🎮 Powers Guide

Powers Guide

Smoke

• Basic Skill: Drain Smoke – By pressing the touch pad, you can drain smoke from any Smoke source, such as chimneys and cars. You can upgrade this to drain more smoke.

Upgrades:

• Quick Drain – You can drain smoke twice as fast.
• Basic Skill: Smoke Dash – When you press the circle button, you will become turn into smoke, which allows you to cross through permeable barriers and move quickly to ambush or escape enemies.

Upgrades:

• Double Air Dash – You can dash twice without landing in between.
• Car Boost – You can use a car’s exhaust fumes to give you an extra boost if you jump while on top of a car.
• Vent Dash – If you Smoke Dash into a red vent, you will go straight up to the roof.
• Vent Healing (requires Good Karma) – If you Smoke Dash into a red vent, you will regain some health.
• Enhanced Vent Launch (requires Evil Karma) – If you Smoke Dash into a red vent to launch yourself into the air, you will go higher.
• Basic Skill: Smoke Shot – If you press R2, you will fire a blast of smoke that can hit enemies at medium range.

Upgrades:

• Cinder Blast – You can charge up a Smoke Shot to do more damage, although it also depletes your Smoke Energy faster.
• Obliterating Blast (requires Evil Karma) – Cinder Blast will cause instant death for some enemies in its path.
• Sulfur Headshots (requires Good Karma) – Precise Smoke Shots make enemies cough, incapacitating them.
• Knockout Headshots (requires Good Karma) – Precise Smoke Shots immediately subdue enemies.
• Sustained Fire (requires Evil Karma) – This gives you a rapid-fire burst of Smoke Shots.
• Basic Skill: Cinder Missile – If you press R1, you will fire a powerful Heavy Ammo missile.
• Basic Skill: Sulfur Bomb – If you press L1, you will throw a bomb that will stun enemies without killing them.

Upgrades:

• Corrosive Fumes (requires Good Karma) – The effects of Sulfur Bomb will last longer.
• Giant Sulfur Bomb (requires Good Karma) – The range of Sulfur Bomb is increased.
• Karma Bomb: Orbital Drop – When your Karma Streak is full, you can press down on the D-pad to leap into the air and land with a powerful explosion. If you have Good Karma, enemies caught in the blast will be subdued. If you have Evil Karma, they will be killed.

Melee

• Basic Skill: Dash Strike – First, dash toward an enemy, and then hit the melee button to deliver a quick attack with the advantage of surprise.

Upgrades:

• Dash Subdue (Requires Good Karma) – If an enemy is surrendering or vulnerable, you can dash toward them and immediately subdue them.
• Dash Slam (Requires Evil Karma) – This makes Dash Strike a lethal attack.
• Basic Skill: Karmic Healing – When you subdue an enemy, you will regain a little health.
• Basic Skill: Comet Drop – While you are in the air, hit the square button to hit the ground and produce a damaging shockwave.

Upgrades:

• Obliterating Drop (Requires Evil Karma) – You can use Comet Drop to instantly destroy an enemy.
• Basic Skill: Execute (Requires Evil Karma) – Instead of subduing a surrendering or vulnerable enemy, you can kill them.

Upgrades:

• Energy Drain (Requires Evil Karma) – When you execute an enemy, you will regain some energy.

Neon

• Basic Skill: Drain Neon – By pressing the touch pad, you can drain neon from any Neon source, such as lights and signs. You can upgrade this to drain more neon.

Upgrades:

• Quick Drain – You can drain neon twice as fast.
• Basic Skill: Light Speed – Press and hold the circle button to become a fast streak of neon light, which also allows you to run up walls and over other barriers.

Upgrades:

• Photon Jump – If you press the X button while using Light Speed and on the ground, you will perform a high jump.
• Endless Speed (Requires Good Karma) – With this, you can use Light Speed without any breaks.
• Basic Skill: Neon Beam – If you press R2, you will fire a neon attack effective at long range.

Upgrades:

• Rapid Refire (Requires Evil Karma) – You can fire Neon Beams at an increased speed.
• Basic Skill: Phosphor Beam – If you hold R1, you can charge up a powerful Heavy Ammo attack.
• Basic Skill: Stasis Bubble – If you press L1, you will launch a stasis field that will trap enemies, allowing you to either earn Good Karma or Evil Karma.

Upgrades:

• Enhanced Stasis (Requires Good Karma) – If you attack an enemy in a Stasis Bubble, they will be subdued.
• Extended Bubble (Requires Good Karma) – Stasis Bubbles will last longer.
• Deadly Stasis (Requires Evil Karma) – If you kill an enemy in a Stasis Bubble, they will be obliterated.
• Basic Skill: Laser Insight – Zoom in on enemies to see parts of them marked in blue or red. Shooting blue areas will subdue them, while shooting red areas will execute them.

Upgrades:

• Laser Focus – Time will pass more slowly when you are zoomed in.

Upgrades:

• Extended Focus – Time will pass even more slowly when you are zoomed in.
• Speed Loader – When you use Light Speed, your Laser Focus power will be recharged.
• Karma Bomb: Radiant Streak – When your Karma Streak is full, you can press down on the D-pad to launch nearby enemies into the air for an attack of neon power.

Video

• Basic Skill: Drain Video – By pressing the touch pad, you can drain video power from any Video source, such as TV and computer screens. You can upgrade this to drain more video power.

Upgrades:

• Quick Drain – You can drain video power twice as fast.
• Basic Skill: Shroud of Invisibility – If you press L1, you will transform into almost invisible pixels, leaving behind a decoy to fool enemies.

Upgrades:

• Extended Invisibility (requires Good Karma) – The Shroud of Invisibility will last longer.
• Enhanced Invisibility (requires Good Karma) – While invisible, you can subdue a single enemy without losing your invisibility.
• Summon Wingman – You won’t leave behind a decoy, but instead you will summon an Angel to help you fight enemies.

Upgrades:

• Demon Twins (requires Evil Karma) – Summon two demons to fight enemies.
• Unholy Trinity (requires Evil Karma) – Summons three powerful demons to fight enemies.
• Basic Skill: Video Surge – If you hold the circle button, you will be able to fly over barriers and up walls. If you fly into a satellite dish, you will turn into a transmission and be sent high into the air.

Upgrades:

• Signal Boost – While using Video Surge, you can touch the ground and press the X button for a high jump.
• Double Air Surge – You can dash twice without landing in between.
• Airwave – While using Video Surge in the air, hold down the X button to glide and increase your speed.
• Hovering Fire – When you zoom in, you will hover.
• Basic Skill: Video Torrent – Hold R2 to fire a ranged attack.

Upgrades:

• Extended Torrent (Requires Evil Karma) – Your Video Torrent attack will last longer.
• Narrow Band (Requires Evil Karma) – Both the accuracy and range of Video Torrent will be increased.
• Basic Skill: Bloodthirsty Blades – Target an enemy with R1 to fire a Heavy Ammo attack of three blades.

Upgrades:

• Blade Flurry – Bloodthirsty Blades will use four blades.
• Blade Storm – Bloodthirsty Blades will use five blades.
• Karma Bomb: Hellfire Swarm – When your Karma Streak is full, you can press down on the D-pad to call a horde of angels to help.

Concrete

• Basic Skill: Drain Concrete – By pressing the touch pad, you can drain concrete power from defeated enemies. You can upgrade this to drain more concrete power.
• Basic Skill: Boulder Dash – Press the circle button to dash across the ground in concrete armor.

Upgrades:

• Extended Dash – You can cross further distances using Boulder Dash.
• Endless Dash – You can hold the circle button to continuously use Boulder Dash.
• Basic Skill: Concrete Thrusters – Press L1 to jump high into the air and hold it in the air to shoot straight up.

Upgrades:

• Double Lift – Press L1 a second time for a second boost.
• Triple Lift – Press L1 a third time for a third boost.
• Basic Skill: Strength of Stone – When you are using Concrete powers, the damage you take will be reduced by 10%.

Upgrades:

• Strength of Granite - When you are using Concrete powers, the damage you take will be reduced by 20%.
• Basic Skill: Concrete Shrapnel – If you press R2, you will fire an attack effective at medium range.

Upgrades:

• Extended Shrapnel – Your Concrete Shrapnel attack will last longer.
• Basic Skill: Concrete Barrage – If you press R1, you will fire a Heavy Ammo attack that launches slabs of concrete.