Psionic Labs is a facility in XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
In Game Description
| “ | This facility will allow us to discover and develop the latent psionic abilities of our soldiers. If they have any such capabilities, using them in the field will increase their strength. | ” |
Facility Requirements
Prerequisites: Interrogate Sectoid Commander or Sectoid Commander Autopsy
Time to Build: 14 Days (7 days with Advanced Construction*)
Facility Cost:
Facility Maintenance: §30/a month
Info
You may test your Soldiers for Psi-Abilities. All testing is done by going to the Barracks and by selecting "Visit The Psi Labs". Up to three soldiers can be tested at the same time, and soldiers that are tested cannot go on the missions, unless you remove them from testing early. It will take 10 days for tests to complete.
Having a soldier with Psi-Abilities is essential to completing the game.
Notes
- You can remove a soldier while they are being tested. However, if you do this they will have to start testing over again.
- There is a Second Wave option that prevents Sectoid Commander Autopsy from unlocking this facility.
- Whether a Soldier turns out to be Gifted or Not Gifted is NOT randomized when he enters the lab. It is instead based on who else the soldier is placed in the labs with as well as what Slot order they are placed in (See Random vs Seed Guide for more information)
- So if you really want a soldier to acquire Psi-Abilities, you can save before testing him and reload if he is not gifted, if you are not in Ironman Mode.
- Also, if you have a set of 3 soldiers that really need Psi-Abilities, you can save when you first put them in the lab, then see if any of them are gifted, and, if at least one of them is, you can reload, "cancel" the others and put them back to the list (without removing the gifted one), and repeat until you have them all gifted (the "gift" resets when you remove someone and then add him again).
- NEW WAY TO GET PSI-ABILITIES FOR ALL/MOST OF YOUR SOLDIERS:
- I found this by chance on CLASSIC DIFFICULTY IRONMAN:
- First you must train any soldier you want to test to COLONEL level.
- I had IRON WILL from the beggining of the training (when they were rookies/squadies) for any of the soldiers i tested.
- I did not test any soldier that was critically wounded (I was playing on IRONMAN so i had some).
- Once you have a colonel trained with IRON WILL he should have 90-100 WILL. Select him and only him for PSI testing and wait 10 days. He should have Psi-Abilities.
- This also works if you put a COLONEL in the Psi Lab then wait a few hours and place a second COLONEL in the Psi Lab. Each should come out of the Psi Lab 10 days later a few hours apart with Psi-Abilities.
- For me this worked 5 out of 6 times but this meant 40+ days of training.
- This means that WILL does influence Psi-Abilities (of course it does, author, it says so explicitly in-game!), and also it may matter how many at the same time.