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How are SHIVs built and equipped? Do they all have improvements if you've researched them? Or do you have to buy those improvements and equip them manually? How do they play out in battle? I'm just going to take my time on my first(Normal) game for now to tinker with all the toys the game gives me.
They automatically get upgraded with new weapons and the suppression ability. The SHIV, Alloy SHIV and Hover SHIV are separate builds though so you have to build each one separately, but if you build a SHIV right away and then later get laser/plasma SHIV weapon or SHIV suppression your existing SHIVs get it without having to build a new one.