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Plug-in Chips

Plug-in Chips are Skills you can customize in Nier: Automata.

• By using a Plug-in Chip, you can freely customize abilities to change your play style the way you like it, such as emphasizing more on attack power or defense, and so on.
• These Chips can be purchased, but they're also acquired from enemy drops.
• Each Chip is set with a capacity, but you're able to equip several Plug-in Chips as long as there's enough space within a character's storage. You can view your Storage Used in the top right of the Skills Menu screen.
  • Chips bought from NPCs will have max capacity cost; enemies have a chance to drop Chips with the lowest capacity cost (these will be marked with ♦).
  • Fusing Chips will scale to the highest capacity cost of the two + 1 (unless fusing two ♦, which will scale to the lowest capacity cost available for that level).
• There are Chips that display HP meters, damage numbers, and other types of HUD info Chips. So for example, you could customize your characters by having less information available via Chips and focus more on customizations that allow you to attack better.
  • Combination effects are capped at 100%, except for Item Drop which is capped at 90%.
• You begin that game with a certain amount of storage. To increase your capacity, you can do so at the Bunker. Take the elevator to the terminal to find a merchant. 
• When you die you lose all the chips you had installed. In order to recover them you must make your way back to your prior body. Failing to do so results in losing the chips.
• Plug-in Chips can be upgraded to a max of +6 normally and up to +8 at Canyon Machine, after completing her quest. 

The following are the chips in the game: