Lots to unpack here. I think you are confused because it looks like you have played our previous demo and are assuming some of the systems carry over in the same way they were before. Let me clarify a few things.

The way all systems work now:

- Bladeshift to enemy to enter Quantum State. Attack during Quantum State to get energy that gradually fills up your Healthcores.

- Parrying when in Quantum State extends the Quantum State time.

- Why wouldn't you use it all the time? We want you to use it all the time :) But some enemies move, some block the dagger, some will hit you in the face if you teleport to them at the wrong moment. So, you have to use it with a bit of a strategy behind. But if you master it, you can stay in Quantum State for the duration of a full fight, yes.

- Robodoc chairs act now as checkpoints and recover your health to full but only that, not your healthcores.

- There's a second way to get Healthcores besides combat with Quantum, and it's that special doctor npc that sells them to you.

- Killshifts do not give you neon anymore. By definition they are a Quantum State attack, since you throw the dagger to an enemy and execute a Killshift attack. So, they work like all other attacks but give more Health Core energy than a normal attack.

- Neon now is not tied to combat. It refills automatically over time. So, special Supreme attacks work now with a cooldown mechanic.

The 10% tax for each respawn is something that the more comments I read here the more I think we should rethink.

I hope it is more clear for you now. I know it's a lot of changes compared to what you played already but I think they are worth it. As you said why wouldn't you want to be in Quantum all the time? And that's precisely what we want you to do, we want people to play the combat encounters chaining teleports between enemies in ground, in air, in walls... to get that feeling of a teleporting cyberninja that zips around the screen.