Overview[]
Upgrades are new features in Mirrors Edge Catalyst. There are a total of 50 upgrades divided into 3 sections; movement, combat and gear.
Movement[]
movement has upgrades that help the player with movement around the world, it contains 19 upgrades.
| Ability | Description | Unlock conditions |
|---|---|---|
| Focus Shield | Speed, freerunning, and (ps4 square button) light traversal attacks build focus shield. With focus shield Faith is impossible to hit; bullets can't find a target and physical attacks slide right off. When completely focused the world slips by in a blur of speed. | Unknown |
| Free Running 1 | (ps4 L1 button) Smoothly jump, vault and climb objects with exceptional fluidity and speed. Contextual to momentum and the environment. | Unknown |
| Free Running 2 | (ps4 L2 button) Slide, crawl under, or slide down obstacles and through small openings. | Unknown |
| Climbing | (hold ps4 button L2) to descend quickly. (hold ps4 L2 button) to slide into a ladder or pipe from above. Climb on facades, bars, pipes and ladders. | Unknown |
| Swing | (press ps4 L button in desired direction) To swing, jump or drop off. Swing on, off and around pipes, bars or horizontal wires. | unknown |
| Soft Landing | (hold ps4 button L2) White falling. reading her body before hitting the ground lets Faith soften the impact and avoid losing focus shield or all her momentum. | Unknown |
| Springboard | (hold ps4 button L1) while running into an obstacle. Jump further and higher off of obstacles. Slight speed penalty when landing. Alt: (ps4 L2 button) to start a vault then (ps4 L1 button) to springboard put of the vault. | Unknown |
| Shift | (move ps4 L stick in a desired directing while pressing R2 button) A short burst of acceleration in any direction. Focus shield gain from speed starts immediately after a forward shift. | Unknown |
| Combat Shift | White engaged with an opponent. (move ps4 L stick left or right white pressing R2 button) A quick strafe around the opponent. Used to dodge attacks and gain positional advantage. | Unknown |
| Wallrun | (press Ps4 L1 button while running into a wall) Direct - vertical wallrun. Angled - horizontal wallrun. Jump or drop off. | Unknown |
| Skill Roll | (hold ps4 L2 button) Close to the point of impact. (hold ps4 L2 button) During side to quickly roll out of it. Roll out of a soft landing or slide to retain high momentum and gain focus shield. | Unknown |
| Balance & Free Hang | (move ps4 L stick left or right) To balance. (press ps4 L2 button) To free hang. Free hang: (ps4 button L1 button) To climb into a balance). (Ps4 button L2) To drop. Hang and climb on pipes and wires. Zipline on declining wires. | Unknown |
| Quickturn | (ps4 button R1) = 18 - degree turn. (ps4 L1 button) wallrun + (ps4 R1 button) = 90 degree turn. (ps4 l1 button) Vertical wallrun + (ps4 R1 button) = 180 degree turn. A quick directional change that can be added to any move. | Unknown |
| Coil | (ps4 buttons L1 and L2) raise your legs while in the air. Fastest way to clear small obstacles and build focus. | Unknown |
| Focus Shield | Reaching full focus gives a temporary 25% focus shield bonus. bonus remains until focus shield meter is empty. | Unknown |
| Focus Shield ++ | Increases Focus shield bonus to 50%. Bonus remains until focus shield meter is empty. | Unknown |
| Extended Slide | + Slide distance. Reduces deceleration in a slide increases the distance before Faith transitions to a crawl. | Unknown |
| Climb Efficiency | Climb pipes and ladders faster. | Unknown |
Combat[]
Combat helps plays fight or avoid fighting enemies, it contains 20 upgrades.
Gear[]
Contains technologies that aide the player. It contains 11 upgrades.
| Ability | Description | Unlock Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Gridleak Mapping | Adds gridleak locations to the map. Mod: Gleak v 0.9 | Unknown |
| Disrupt | (hold ps4 circle button) Stun Kruger Sec for a short time by disrupting their communication systems. Kinetically charge through movement. Utilizes faith's beatlink and the magrope's power source to execute a military grade communications hack. | Unknown |
| Disrupt 1 | Increase disruption range. Decrease charge requirement. Earn charges faster and disrupt targets from a greater distance. | Unknown |
| Disrupt Ai | Unknown | Unknown |
| Power Storage | 1 + max disruptor charge. Destroy currently disrupted ai systems. (hold ps4 button circle) To disrupt. Alt (hold ps4 button circle) To destroy disrupted ai. | Unknown |
| Magrope | (Ps4 L1 button) To attach jump or drop off.and move (ps4 L stick) in desired direction. | Unknown |
| Magrope Upgrade 1 | attach the manifold attachment gear to suspend security cameras to swing across large spaces. | Unknown |
| Magrope Upgrade 2 | (ps4 button x) In the activation area to pull object. The grappling top can grab objects allowing Faith to pull them from a distance. | Unknown |
| K-sec Surveillance tap | Beatmod that can display Kurger Sec pursuit data during states of alert. Mod: coldsurv v 0.7 | unknown |
| Beat Map | (open map with ps4 touchpad) A map of Glass City containing all the important location, activities, and information a runner needs. Mod: Beatmap v 3.15 | Unknown |
| Beat Link | Allows Faith to see, and communicate on the beat. Can wirelessly auto-hack mid/low level connected systems. | Unknown |