Adaptive Bone Marrow

[nexusj13]

Im trying to understand exactly how it works, because it suddenly stopped working with my characters. So will it only work if you are not wearing any armor, like ghost armor?

[ARi0S]

Xcom's wiki says.
"Adaptive Bone Marrow (reduces wound recovery time by 66% which stacks with Rapid Recovery and allows a soldier to regenerate 2 HP per turn up to their max HP without armor)"

Basic armor adds +1 health, it will heal all but that +1.
Ghost armor adds +6 health, so it will not heal those six health points.

[kaffekoppen]

I've been using it a lot and that does seem to be exactly how it works.

It should have just said "up to their maximum base HP".

In case you were wondering, it's extremely useful.

[Mister Veeg]

you regenerate health up to the base health limit without armor.

in the stats screen your health is displayed as a number plus another value - Basic armor/kevlar gives you one bonus health by default.

You can regenerate anything up until you get into the 'bonus' health offered by armor/chitin plating/T-shirts/rebreathers.

Of course this also means you're going to take a trip to medical for injuries, but adaptive bone marrow cuts that down too.

[Ryncage]

yeah, its working. it just becomes useless once the enemy starts using plasma rifles and beyond.
Your soldiers base HP virtually always get one shot once your reach the endgame.

[Basement cat]

Also give immunity to posion. which is helpful against thin man. you can carry a vest instead of a medkit

[Blessed Heretic]

the 66% recovery speed during downtime is worth it. I'd say keep this on soldiers who are in front lines so they can get back into combat 2 days after gravely wounded is done.

[nexusj13]

Sweet, i was thinking of switching to the jumping ability, but i didnt no it also makes you immune to poison, so i will keep it.

[Mister Veeg]

it doesn't actually make you immune to poison.

[puuflinger]

Late game armor makes you poison immune as do medkits. Mobility > 2 hp a turn at that point.

[Brigand01]

Originally posted by puuflinger:

Late game armor makes you poison immune as do medkits. Mobility > 2 hp a turn at that point.

Completely agree with this, in the late game the upgrade is pretty much worthless as it is even more important to get mobility and first strike capability.

[kaffekoppen]

I don't think the reduced recovery time every becomes worthless. Combined with the second heart you can be quite reckless without having losing access to your soldier for ages.

But yeah, the regen effect is of much less use later in the game.