Skills
Table of Contents
Endurance
Properties
- Increases base maximum Health by 20 points per level.
- Grants 3% resistance (i.e. chance to fully ignore effect) per level against Knockback, Burning (Fire) and Freezing (Cryo).
- Reduces Tranquilization/Paralysis and Poisoning buildup rate (i.e. amount of effect contracted if not resisted) by 5% per level.
Secondary specialization: Reduces Pull and Push AP cost by 1. Grants an additional 20% physical damage reduction when below 25% max. Health.
Primary specialization: Increases stimulant effectiveness by 50% and grants +75% Knockback resistance.
Perfect for the Squad Role: Bastion
Equipment that excels with this skill:
Agility
Properties
- Increases base maximum Action Points by 3 per level.
- Increases the base chance of opportunity/reaction fire in Ranged Defense by 10% per level.
- Adds a 5% chance per level that an AP will not be lost when being knocked into an obstacle.
Secondary specialization: Reduces jumping Action Points cost by 1, and increases jumping range by 1. (Jumping further costs more APs!)
Primary specialization: Reduces the base Action Points cost of diagonal movement to 2, and that of stance change by 1.
Mental Conditioning
Properties
- Increases base maximum Morale by 10 points per level.
- The higher the level, the lower the chance the unit will fall into Panic or Berserk, and the severity of such states is also lower.
- Highly trained units have a chance to “feel out” enemies that have “psychic” abilities, and are less likely to get stealth ambushed.
Secondary specialization: The unit will never Panic, or attack friendlies in Berserk state.
Primary specialization: Increases Morale gain from kills by 5, and reduces all Morale requirements by 3.
Melee combat
Properties
- Increases the base minimum damage of melee attacks (in respect to the potential max. damage) by 20% per level (0-100%).
- Predominantly determines the unit's Melee Attack and Defense values based on the weapon. (These are then compared to the defender's/attacker's corresponding values.)
- Increases total Armor rating by 5% per level.
Secondary specialization: Increases melee Critical Hit Chance (CHC) by 5%, and melee Critical Damage Factor (CDF) by 25%.
Primary specialization: Yields a 25% additional melee damage reduction, and reduces Defense Mode AP cost to 8 (even with firearms).
Perfect for the Squad Role: Bastion
Weapons that excel with this skill:
Marksmanship
Properties
- Increases the base minimum damage of ranged attacks with “small arms”–mostly standard ballistic guns–in respect to the potential max. damage by 20% per level (0-100%).
- Increases accuracy with small arms by 1 per level. This counters range and a small target size.
- Reduces spread by 1% per level.
- Reduces attack AP cost by 5% per level.
Secondary specialization: Reduces the AP cost of reloading/unloading by 50% for all small arms.
Primary specialization: Increases ranged Critical Hit Chance (CHC) by 5%, and ranged Critical Damage Factor (CDF) by 15% with small arms.
Perfect for the Squad Role:
Weapons that excel with this skill:
Heavy arms
Properties
- Increases the base minimum damage of ranged attacks with “heavy arms” by 20% per level.
ONLY WITH HEAVY ARMS, ALSO:
- Increases Critical Hit Chance (CHC) by 1% per level.
- Increases Critical Damage by 5% per level.
- Reduces attack AP cost by 5% per level.
- Reduces loading AP cost by 10% per level.
- At max. level, increases accuracy by 2.
Secondary specialization: Increases all elemental damage/effect dealt by heavy arms by 25%. Applies to both inherent and ammo-based values.
Primary specialization: Hits with heavy arms will always do damage to Armor (min. 2), and cause Bleeding (min. 3, no crit. hit needed).
Perfect for the Squad Role: Heavy arm specialist
Weapons that excel with this skill:
Field expertise
Properties
Reduces the Action Points cost of:
- using ladders and manholes,
- and operating other mechanical devices by 12% per level (by min. 1 at max. level.)
Secondary specialization: Increases static Melee and Ranged Defense bonus from directional cover by 4 (-30% hit chance) if it's at least 1.
Primary specialization: Removes all item type restrictions from inventory slots, and equipping a weapon now only costs 1 AP.
Weapons that excel with this skill:
Electrotechnics
Properties
- Reduces the Action Points cost of using electronic devices and gadgets, deploying mines and turrets, and hacking systems by 10% per level.
- Increases deployed turret damage & effectiveness of repairs, welding, etc. by 5% per level.
- Increases the base success chance of hacking operations by 15% per level. (0% at level 0.)
- Hacking chance is reduced by 25% / target level.
Secondary specialization: Can hack non-hardwired adjacent systems without using any gadget/device. Increases base chance of success by 25%.
Primary specialization: Can hack hardwired systems without using a dedicated device (still need a basic one!). +25% base success chance.
Perfect for the Squad Role: Technician
Weapons and Equipment that excel with this skill:
Biochemistry
Properties
- Reduces the Action Points cost of using medical items, chemical compounds, and other related biotech devices by 6% per level.
- Increases the amount of all healing and anti-hazard effects administered by this unit (either to self or to others) by 12% per level.
- Increases all Tranquilizing, Acid and Poison damage dealt directly by this unit by 10% per level.
Secondary specialization: Acid and Poison damage taken is reduced by 25%. Acid buildup decays faster. Can stop double the Bleeding with items.
Primary specialization: Treating a unit with missing Health of less than 50% of the max. item effectiveness will not consume the item.
Perfect for the Squad Role: Medic
Equipment that excels with this skill:
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