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Heat Signature (PC)

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Easy "Billions Dead" Achievement

To get this achievement simply delete your galaxy. You can do it in the pause menu under the section "Change galaxy".

Easy "Well Done" Achievement

To get this achievement you have to knock yourself out with a wrench you threw.

Step 1: Get a wrench and equip it.
Step 2: Stand next to a wall and press T. This will open the throwing mode.
Step 3: Aim it directly at the wall, so that the wrench will reflect right back at you.
Step 4: Throw the wrench.

Tips

Read every tooltip! Heat Signature tells you almost everything ingame, and what it doesn't explicitly tell you can be inferred based on what it does tell you.

Hold F to speed up time by 6x. Immensely useful when you're waiting for a guard to leave their group or when approaching a ship.

Destroyed rooms act as impromptu airlocks. However, since there's no door between your pod and the ship, enemies can see you through the forcefield.

You can attack random ships by just flying around. Ships will usually be specific to the faction whose space you are in, and will always have a time limit (since they are always heading to a station). Useful for gearing up from crates before attempting more difficult missions.

Guard corpses can be used to prop open doors. Useful for using Sidewinders.

Thrown objects cause noises when they hit walls. Useful for attracting guard attention without using guns. Be warned: guns will go off if thrown against a wall!

Guards are not alerted by your unconscious body. This one is a little ridiculous, actually. If a guard spots you, as long as you knock yourself out before they shout intruder, the alarm won't sound. You can use this to your advantage to prevent an otherwise missionending alarm.

Subverters will remove the lock from a key door. Subverter grenades are especially useful if multiple key doors are next to each other.

You can permanently advance through sections by using Visitors twice or more in a row. The most recent start location will be your final return location, so with enough Visitors you can effectively teleport the entire length of a ship.

All guards will die if spaced. If you can lure a guard to a room and then cause a breach (shoot out the window or blow the room), if won't matter if they are shielded or armored.

You do not have to complete a mission to recharge items. As long as the ship doesn't have a time limit, you're welcome to go to a station and return.

Keys of a higher number work on that number lock and below. Since key cloners usually have limited uses, you should seek ouy keys which are one or two higher than your current section.

You can grab enemies the moment you harm them with a melee attack. Useful to keep them from flying into another guard's vision.

Various Steam Achievements

Complete the indicated task to unlock the achievement.

Achievement	How to unlock
A Weight Lifted	Be rescued from your captor by the Visitor.
Angel	Save someone with the Offworld Angel.
Audacity	Complete an Audacious (or harder) mission.
Billions Dead	Delete a Galaxy.
Bloodless	Complete a Bloodless Clause.
Brick	Break a ship with the Foundry Brick.
Cauldron of Stars	Start a new galaxy.
Closure	Complete your personal mission.
Coldfire	Pass through a ship's vision undetected in the Sovereign Coldfire.
Coming Through	Rescue a friend's character.
Conflicted Hitman	Deliver an assassination target alive.
Correction	Complete a Mistake mission.
Defenceless	Crash a shield.
End Game	Talk to Fiasco after liberating every Stronghold.
End of an Era	Retire Sader Fiasco.
Enigma	Complete an Enigma Clause.
Ghost	Complete a Ghost Clause.
Ghost Thief	Complete a theft without being seen or harming anyone.
Gold Text	Find a unique item.
Heirloom	Find an item that belonged to a Steam friend's character.
I Wouldn't...	Cause a guard with a subverted shield to shoot themselves.
Known Issue	Cause a sentry to shoot a guard by subverting it.
Legend	Retire as a Living Legend.
Liberator	Liberate a station.
Lightning Strike	Take someone out with a melee attack less than 0.5 seconds after Sidewinding.
Living in a Bubble	Reflect a bullet with an emergency shield.
Magic Reality	Complete a practice mission.
Nails	Complete a Hard (or harder) mission.
Nitojutsu	Kill someone with a Shortblade within 1 second of killing someone with a Longblade.
Objects in Space	Board a ship without docking your pod.
One Careful Owner	Complete a Hijack mission in a Warzone.
Only The Guilty	Complete an assassination mission without harming any other crew.
Out of Gas	Dock at a friendly station while on emergency fuel.
Outside the Box	Complete an Assassinate mission without entering the ship.
Pacifist	Complete a Pacifist Clause.
Self Help	Rescue one of your own characters.
Silence	Complete a Silence Clause.
Spacewalker	Make it to a station after your pod has been destroyed.
Strange Justice	Cause a guard to shoot themselves by Swapping with them.
The Fiasco Reckoning	Completely eliminate a faction from the galaxy.
They'll Live	Knock a Capture target through a window.
Tick	Teleport to an airlock with the Glitcher's Tick.
Unauthorised Visitation	Use a second Visitor before the first returns you.
Visitor Pass	Acquire a keycard while Visiting.
Well Done	Knock yourself out with a wrench you threw.
White Knuckle Extraction	Catch a Rescue target in your pod while they're suffocating in space.