Parasite Eve Gameplay

Weapon Abilities

Title	Comments
Rate of Fire Attaching one of these will increase the ammo consumption of weapons and provide a small damage % increase across all shots fired. Given the boost is not considerable (20-30%), and given that other factors could lower the effectiveness, such as rounding fractions down, it is suggested that a player replace the higher RoFs with a lower one using a Tool when possible. Most enemies add a small bonus to the Rate of Fire (per shot) damage to help offset the overall lower numbers. This number varies between enemies. This can give the impression of the guns using an RoF ability may do a lot more damage than listed. Only one Rate of Fire ability can be attached to a weapon. If the player attempts to attach another one, it will overwrite the existing one (which can be useful in making a machine gun less of an ammo consumer).
Rate of Fire: 2	Attacks twice in a turn for 60% of max. damage. Total Dmg.: %120
Rate of Fire: 3	Attacks three times in a turn for 41.67% (5/12) of max. damage. Total Dmg.: %125
Rate of Fire: 5	Attacks five times in a turn for 25% of max. damage Total Dmg.: %125
Rate of Fire: 7	Attacks seven times in a turn for 18.18% (2/11) of max. damage. Total Dmg.: %127.27
Rate of Fire: 10	Attacks ten times in a turn for 13% of max. damage. Total Dmg.: %130
Only one of: Random Rate of Fate, Burst and Attack All can be equipped at any one time. Attaching one of these will overwrite the currently equipped ability.
Random Rate of Fire: 1.5	Rate of fire increases by 150% without further penalties, but player loses ability to control which targets are attacked
Burst: Spray Multiple Targets	Shots spread out, hitting all targets for equal damage.
Attack All Enemies w/Rate of Fire	Attacks all enemies on the screen. based on the Rate of Fire. Example: If Rate of Fire: 2 is attached, every target on the screen is attacked twice.
Elements Elements are not 100% effective across the board. Enemies can be weak to Frost and Heat (Take more damage) or resistant to it (Take less damage). More often than not, enemies in area will have both weaknesses and resistances, requiring the player to either expend more ammo or constantly change weapons to deal with them. With Acid, Tranqulizier and Cyanide, the damage is still optimal even if the element is ineffective, so they are much safer to attach to any weapon.
Add Heat Effect to Bullets
Add Frost Effect to Bullets
Add Cyanide to Bullets	If this ability misses a target, normal damage is done in it's place, so there is no harm in including this ability.
Add Acid Effect to Bullets
Add Tranquilizer to Bullets	The normal damage still happens even if sleep does not work.
Counterattack Enemy	Player has a chance to counterattack for free damage should they take a hit.
Quickdraw: First Attack	Greatly increases the chance of Aya Active Meter starting at maximum.
Steal Steal is an ability associated with clubs, only.
Steal Items, but Halves Attack Power
Steal During Attack
Critical Percentage Increases
Commands Multiple commands allows to the player to execute any available action during a turn more than once.
Enter 2 Commands
Enter 3 Commands

Armor Abilities

Title	Comments
Resist Poison
Resist Stiffness
Resist Darkness
Decreases Items Stolen	While it exists within the game, none of armors makes use of this.
Resist Confusion
Uses Medicine When HP is Low	The one drawback with this ability is it can unintentionally deplete a player's medicine supplies.
Use Cures to Remove Status	While automatically using cures to spare Aya of status effects is rarely a bad thing, this ability becomes redundant if the player attaches all status resistances to the same armor.
Increase Item Capacity by 1
Increase Item Capacity by 2
Increase Item Capacity by 4	Ups the max. possible inventory carrying ability to 50.
Increases Max HP	Increases max HP by 15%. Does not increase current HP with it. At level 99, this can increase the player's max HP to 999.
Increases Attack Power	Raises attack power by 2 points. Becomes redundant to waste a slot once the player reaches EX-Game.
Active Time Recharges Slower	Reduces the active time rate by 2 points. Unless the player is trying to use a rocket launcher at level 1, this is not a serious issue.
PE Light: PE Burden Decreases	Decreases consumption of PE by 1/3. Exceptions: Barrier, Energy Shot, Liberation An excellent armor ability, severly hampered by how late it appears in the game, making it useful
Decreases Attack Power	Lowers attack power by 2 points. Once EX-game is played, it makes little difference if this is attached to an armor or not.

Active Time Rate

During battle, Aya requires a blue gauge to fill up before she can execute a command. This is referred to as the Active Time Rate. There are many factors that can affect how quickly this gauge fills, but as the player progresses through the game, it will tend to progressively get faster, mostly as Aya levels up.

The basic rate is: (50 + Active Time - (AT Down Penalty x 2)) x Gun multiplier

• Active Time: Associated with Aya as she levels up. It is one of her stats. While her base stats. start at 1 point, in-game memory says it starts at 0, making the 'actual' range 0-98. Level is not consistent with rate, since it follows an unusual set of points required to obtain this stat (Normally, all stats. are giving 10 points to raise by 1 level, but Active Time requirements are a bit different up until level 15, where it normalizes).

AT Value	Points til next.
1	20
2	8
3	8
4	12
5	24
6	12
7	12
8	9
9	15
10	9
11	11
12+	10
The Active Time for 97 and 98 are 5 points each.

• AT Down Penalty: If Active Time Recharges Slower is attached to her, her rate will be reduced slightly. This is far less noticeable if the Active Time is quite high.
• Gun Multiplier
  • Clubs: x2.0
  • Pistols and Machine Guns: x1.0
  • Rifles, Shotguns and Grenade Launchers: x0.8
  • Rocket Launchers x0.4

Since it is possible to apply bonus points to the Active Rate in EX Game mode, the basic range is: 50-148.

• At the start of the game with Aya's first pistol, the default is 50.
• With a club equipped, the highest possible number is 296.
• With a Rocket Launcher equipped and Active Time Recharges Slower attached to the equipped armor, the lowest possible value is 19.

Haste temporarily doubles this rate, making it an important spell to keep active during a boss battle.

Equipment Engraving

Engraving a gun and armor with a custom name will allow the player to start with that immediately upon starting a round of EX Game. There are two ways to obtain this:

• Prior to the Ultimate Being boss battle, Wayne will give an opportunity to engrave one gun and armor.
• During a non-EX Game play-through if you speak to Wayne at the NYPD while carrying a piece of equipment that has all three stats sitting at 100 or more. However, this method is extremely unlikely during a first-time play-through at it requires considerable grinding and stealing to obtain the boosts needed to enhance a single gun/armor.

Item Slots

Essentially for handling equipment, holding onto items and even collecting, the player's item capacity dictates how much can be carried around at any time.

Item Slots can be increased in 2 ways:

• Leveling up.
• In EX Game, bonus points can be added to Item Capacity.

Item Capacity Value	# of Slots		Item Capacity Value	# of Slots
1	10		34-35	29
2	11		36	30
3	12		37-38	31
4	13		39-41	32
5	14		42-43	33
6	15		44-46	34
7	16		47-50	35
8	17		51-58	36
9	18		59-61	37
10	19		62-70	38
11-12	20		71-74	39
13-15	21		75-77	40
16-17	22		78-82	41
18-20	23		83-85	42
21-22	24		86-89	43
23-25	25		90-92	44
26-27	26		93-95	45
28-31	27		96 & 99	46
32-33	28

Leveling Up

Aya must collect experience points to level up. Once she has reached the experience threshold, her HP, PE and basic stats. will all increase, improving her overall survival capability. At some levels, she will obtain a new spell.

The Experience chart reaches it's peak at level 37, which requires more EXP than any other to reach the next level. On a typical play-through, most players will not even reach level 37, let alone cross it, but should a player build up their character beyond that, their stats. will increases considerably, making the endgame a fair bit easier to win. This 'could' be useful during a first-time play-through IF the player finds they are having trouble defeating Eve and/or the Ultimate Being as the difference in Active Time, basic stats. and Parasite Energy is substantial.

• Offensive: Increases basic damage by 1 point per level.
• Defensive: Increases basic defense by 1 point per level.
• PEnergy: Parasite Energy. Uncertain 'what' it does, but is likely related to how much PE energy Aya has available to spend on spells.
• SRecover: Status Recovery. Likely affects how quickly Aya can recover from being inflicted by a status ailment.
• Active Time: Bonus points used for determining the rate of turns in battle. See Active Time Rate for more details.
• Item Capacity: Helps determine the slot count. See Item Slots for more details.

Level	EXP	Next	HP	PE	New Spell
1	0	3	45	80
2	3	5	49	84
3	8	11	53	88
4	19	9	64	92	Scan
5	28	13	67	97
6	41	27	72	102
7	68	36	92	110	Slow
8	104	38	101	117
9	142	42	107	125	Detox
10	184	56	115	134
11	240	85	123	147	Heal 2
12	325	103	133	162
13	428	140	174	182	Barrier
14	568	300	181	206
15	868	252	189	234	Energy Shot
16	1120	340	195	270
17	1460	460	203	310	Confuse
18	1920	986	210	354
19	2906	838	273	402
20	3744	1131	283	462	Haste
21	4875	1528	296	502
22	6403	2062	307	550	Heal 3
23	8465	2783	320	610
24	11248	5968	335	684
25	17216	5073	422	774	Gene Heal
26	22289	6848	437	890
27	29137	14683	532	1000
28	43820	12481	547	1060	Medic
29	56301	16850	561	1124
30	73151	22746	573	1192	Preraise
31	95897	30708	589	1264
32	126605	41456	604	1340	Full Recover
33	168061	55965	621	1420	Liberate
34	224026	75553	671	1504
35	299579	101996	763	1592
36	401575	137695	765	1684
37	539270	185888	767	1782
38	725158	4500	769	1888
39	729658	4500	771	2000
40	734158	4500	773	2025
41	738658	4500	775	2050
42	743158	4500	777	2073
43	747658	4500	779	2096
44	752158	4500	781	2119
45	756658	4500	783	2142
46	761158	4500	785	2164
47	765658	4500	787	2186
48	770158	4500	789	2208
49	774658	4500	791	2230
50	779158	4500	793	2251
51	783658	4500	795	2272
52	788158	4500	797	2293
53	792658	4500	799	2313
54	797158	4500	801	2333
55	801658	4500	803	2353
56	806158	4500	805	2373
57	810658	4500	807	2392
58	815158	4500	809	2411
59	819658	4500	811	2430
60	824158	4500	813	2448
61	828658	4500	815	2466
62	833158	4500	817	2484
63	837658	4500	819	2501
64	842158	4500	821	2518
65	846658	4500	823	2535
66	851158	4500	825	2552
67	855658	4500	827	2568
68	860158	4500	829	2584
69	864658	4500	831	2600
70	869158	4500	833	2616
71	873658	4500	835	2631
72	878158	4500	837	2646
73	882658	4500	839	2661
74	887158	4500	841	2676
75	891658	4500	843	2691
76	896158	4500	845	2706
77	900658	4500	847	2720
78	905158	4500	848	2734
79	909658	4500	849	2748
80	914158	4500	850	2762
81	918658	4500	851	2776
82	923158	4500	852	2790
83	927658	4500	853	2803
84	932158	4500	854	2816
85	936658	4500	855	2829
86	941158	4500	856	2842
87	945658	4500	857	2855
88	950158	4500	858	2868
89	954658	4500	859	2881
90	959158	4500	860	2893
91	963658	4500	861	2905
92	968158	4500	862	2917
93	972658	4500	863	2929
94	977158	4500	864	2941
95	981658	4500	865	2953
96	986158	4500	866	2965
99	990658	N/A	869	3000