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Limiters 

Limiters work in a similar way to the Idols of Bastion. Put simply, they make certain aspects of the game harder in exchange for more experience.

The trick to boosting your XP as much as possible while minimising the risk, is to allocate functions in such a way that they negate or severely reduce the effect of the Limiters. For example, if you enable a Limiter that spawns extra cells, each of which has a chance of morphing into a potential enemy, you could offset it by setting Switch as a passive function and Help as an upgrade function. Doing so would spawn friendly BadCells and give a function the chance to prevent cells from spawning altogether. Maximum XP for minimum risk! Just use the old noggin and you’ll be racking up bonus XP in no time.

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Abundance

The Process will sometimes spawn twin Cells when terminated.
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Initiative

The Process will respawn from Cells in much less time.
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Responsibility

User will lose access to 6 MEM or more. Functions may be uninstalled.
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Concentration

User will no longer automatically activate Turn() at low health.
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Priority

User will overload more Functions at once and recover only one per Access Point.
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Legacy

The Process will spawn corrupted Cells when terminated.
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Permanence

User will cause Functions to overload by uninstalling them at Access Points.
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Superiority

The Process will spawn in greater numbers.
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