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I know there are mods but I'm speaking vanilla. Seems like such an obvious thing to have. I assume it has something to do with balancing? Since breathing affects consciousness and rest rate, boosting lung efficiency by two artificial parts would improve pawns performance too much? Seems unlikely, numbers could be easily toned down and there are no archotech OP internal organ bionics. I would like to have those artificial organs in vanilla game, both to more easily replace shot organs without the need for harvesting (especially nasty for ideologies that abhor such practices) or relying on unlikely trader RNG and hopefully for better durability.

Forgot to post this. Basically what I thought it would be:

some people believe in wrong stuff, your story is playing with such guys and embrace how hard they suck.

They are not really wrong though. Their way does allow them to delve deeper into psionics than anyone else. And it is easy to make them not suck. You just choose the least fanatical version of blinding and only blind your psykers. That way you will have sighted folks and most powerful casters at the same time.

Would be cool if it was less one-dimensional. Like I'm ok with a hard start or even dealing with blindless permanently but I wish there was a pay-off even if distant improving your pawns in a different way. Like in an endgame you get something special, maybe psychic sensitivity growing in time or whatever. Some progression, anything to add to the experience.

Given that the precept is only +30% psy sensitivity ( being blind is natively +50% ) the opportunity cost is definitely quite high.

Really? Just being blind boosts psy sensitivity? Where can I check psy sensitivity stat actually?

[Re: blindness.]

Re: blindness.
Like, how did a religion form around blindness, if it hampers so much of daily life? I can imagine scarification, or the meat-restriction stuff in the game, but blindness feels like it's breaking the verisimilitude.

I think it gives psychic sensitivity bonus when blind. So with psychic phenomena real it is easy to argue merits of blindness when it actually works.

Or maybe less cool than you might think? Like you see its icon with the third eye which implies psionic sight and you have new mandatory precept assigned called "Blind psysense: Strong" which only reinforces this idea. Yet it's nothing like that.

Don't get me wrong, blindsight has still powerful benefits and is a decent meme. Its just could this aspect be improved on? Like could it also make its adepts scale their "Sight" stat from Psychic Sensitivity instead of body parts?