time.
  Location: Back
  Passive: +1 Speed
  Active (Free action): When making a Charge or Disengage action, you can choose to spend fuel from these tanks to gain a +2 bonus to your attempt. The fuel tanks have enough capacity to be used three times during deployment before running empty, and must be refueled to be used again.
  

Mobility:

• Enhanced Power Flow
  Improved systems installed throughout the mobile suit, allowing power to be more efficiently directed through its limbs.
  Location: Internal
  Passive: +1 Mobility
  Active (2 actions): Make a melee attack roll against a target enemy; if it hits your attack does additional damage equal to your mobility modifier x20. This attack cannot critically hit.
• Reinforced Frame
  Location: Body (Torso, Arms, & Legs)
  Passive: +1 Mobility
  Active (Swift action): Your suits inner structures are reinforced for brawling and heavy beatings. If you are hit with a physical melee weapon, you can make a Redirection attempt without shield bonuses (if any). If successful you reduce the damage by an amount equal to your melee bonus, and until the end of your turn your next attack gains the benefits of Ambush against the attacking enemy.
  Special: Heavy mobile suits and suits with external armor equipped gain a +2 bonus to this Redirection roll, while light mobile suits take a -2 penalty.
• Motion Range Tuning (Melee)
  Location: Internal
  Passive: +1 Mobility
  Active (2 actions): Your suit has been fine tuned to have a higher range of motion, allowing faster reactions and greater maneuverability. As a full-round action you can take evasive maneuvers; until the end of your turn add your Mobility to your ER before determining if an enemy attack(s) is successful.
• High-Tuned Motors
  Location: Limbs (Both Arms & Legs)
  Passive: +1 Mobility
  Active (Swift action): The motors in your suits limbs have been tuned to compensate for frequent, aggressive movements. If you perform a Flurry with light or strike melee weapons (including unarmed strikes), you can choose to either negate the accuracy penalty or add half your melee bonus to all attacks (this bonus stacks with any feats that grant bonus damage while dual-wielding). The decision must be made before rolling your attacks.
• Close-Range Sensors
  Location: Systems
  Passive: +1 Mobility
  Active: (Swift action): Your suit is equipped with a sensitive targeting system designed to assist in exploiting vulnerabilities and gaps in the defenses of enemy units. While in close range you can spend a swift action to analyze your enemy; that enemy takes a penalty on attempts to redirect or parry your attacks equal to half your mobility (rounded up) until the close-range period ends.

Aim:

• Targeting Peripheral
  A head-installed peripheral that uses enhanced camera and targeting systems to improve a suit's performance in sniping and long-range combat.
  Location: Head
  Passive: +1 Aim
  Active (1 action): After activation gain a +2 ranged bonus against targets at long range and +1 against enemies at mid range. In addition, gain +2 on your first turn of Taking Aim instead of +1 (to a cap of +4, rather than +3). However, you take a -3 penalty on all attacks against close range enemies. You must spend an action to deactivate the Targeting Peripheral.
  
• Multi-Target Lock-On Systems
  Location: Systems
  Passive: +1 Aim
  Active (Swift action): Your suits aiming systems are more advanced, allowing you to accurately target multiple enemies at once. When you perform a Volley against multiple targets, you can choose to gain a +2 bonus to all attack rolls instead of a -2 penalty.
• Recoil Anchors
  Location: Legs
  Passive: +1 Aim
  Active (Swift action): Your suit has been equipped with improved stabilization for better accuracy. You can spend a swift action to anchor your suits feet in place; during this time your Speed bonus becomes +0, and any Disengage/Charge attempts against you are automatically successful. However, any attacks with artillery weapons (excluding thrown grenades) gain a +3 bonus. It takes one action to dislodge your Recoil Anchors, and you do not regain your Speed bonus (if any) until the end of your turn.
• Leg Knee Pad
  Location: Legs
  Passive: +1 Aim
  Effect: Your knee is equipped with an extendable stabilizer, not unlike the bipod of a rifle. When you perform the Take Aim action, you can perform it as a full-round action instead. If you do you lose any benefits from Speed, but on your next turn you immediately gain the maximum benefits possible for Taking Aim. Retracting the leg knee pad and returning to standing position takes a swift action.
• Motion Range Tuning (Ranged)
  Location: Internal
  Passive: +1 Aim
  Active (1 action): Your suit has been fine-tuned to have a higher range of motion, allowing faster reactions and precision motions. When attacking with a throwing weapon (such as a grenade, throwing daggers, meteor hammer or similar), you can take an action to wind up and hone in on your target. Doing so grants the attack a +3 bonus, +2 if the attack is a Crippling Blow.
• Anti-Air Targeting Systems
  Location: Systems
  Passive: +1 Aim
  Active (Swift action): Your targeting systems are programmed to be especially effective against airborne enemies. When targeting airborne enemies from the ground you can spend a swift action on course prediction before firing. If you do your attacks gain a +2 bonus and inflict a -1 penalty on Interception attempts.

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Specialty Upgrades:

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Note: Some specialty upgrades are still undergoing review. If you don't see one on here that's already in the upgrades changes, it's either being left as-is or is part of a larger review.

• Improved Motors
  Effect: Increases mobile suit weight capacity by one stage (ie a light unit’s weight capacity of 20 is shifted to a medium’s weight capacity of 30). This also affects a mobile suits weight capacity bonus to ER.
• Reinforced Limbs
  Effect: Reinforces the mobile suit’s limbs for unarmed combat and brawling. Allows the mobile suit to equip certain weapon upgrades to their unarmed strikes. For weight purposes, unarmed strikes are treated as integrated light weapons weighing 2 each. This means the default weight does not affect the mobile suits weight capacity and cannot be reduced, but any additional weight (such as from a size increase) will be counted. “Sub-weapon” upgrades cannot be equipped.
  
• Weapon Rack
  Effect: Allows the equipment of either the Weapon Container or Parachute Pack
• Heat Proofing
  Effect: While not immune to heat-based weapons nor advised to take a lava bath, the mobile suit is nonetheless properly equipped to handle heat-intensive environments. Adds the Volcanic terrain and reduces fire-based damage from the environment by half.
• Mountain Gear
  Effect: While most mobile suits are capable of working on solid ground, this equipment specifically addresses uneven and unstable terrain with weight adjustments and finely tuned changes to leg actuators. Adds the Rocky Terrain.
• Thermal Jets
  Effect: Adds the Hover terrain. Heavy mobile suits have their ER set to 10. You can spend one action to set the jets to full power, negating any terrain benefits but granting +2 ER for one turn (+1 for heavy suits).
• Nanomachine Camo
  Effect: Nanites coat the uppermost layer of your machine. They offer no defensive nor restorative benefits, but can alter the color of your mobile on the fly. You can spend one action to alter your mobile suits color to match the terrain, granting you a +3 bonus on your next Stealth attempt.
• Thermal Sensors
  Effect: Sensors installed in the mobile suit that focus on detection based on heat output rather than direct visual sight. Gain +2 Perception to detect stealthed enemies (barring specific countermeasures). If ambushed by an enemy wielding a heat or beam-type weapon, the penalty for being ambushed is negated.
  
• Reinforced Joints
  Weight: +5
  Effect: The joints of your mobile suit have been reinforced with strategically placed armor. The health damage threshold required for a successful crippling blow against your suit increases to 40xTier.
• Aerodynamic Frame
  Effect: The frame and armor of your mobile suit has been further adjusted for aerial mobility. Reduce durability by 25(xTier) and weight capacity by 5. In exchange gain +1 to Evasion Rating and Charge/Disengage attempts in aerial and aquatic environments.
  SPECIAL: Cannot be equipped to a suit without flight or aquatic capabilities.
• Specialized Munitions (Ranged Weaponry)
  Weight: +(Varies)
  Effect: Rather than altering a weapons design to fire a particular type of ammo, some choose to carry limited amounts of specialized ammunition instead. Choose a ranged weapon type and a secondary damage type; when wielding a physical ranged weapon of the chosen type, you can replace its normal ammo with your specialized munitions. This gives your weapon the chosen secondary damage type until you have to reload. You can replace your default ammunition without first having to reload, but must still spend the same number of actions as if you were reloading. Due to the extra ammo, you gain +1 reload capacity.
  SPECIAL: Specialized Munitions stack, but each additional pack takes up +1 weight.
• Anti-Ground Sensors
  Effect: Gain +2 Perception against ground-based and subterranean mobile suits. If ambushed by a ground-based or subterranean enemy mobile suit, the penalty for being ambushed is negated.
• Lorenzini Sensors
  Effect: Automatically succeed on Perception checks against enemy units while underwater. When performing an Ambush in an aquatic environment, you gain an additional +1 bonus to your roll.
• Combat Visor
  Effect: Reduce the damage of the first crippling blow targeting your units head by (15 x Tier). Head mounted vulcans are disabled when equipped with the Combat Visor.

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External Equipment:

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Note: Same as specialty upgrades, some pieces of external equipment are still undergoing review. If you don't see one on here that's already in the upgrades changes, it's either being left as-is or is part of a larger review.

Backpacks:

• Parachute Pack
  Weight: +5
  Durability: (30 x MS tier)
  Effect: Allows a mobile suit to deploy from high altitudes without flight capability by employing multiple parachutes and thrusters for a controlled aerial descent. Ejected upon landing.
• Weapon Container
  Weight: Varies
  Durability: (150 x tier)
  Effect: The Weapon Container allows a mobile suit to carry extra ammunition and weaponry for itself or teammates. The Weapon Container has a weight capacity of +10 and can carry up to three weapons and three packs of ammo; its components must be determined before deployment, and must be weapons owned by or granted to the user. As an action the user or an ally can draw a weapon from the weapon container. The user cannot Charge, Disengage, or take flight as long as the Weapon Container is equipped. It can be ejected as a free action.
• External Auxiliary Reactor
  Weight: +6
  Durability: (55 x MS tier)
  Effect: Acts as an independent reactor for beam weapons, somewhat improving their practicality and output. Beam weapons that cannot normally recharge are instead given a 2-round recharge time while connected to this reactor. Beam weapons that can recharge or reload independently are instead given +20 base damage and +1 maximum charges. Can only be connected to handheld ranged beam weapons with singular (1H or 2H) handling. The beam weapon it is connected to can only be changed between deployments, not during combat.
• Astray-Type Flight Pack
  Weight: +6
  Durability: (100 x MS tier)
  Effect: Grants +1 Speed and Hover. As an action the user can take flight, lasting until the end of their following turn. This effect has a cooldown of two turns. Incompatible with heavy mobile suits, transformation, and offers no benefits to flight-capable mobile suits.
• (+) EF-24R Flight Rotor Shrike
  An upgrade to the Astray-Type Flight Pack. When equipped the Astray-Type Flight Pack's stats and effects are changed as follows:
  
  • Weight: +10
  • Durability: (150 x MS tier)
  • Effect: Grants +1 Speed and Flight. Incompatible with heavy mobile suits, transformation, and offers no benefits to flight-capable mobile suits.
  
  After purchase the Astray-Type Flight Pack + Rotor Shrike are treated as a single external upgrade. Replacements, repairs, and sales use the combined cost of both upgrades.
  

Tactical:

• Heat Cloak
  Weight: +1
  Effect: Allows a mobile suit to perform Stealth at a +2 bonus once per deployment, so long as they are not in close range and have not been attacked during the last turn. While equipped the mobile suit has protection against heat-based and thermal sensors until they use a Heat or Beam-based weapon.
  

Movement/Terrain:

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  Sledge
  Weight: 7 (Does not count to weight capacity while in use)
  Durability: (100 x tier)
  Effect: This jet-ski functions essentially as a snowboard scaled to the size of mobile suits. Grants +2 Speed and ignores any terrain penalties while in Dusty terrain. Can once per turn can perform a move action as a free action. Can be ejected as a free action.
• External Fuel Tanks (Locked until Tier 6)
  Weight: +4 (2/2)
  Durability: (20 x MS tier)
  Effect: +1 Speed for the first four turns a mobile suit is deployed (two turns per tank). As a free action the user can burn one round's worth of fuel to gain benefits as if they used the active of the Enlarged Fuel Tank upgrade. This does not stack with the Enlarged Fuel Tank nor does it count against the maximum number of times one can use the Enlarged Fuel Tank. Once empty the External Fuel Tanks can be ejected as a free action, negating their weight cost. Can have up to two pairs of External Fuel Tanks equipped.

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Armor Upgrades:

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• Armor Reinforcement
  Effect: +25(xTier) Durability, can be stacked with other Armor Upgrades
  Incompatible with light Mobile Suits
  Cost: 250 x Tier
  
• Partial Luna Titanium Armor
  Effect: -(5 x MS tier) damage from physical weapons.
  Cost: 350 x Tier
• Full Luna Titanium Armor
  Effect: -(10 x MS tier) damage from physical weapons. Rare and legendary Mobile Suits that come with Luna Titanium by default additionally negate the beam-type bonus damage. Cannot be repaired in the field and requires access to a Vault (or similar technology & resources) to be repaired.
  Cost: 550 x Tier
• Laminated Armor
  Effect: Negates bonus damage from beam-type weaponry. Burns away after 3(MS Tier) direct hits from beam weaponry.
  Cost: 250 x Tier
• Foam Metal Compound
  Effect: Reduces Crippling Blow threshold by one step (1/9th for heavy mobile suits), but increases threshold for weight capacity bonus to ER by +5.
  Cost: 250 x Tier
• Nanolaminate Armor
  Effect: Negates beam-type damage bonus and takes -(25 x MS tier) damage from beam weapons, as well as ranged physical weapons fired outside of close range. Takes bonus damage from heat weapons (as Shields) and burns off after taking (100 x MS Tier) damage from heat weapons.
  Cost: 450 x Tier