Whenever i use the pause menu, everything i click stays connected and it connects everything i clicked at the same time, and it persists after time resumes
If you have a ragdoll grab something, put on the bionic chip, and then make it drop the thing, the thing it was holding will have the bionic chip properties, because they go to everything jointed or welded, including any objects they are holding beforehand.
I'm looking into it. You can disable blueprint under pause settings meanwhile, or pause+unpause to return to normal colours.