History VideoGame / HeatSignature

* DropTheHammer: The Concussion Hammer is essentially an upgrade to the wrench, being much faster and having a much greater knockback force while still being nonlethal.

* MoneyMauling: The Fleshtripper fires the acid used as currency in the Drift as ammunition, capable of stripping even [[ArmorPiercingAttack armored]] enemies [[StrippedToTheBone to the bone.]]

* KillEmAll: Sader did this, and so can you. The Fiasco Reckoning Achievement is gained by completely eliminating a faction.

* InvincibleHero: Invoked - Your character can get a reputation for this... and it's not a good thing. As you complete more and more missions with one character, stories of your exploits become more and more commonplace, and thus, less inspiring to the resistance, to the point where people just ''expect'' you to win all the time and don't pay attention. You need to move on to new heroes in order to keep the wheels of the resistance rolling.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: If there's only one guard with the key you need, try not to kill them by glitch-trapping them into space.

''Heat Signature'' is a WideOpenSandbox Roguelike Space Infiltration game with [[StealthBasedGame stealth elements]] developed by Suspicious Developments of ''{{VideoGame/Gunpoint}}'' fame, led by "recovering games journalist" Tom Francis. The game was developed over the course of four years, and was released on 21 September 2017. The game is available on {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/268130/Heat_Signature/ here.]]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: In the future, people apparently name their kids after stars and other stellar phenomena. For instance, the ex-Sovereign cryptographer Mirfak Lagrange; Mirfak is from the Arabic name for Alpha Persei, and Lagrange refers to Lagrangian points. You can even add your own names to the pools by modifying the Forename and Surname files.

* NoOSHACompliance: Who builds glass windows on a ''spaceship''? Taken UpToEleven when fuel storage units are visible in plain sight, and can even be ''shot and ignited!'' This would be fine on a ship where everyone is armed with melee weapons, but on a ship with [[ExplosionsInSpace guns involved...]]

-->'''Sader Fiasco:''' ''"It's a contract. You take contracts. I've taken contracts for forty years. You know what they say about old spies?"''
-->'''Player:''' ''"[[ShapedLikeItself They're old, and also spies?]]"''
-->'''Sader Fiasco:''' ''"Nothing. They're all dead by thirty-six. You make it to sixty in this job by being very, very, very, careful. And eventually, you get a rep. If you wanna crush an empire in this galaxy, you send an armada. [[BadassBoast You wanna crush four, you send me]]."''

'''Geneva:''' ''"That's what we keep asking cultures who kill. All force is wrong when you're wrong. Ours doesn't leave anyone dead."''
-->'''Player:''' ''"But that makes you quicker to use it."''

* {{Teleportation}}: The Glitchers figured out how to do it, and call it 'glitching' - hence their name. In game, there are three main kinds of teleporter and one trap - the Visitor, Sidewinder, Swapper, and Glitch Traps. You also possess a special item teleporter that can transport any item on the ship straight to you. [[spoiler:All teleportation is DestructiveTeleportation - Asli Sixty is named so because they've teleported sixty times.]]

** Swappers have long range, but require a target for you to switch places with. Useful for getting past doors.

''Heat Signature'' is a WideOpenSandbox Roguelike Space Infiltration game with [[StealthBasedGame stealth elements]] developed by Suspicious Developments of ''{{VideoGame/Gunpoint}}'' fame, led by Tom Francis. The game was developed over the course of four years, and was released on 21 September 2017. The game is available on {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/268130/Heat_Signature/ here.]]

** The Fleshstripper, a unique gun that ''[[AbnormalAmmo fires money]]'' at your enemies, is this by virtue of the local currency being extremely potent battery acid. Although it costs 1 unit per shot, it fires multiple projectiles that can instantly skeletonize multiple guards, and it completely ignores armor. Even its description points this out.

** The player is also never technically forced to do the killing for Assassinate missions, or ever, permitting this kind of playstyle. If you bring the assassination target in alive, you get an achievement and the debrief notes "..you brought the target in alive. ''We can fix that.''"

''Heat Signature'' is a WideOpenSandbox Roguelike Space Infiltration game with [[StealthBasedGame stealth elements]] developed by Suspicious Development of ''{{VideoGame/Gunpoint}}'' fame, led by Tom Francis. The game was developed over the course of four years, and was released on 21 September 2017. The game is available on {{UsefulNotes/Steam}} [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/268130/Heat_Signature/ here.]]

Gameplay, as mentioned above, is an insane hybrid of several gameplay features going on at once. The player can, at any time, zoom the screen out to show the entire galaxy at once, and using their Breacher Pod can hijack a ship's airlock to allow entry. Once inside, gameplay transforms into a hybrid of ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' and ''{{VideoGame/SUPERHOT}}'', with the player proceeding through the ship, knocking out, killing, or shooting anyone in their way en route to their goal. The game encourages experimentation and careful planning, and arms the player with a huge assortment of gadgets, such as timed grenades, silenced weaponry, guns that switch your place with someone else and hacking tools that turn your enemies technology against them. Need to assassinate someone? You could climb aboard, sneak about, and shoot him in the back of the head... or you could hijack another ship and fire missiles at the ship ''he's'' on.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A guard's shield can be hacked with a subverter device, causing any shots fired within it to bounce back off the inside of the shield with... predictable results. Sentry turrets can also be subverted, to perceive the player as friendly and guards as enemies.

** The Offworld Angel pod makes it ''much'' easier to catch yourself and whoever else gets defenestrated into space ''and'' reduces the [[MaximumHPReduction permanent bleed-out timer reduction]] that normally follows being wounded and then ThrownOutTheAirlock down to one-third of its original penalty. Barring the default replacement pod, it is also the cheapest boarding craft in the game and can usually be unlocked pretty early on.

** Also added in the Challenge Update - Upon becoming alerted, guards will shout different phrases depending on what alerted them - if a gunshot or body did so, they will shout "Gunshot!" or "Body!", respectively.

** Alternately, their missions can be very... unique. One special defector (whose name is always [[LetsPlay/NerdCubed Dan Hardcastle]], (for the player who introduced the concept to the devs) challenge involves boarding a ''moving'' ship without a pod; you must propel yourself to the airlock using guns before assassinating your target. Then there's the possibility of getting an assassination mission where your only true weapon is a glitch trap.