Acquisition Specialist
| Acquisition Specialist | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Intelligence Perk |
| Attribute | Intelligence |
| Levels | 2 |
| Affects | Only affects Smart Weapons |
Acquisition Specialist is where the smart weapon branch of the Intelligence tree begins. It widens the targeting reticle, stops a reload breaking target lock, and speeds up locking on from the hip and down the sights. The rest of the smart weapon line is bought through it. Any build carrying a smart weapon takes it first.
Effect
Smart weapons fire rounds that steer themselves, and everything about them depends on holding a lock. A wider reticle means the lock is found sooner and lost less often.
The second level removes the branch's worst interruption. Reloading normally drops the lock and hands the enemy a free moment, and with this perk the lock survives, so a magazine change costs nothing but time.
| Level | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | +10% larger target reticle for Smart Weapons. |
| 2 | Reloading Smart Weapons no longer interrupts target lock. +15% lock-on speed when hip-firing. +20% lock-on speed when aiming. |
How to Unlock Acquisition Specialist
It is bought with the earlier points V puts into the Intelligence tree, and nothing has to be bought ahead of it.
Perk Tree
Buying Acquisition Specialist opens the perks below.
| Name | Image | Tier | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Escape | 
|
Pro (9) | When using Smart Weapons, if the target lock on an enemy is about to end, shooting them resets it. |
| Precision Subroutines | 
|
Pro (9) | +2% accuract with Smart Weapons for each unit in your cyberdeck's max RAM. |
| Target Lock Transfer | 
|
Phenom (15) | +10% larger target reticle for Smart Weapons. |
Character Builds
The build is a smart weapon build, which may or may not be a netrunner. The cyberdeck still matters, since Precision Subroutines reads its maximum RAM as accuracy.
Buy it with the earlier points in the tree, then No Escape and Precision Subroutines, then Target Lock Transfer at the Phenom gate. Smart Synergy at the Legend gate is where the branch joins the netrunning half, which is why most smart weapon builds end up carrying a deck anyway.
Notes
No Escape, Precision Subroutines and Target Lock Transfer are all bought from it.
Smart weapons are what the Intelligence attribute improves, alongside the netrunning the rest of the tree covers.
All Intelligence Perks