- EMPs no longer deal permanent damage. Instead, they deal a temporary kind of damage called surge damage, that lasts for 10 seconds at maximum.
- Surge damage makes mechanical or assisted limbs count as broken and nonfunctional.
- Surge damage has special interactions with the mechanical heart and eyes.
- EMP damage is no longer randomized. It is now much more consistent.
- IPC battery is no longer represented as nutrition. Instead, the microbattery organ contains a super-capacity cell that is used for all their actions. This is represented with a new HUD icon.
- Hardsuits can now be charged in robot chargers if you are wearing them.
- Ion bolts now have a hit sound.
- Removed the ion rifle lethal mode.
- The ion rifle now has four shots.
