Intrinsics

Intrinsics is a skill point based system that determines how adept the player is in utilizing all the systems aboard their Railjack. Unlike other Railjack-related systems, Intrinsics affect the player rather than the Railjack, and thus players are able to use any abilities unlocked by Intrinsics even when they are aboard another player's Railjack.

There are four main Intrinsic classes that the player can invest in, with each class having a max rank of 10: Tactical, Piloting, Gunnery, and Engineering.

Intrinsic Points are earned by completing Empyrean missions and performing actions that aid in the mission's success, such as repairing hull damage, killing boarding parties, etc.

Each Intrinsic rank gained rewards the player with 1,500 Mastery points. There is currently no way to respec points, although staff members at Digital Extremes have talked about plans to implement this when the Command Intrinsic is added at a later date. Whether this will be through a craftable item or available as standard is currently unknown. Ranking all four classes to rank 10 costs a total of 4092 Intrinsics and awards 60,000 Mastery points points.

Players can access their Intrinsics via the Dry Dock console or from the menu, Esc → Profile → Intrinsics.

Command
The Command intrinsic is a planned intrinsic category, although it is displayed on the Intrinsics page in-game there is no current way to interact with or upgrade it like other branches of Intrisics.

It has been stated by Digital Extremes staff members that the Command Intrinsic will allow players to control friendly NPC crew members, notably converted Kuva Liches, and is designed more around facilitating solo play at harder difficulties. However, the details on a release date for such a feature or a more expanded explanation have not been announced as of current day.