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The “cut blue/red wire” element has been removed from weapon and armor slicing.

While slices to weapon and armor will always succeed, each slice will add a small amount of customization points to the sliced object. Any piece of weaponry or armor may have up to a total of 100 points worth of slices. The better a slice is, the more points it adds to the item until it reaches 100 points.

However, the more customizations added to an item (the closer to a complete 100 points), the more prone to sudden breakage during use it becomes. The build up is very slow, but 100% customized items may break once every couple weeks.

These breakages may be fixed only by a smuggler with slicing skill equal to or greater than the weapon's customization level. A broken weapon or armor piece is de-equipped and cannot be used until fixed by a smuggler. Examining the item displays its customization level, its percentage chance of breaking (usually quite small), and whether it is broken or not.

Each item (weapons/armor) will have a set of customization categories. Each category will require a number of slices of increasing value in order to get the full value of the category. These slices must be applied in order. For example, a weapon will have a category called “Increase Firing Rate” which has a maximum of 4 slices, each of increasing quality. Each of these slices then has a cost and results in an increase in firing rate.

Here is a list of the new slices:

Weapons

• Increase Firing Rate
  
• Enhanced Damage
  
• Increased Critical Hit Chance

Armor

• Enhanced Resilience
  
• Impact Deflections
  
• Hardening (Crit save chance)
  
• Armor Break Defense