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The Melee and Firearms skill will improve both accuracy and damage of their respective weapons, but not as much as the weapon's main skill (handguns, cutting weapons etc.)<noinclude> | The Melee and Firearms skill will improve both accuracy and damage of their respective weapons, but not as much as the weapon's main skill (handguns, cutting weapons etc.)<noinclude> | ||
== Bartering == | |||
Your skill in bargaining, haggling, and trading with others. Higher levels increase the odds of getting the better end of a deal, and might even see you convincing others to give you free stuff. | |||
== Computers== | |||
Your skill in accessing and manipulating computers. Higher levels can allow a user to navigate complex software systems and even bypass their security. | |||
== | == Construction== | ||
Your | Your general competence in building [[construction]]. This governs the complexity of structures that can be built, and the time required to build them. | ||
Digging [[construction|pits]] is an easy way to raise this skill up. You just need a [[shovel]], [[stone shovel]] or [[digging stick]]. | |||
== Cooking== | |||
Your skill in combining [[comestibles|food]] ingredients [[crafting#Food|to make]] other, tastier food items. It may also be used in certain chemical mixtures and other, more esoteric tasks. | |||
== | == Driving == | ||
Your skill at | Your skill in operating and steering a vehicle in motion. A higher level allows greater control over vehicles at higher speeds, and reduces the penalty of shooting while [[Vehicles#Driving_vehicles|driving]]. | ||
== | == Electronics== | ||
Your skill | Your skill in dealing with electrical systems, used in the [[crafting#Electronic|craft]] and repair of objects with electrical components. This skill is an important part of installing and managing bionic implants. | ||
Apart from reading [[books]] on the subject, you can easily raise this skill by disassembling {{k|(}} any electronic device you find and don't need (like [[flashlights]]). | |||
== | == Fabrication == | ||
Your skill | Your skill in working with raw materials and shaping them into useful objects. This skill plays an important role in the [[crafting]] of many objects. | ||
== | == First Aid== | ||
Your skill | Your skill in effecting emergency medical treatment. Higher levels allow better use of medicines and items like [[bandages]] and [[first aid]] kits, and reduce the failure and complication rates of medical procedures. | ||
== | == Mechanics== | ||
Your skill | Your skill in engineering, maintaining and [[vehicles#Vehicle repairs|repairing vehicles]] and other mechanical systems. This skill covers the craft of items with complex parts, and plays a role in the installation of [[bionic]] equipment. | ||
Apart from reading [[books]] on the subject, you can easily raise this skill by [[Vehicles#Modifying_a_vehicle|removing and reinstalling]] parts of a vehicle. | |||
== | == Speaking== | ||
Your | Your skill in speaking to [[NPC|other people]]. Covers ability in boasting, flattery, threats, persuasion, lies, and other facets of interpersonal communication. Works best in conjunction with a high level of intelligence. | ||
== | == Survival== | ||
Your skill | Your skill in surviving the wilderness, and in crafting various basic survival items. This also covers your ability to skin and butcher animals for meat and hides. | ||
For a more efficient butchering you'll need this skill at level 3, dexterity at 8 and strength at 4 or higher. | |||
Apart from reading [[books]] on the subject, you can easily raise this skill by butchering corpses (including those of zombies), [[crafting#Misc|crafting]] stone hammers and, later, digging sticks and snare triggers. | |||
== | == Swimming== | ||
Your | Your ability to stay afloat and move around in bodies of water. This skill keeps you from drowning, affects your combat effectiveness and speed in deep water, and determines the detriment of swimming with heavier gear. | ||
== | == Tailoring== | ||
Your skill | Your skill in the craft and repair of [[clothing]], bags, blankets and other textiles. Affects knitting, sewing, stitching, weaving, and nearly anything else involving a needle and thread. | ||
A good way to increase this skill is repair up to reinforced any cloth pieces you find when looting and that you don't plan to use for yourself. Avoid practising on your own clothes at lower levels, as you might destroy them in the process. | |||
== | == Trapping == | ||
Your skill and | Your skill in setting and disarming [[traps]] safely and effectively. This skill does not affect the detection of hidden traps, or the evasion of traps that are triggered. | ||
== | == Archery == | ||
Your skill | Your skill in using [[bow]] weapons, from hand-carved self bows to complex hunting crossbows. Quiet and effective, they require strength of body and sight to wield, and are not terribly accurate over a long distance. | ||
You can start training this skill either by reading [[Books#Archery_for_Kids|a magazine]] or by using any bow, composite bow or crossbow you find. Those are usually found in sporting goods stores or by deactivating or triggering traps (only for the [[traps#crossbow trap|crossbow trap]]). Once you have at least one skill point you can easily increase this skill by [[crafting]] bolts and arrows. | |||
== Bashing weapons == | |||
Your skill in fighting with [[melee weapons|blunt weaponry]], from rocks and sticks to baseball bats and the butts of rifles. Skill increases damage, and higher levels will improve the accuracy of an attack. | |||
== | == Cutting weapons== | ||
Your skill in fighting with [[melee weapons|weaponry designed to cut]], hack and slash an opponent. Lower levels of skill increase accuracy and damage, while higher levels will help to bypass heavy armor and thick hides. | |||
== | == Dodge == | ||
Your skill | Your ability to dodge an oncoming threat, be it an enemy's attack, a triggered trap, or a falling rock. This skill is also used in attempts to fall gracefully, and for other acrobatic feats. | ||
== Firearms == | |||
Your overall skill in using [[firearms]]. With higher levels, this general experience increases accuracy with any gun, but is secondary to practice with the type of gun in question. | |||
It also allows you to apply [[Firearms_modifications|modifications]] to your guns. | |||
== | == Launchers == | ||
Your | Your skill in using heavy weapons like rocket, grenade or missile launchers. These weapons have a variety of applications and may carry immense destructive power, but they are cumbersome and hard to manage. | ||
== Melee == | |||
Your skill and finesse in personal combat, both with and without a weapon. Higher levels can significantly increase the accuracy and effectiveness of your physical attacks. | |||
== | == Piercing weapons== | ||
Your skill in | Your skill in fighting with knives, spears and other such stabbing implements. Skill increases attack accuracy as well as the chance of inflicting a deadly and critical blow. | ||
== Throwing == | |||
Your skill in throwing objects over a distance. Skill increases accuracy, and at higher levels, the range of a throw. | |||
Increases both accuracy and, at higher levels, range. Throwing costs 125 moving points.<!-- Each trown item practice skill by 10 points.--> | |||
An easy way to raise this skill is by gathering some rocks and throwing them at the evac shelter walls. | |||
== | == Unarmed combat == | ||
Your skill | Your skill in hand-to-hand fighting. For the unskilled, it's a good way to get hurt, but those with enough practice can perform special blows and techniques to quickly dispatch enemies. | ||
Raising this skill allows you to use more powerful [[martial arts]] techniques. | |||
== | == Handguns == | ||
[[Handguns]] have poor accuracy compared to rifles, but are usually quick to fire and reload faster than other guns. They are very effective at close quarters, though unsuited for long range engagement. | |||
== | == Rifles == | ||
[[Rifles]] have terrific range and accuracy compared to other firearms, but may be slow to fire and reload, and can prove difficult to use in close quarters. Fully automatic rifles can fire rapidly, but are harder to handle properly. | |||
== | == Shotguns == | ||
[[Shotguns]] are easy to shoot and can inflict massive damage, but their effectiveness and accuracy decline rapidly with range. Slugs can be loaded into shotguns to provide greater range, though they are somewhat inaccurate. | |||
This skill also includes the use of flamethrowers. | |||
== | == Submachine guns == | ||
Comprised of an automatic rifle carbine designed to fire a pistol cartridge, [[submachine guns]] can reload and fire quickly, sometimes in bursts, but they are relatively inaccurate and may be prone to mechanical failures. | |||
</noinclude> | </noinclude> | ||
[[Category:skills]] | [[Category:skills]] | ||
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| Degradation scale | |
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| Level | Turn |
| 1 | 8192 |
| 2 | 4096 |
| 3 | 2048 |
| 4 | 1024 |
| 5 | 512 |
| 6 | 256 |
| 7+ | 128 |
Skills are raised upon practice (combat, crafting, tools usage), but only when the character has at least [skill level]+1 points of focus. The focus pool is not capped, but it requires higher morale to increase to higher levels, every few turns your focus is increased or decreased depending on your current morale. You can increase the speed at which you gain focus by increasing your morale.
You can also increase skill levels by reading books or being taught by NPCs. Note that reading skill books costs focus, but being trained does not.
You can toggle on and off the skill-gain of individual skills by pressing the SPACE bar in the Skills section of the player menu @.
If skill rust is turned on, skills will degrade after a while without practice. Skill percent has a 25% (33% with Forgetful trait) chance to be decremented every X number of turns, based on the current skill level. The higher the skill is, the faster it will rust. Skills that are displayed as red or pink have dropped below 0% practice and will eventually degrade a level if not used (when they reach -100% practice). Using the skill (or bumping it up via reading) will quickly bring it to or above 0%. Skill rusting can be stopped with the Enhanced Memory Banks bionic.
The Melee and Firearms skill will improve both accuracy and damage of their respective weapons, but not as much as the weapon's main skill (handguns, cutting weapons etc.)
Bartering
Your skill in bargaining, haggling, and trading with others. Higher levels increase the odds of getting the better end of a deal, and might even see you convincing others to give you free stuff.
Computers
Your skill in accessing and manipulating computers. Higher levels can allow a user to navigate complex software systems and even bypass their security.
Construction
Your general competence in building construction. This governs the complexity of structures that can be built, and the time required to build them.
Digging pits is an easy way to raise this skill up. You just need a shovel, stone shovel or digging stick.
Cooking
Your skill in combining food ingredients to make other, tastier food items. It may also be used in certain chemical mixtures and other, more esoteric tasks.
Driving
Your skill in operating and steering a vehicle in motion. A higher level allows greater control over vehicles at higher speeds, and reduces the penalty of shooting while driving.
Electronics
Your skill in dealing with electrical systems, used in the craft and repair of objects with electrical components. This skill is an important part of installing and managing bionic implants.
Apart from reading books on the subject, you can easily raise this skill by disassembling ( any electronic device you find and don't need (like flashlights).
Fabrication
Your skill in working with raw materials and shaping them into useful objects. This skill plays an important role in the crafting of many objects.
First Aid
Your skill in effecting emergency medical treatment. Higher levels allow better use of medicines and items like bandages and first aid kits, and reduce the failure and complication rates of medical procedures.
Mechanics
Your skill in engineering, maintaining and repairing vehicles and other mechanical systems. This skill covers the craft of items with complex parts, and plays a role in the installation of bionic equipment.
Apart from reading books on the subject, you can easily raise this skill by removing and reinstalling parts of a vehicle.
Speaking
Your skill in speaking to other people. Covers ability in boasting, flattery, threats, persuasion, lies, and other facets of interpersonal communication. Works best in conjunction with a high level of intelligence.
Survival
Your skill in surviving the wilderness, and in crafting various basic survival items. This also covers your ability to skin and butcher animals for meat and hides.
For a more efficient butchering you'll need this skill at level 3, dexterity at 8 and strength at 4 or higher.
Apart from reading books on the subject, you can easily raise this skill by butchering corpses (including those of zombies), crafting stone hammers and, later, digging sticks and snare triggers.
Swimming
Your ability to stay afloat and move around in bodies of water. This skill keeps you from drowning, affects your combat effectiveness and speed in deep water, and determines the detriment of swimming with heavier gear.
Tailoring
Your skill in the craft and repair of clothing, bags, blankets and other textiles. Affects knitting, sewing, stitching, weaving, and nearly anything else involving a needle and thread.
A good way to increase this skill is repair up to reinforced any cloth pieces you find when looting and that you don't plan to use for yourself. Avoid practising on your own clothes at lower levels, as you might destroy them in the process.
Trapping
Your skill in setting and disarming traps safely and effectively. This skill does not affect the detection of hidden traps, or the evasion of traps that are triggered.
Archery
Your skill in using bow weapons, from hand-carved self bows to complex hunting crossbows. Quiet and effective, they require strength of body and sight to wield, and are not terribly accurate over a long distance.
You can start training this skill either by reading a magazine or by using any bow, composite bow or crossbow you find. Those are usually found in sporting goods stores or by deactivating or triggering traps (only for the crossbow trap). Once you have at least one skill point you can easily increase this skill by crafting bolts and arrows.
Bashing weapons
Your skill in fighting with blunt weaponry, from rocks and sticks to baseball bats and the butts of rifles. Skill increases damage, and higher levels will improve the accuracy of an attack.
Cutting weapons
Your skill in fighting with weaponry designed to cut, hack and slash an opponent. Lower levels of skill increase accuracy and damage, while higher levels will help to bypass heavy armor and thick hides.
Dodge
Your ability to dodge an oncoming threat, be it an enemy's attack, a triggered trap, or a falling rock. This skill is also used in attempts to fall gracefully, and for other acrobatic feats.
Firearms
Your overall skill in using firearms. With higher levels, this general experience increases accuracy with any gun, but is secondary to practice with the type of gun in question.
It also allows you to apply modifications to your guns.
Launchers
Your skill in using heavy weapons like rocket, grenade or missile launchers. These weapons have a variety of applications and may carry immense destructive power, but they are cumbersome and hard to manage.
Melee
Your skill and finesse in personal combat, both with and without a weapon. Higher levels can significantly increase the accuracy and effectiveness of your physical attacks.
Piercing weapons
Your skill in fighting with knives, spears and other such stabbing implements. Skill increases attack accuracy as well as the chance of inflicting a deadly and critical blow.
Throwing
Your skill in throwing objects over a distance. Skill increases accuracy, and at higher levels, the range of a throw.
Increases both accuracy and, at higher levels, range. Throwing costs 125 moving points.
An easy way to raise this skill is by gathering some rocks and throwing them at the evac shelter walls.
Unarmed combat
Your skill in hand-to-hand fighting. For the unskilled, it's a good way to get hurt, but those with enough practice can perform special blows and techniques to quickly dispatch enemies.
Raising this skill allows you to use more powerful martial arts techniques.
Handguns
Handguns have poor accuracy compared to rifles, but are usually quick to fire and reload faster than other guns. They are very effective at close quarters, though unsuited for long range engagement.
Rifles
Rifles have terrific range and accuracy compared to other firearms, but may be slow to fire and reload, and can prove difficult to use in close quarters. Fully automatic rifles can fire rapidly, but are harder to handle properly.
Shotguns
Shotguns are easy to shoot and can inflict massive damage, but their effectiveness and accuracy decline rapidly with range. Slugs can be loaded into shotguns to provide greater range, though they are somewhat inaccurate.
This skill also includes the use of flamethrowers.
Submachine guns
Comprised of an automatic rifle carbine designed to fire a pistol cartridge, submachine guns can reload and fire quickly, sometimes in bursts, but they are relatively inaccurate and may be prone to mechanical failures.