▷The Outer World - Skills Guide and What They Do 🥇

Skills are a staple of any role-playing adventure and you can bet they are meaningful in Obsidian Entertainment's upcoming title The Outer Worlds. You will be playing as a citizen in the midst of a sci-fi nightmare where you are forced to watch futuristic corporations engage in scathing tactics to make a quick buck. The adventure is going to rely a lot on what your character can and cannot do. Here is a full and complete list of those skills and details in the game.

The Outer Worlds Skills Guide

The skills are divided into seven different sections. They give another degree of definition to your character. For example, your character might be great in melee, but what kind of melee do they prefer? Are they better with two-handed or one-handed guns? If they have good defense, can they better avoid or block an attack? If they know how to dialogue well, is it because they are persuasive or do they lie mainly?

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The first 50 points you put in each skill will increase all skills in the category. For example, Melee is divided into one-handed and two-handed melee weapons. If you choose to specialize in this category, the first 50 points increase those two choices. However, when you are over 50, you can choose to put the points in 1 or 2 hands directly. The first 50 points are a way to get a feel for the technique before you really specialize.

You can use a special passive for every 20 points you put into the skill. So for the first 50 you put in one, you earn the first two passives for everything in that category, but after 50 you have to start by choosing which ones you want to specialize during your game.

The skills section is the time for you to start playing the type of character you want to play during the game. Here's a full list of those seven categories and the additional choices you can make to further define your character.

Dialogue

Intimidate

20: You gain Terrify: You have a 20% chance that an enemy will be terrified and flee from combat for 10 seconds after killing something else
40: You increase the area of effect of terror by 100%
60: Movement speed of terrified creatures is reduced by 30%
80: Creatures have 10% chance to gain Terrified
100: When your character terrifies a creature, they have a 5% success chance and 25% critical strike damage for 10 seconds.

Lie

20: You gain scramble - 15% chance that Mechanics will ride other creatures than you for 17 seconds
40: Scramble duration increases by seven seconds
60: Scrambled automechanics have normal attack speed
80: Increases jamming chance of Auto Machines by 10%
100: Scrambled Auto Mechanics deal 30% more weak point damage

Persuade

20: You're Afraid - Humans have a 20% chance to shake in fear for three seconds after the first attack on them.
40: Cower now lasts an additional seven seconds
60: All human tremors have 50% armor
80: It increases the chances of human growth by 10%
100: When a human curls up, you gain 25% armor for 10 seconds

Defense

Block

20: You Get Perfect Block - When you block right before you get hit it suffocates the enemy
40: Your weapon's durability loss decreases by 25% when blocking
60: Your walking speed increases by 100% when you block
80: When you perfect blocking, you no longer lose your weapon's durability
100: When you perform a Perfect Block, your enemies are weakened and their damage taken is increased by 100% for five seconds.

dodge

20: You can now use the ability to leap
40: After dodging, your recovery increases by 100%
60: You have anti-dodge protection: your armor is rated at 30% five seconds after your dodge
80: You gain dodge forces - After dodging your melee attacks will deal 50% more damage
100: You gain dodge penetration - After dodging, your character's weak spots have the option to ignore all armor for five seconds.

Direction

Determination

20: When your inhaler heals you, your companions get 30% of its healing effects
40: Your companions take 20% more hit damage
60: Companions will receive 25% more healing effects from your inhaler
80: You gain Resolve - When your companions are downed, your party gains 50% armor rating and damage for 10 seconds
100: When your companion kills an enemy, he recovers 50% of his health points

Inspiration

20: You gain Companion Skills - Your character can now order your companions to do special attacks during combat
40: All of your companions have 20 percent more armor.
60: Your companion's skills grant your character's skills a 100% bonus.
80: You gain Inspired Accuracy - When one of your companions defeats an enemy, the entire party gains an increased critical hit chance by 20% for five seconds.
100: When a companion kills an enemy, the cooldowns of all of your companions decrease by 20%.

Melee

1-handed melee

20: You can use power and sweep attacks
40: You Can Use TTD Location Hit Effects With Your Attacks
60: The range of your one-handed weapon increases by 30%
80: Your one-handed weapons use 50% less TTD
100: Your potency and sweep attacks have a 25% chance to stun

2-handed scrum

20: You can use power and sweep attacks
40: You Can Use TTD Location Hit Effects With Your Attacks
60: Your two-handed attacks are unblockable
80: Your two-handed weapons use 50% less TTD
100: Your potency and soft attacks have a 25% chance to knock down your enemy

Remote

Handguns

20: You Can Use TTD Location Hit Effects With Your Attacks
40: Your handguns have a 50% chance to critically pass.
60: Your handguns have a minimum armor penetration of 10% damage to your enemies.
80: Your handguns have a 20% chance to deal critical damage to battered enemies.
100: Critical hits from your handgun ignore 100% of your enemy's armor

Heavy artillery

20: You Can Use TTD Location Hit Effects With Your Attacks
40: Your heavy weapons have a 50% chance to be criticized.
60: The reload speed of your heavy weapons increases by 30%
80: When your heavy weapons have a critical hit, their rate of fire increases by 30% for three seconds
100: Your critical hit with heavy weapons ignores 100% of your enemy's armor.

Long guns

20: You Can Use TTD Location Hit Effects With Your Attacks
40: Your long guns have a 50% chance to critically test.
60: Head damage and weakness of your long weapon increase by 20%
80: After a death, for five seconds, your long weapon is uninfluenced.
100: Critical hits from your long gun ignore 100% of your enemy's armor

Stealthy

To hack

20: You can sell your goods at vending machines
40: You have access to prohibited items in vending machines
60: You can hack mechanical components and disable them for 10 seconds
80: Automatic machines cannot detect you in an additional 30% range
100: You can hack mechanics an additional 2,5 meters, for a total of 5 meters

Lockpick

20: free access to doors and containers requiring at least one Mag-pick
40: You can find 25% more bits in containers
60: Before choosing a lock, you preview the contents of a container.
80: your lock speed increases almost instantly
100: You have a 100% chance of finding immaculate items

Sneak

20: You gain sneak attacks - You can attack oblivious enemies while crouching and deal more damage than usual
40: You can catch the thief - rob the man while you are crouching
60: Your movement speed while crouching increases by 25%
80: The damage of your small dot attacks increases by 20%
100: Your stealth attack will ignore 50% of your opponent's armor.

Technology

Engineering

20: You earn field repairs - You can repair armor and weapons in your inventory
40: You can break down your weapons and armor with a 20% chance to extract a base mod from the materials
60: Your repair has a 20% chance to turn your item into Pristine, increasing its value and durability.
80: You can break down your weapon armor with a 20% chance to extract rare mod from materials
100: You deal 20% more damage to mechanical components.

Medical

20: You unlock the second medicine mixing compartment for your inhaler.
40: You unlock the third medicine mixing slot for your inhaler.
60: Hostile effect duration inflicted on targets increases by 50%
80: you unlock the fourth medicine mixing slot for your inhaler
100: You deal 20% more damage against humans

Science

20: You earn DIY - You can upgrade your weapons and armor on a workbench
40: the cost of your DIY decreases by 50%
60: Corrosion and N-ray damage increased by 25%
80: Your DIY costs are reduced to 90%
100: Science weapons are lightweight, and they are 100% the size of a magazine.

Choose your skills wisely and make sure you define your character type well. The outer worlds. Also, make sure you know what benefits they might gain along the way.

The Outer Worlds releases October 25 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC through the Epic Games Store.