Skills
Skills are a numerical representation of your character's ability to perform specific tasks.
There are two main ways to increase your skills: reading skill books and using skill points that you earn every level.
All of your skills have a cap, i.e., a limit on how high they can go. In most cases, you can overcome that limit via the Learning skill.
Some of the skills apply passively and some can be used directly. The table below lists the active skills' associated action point costs as well as the base cap of each skill.
Some support perks require a specific skill level before they can be acquired. For example, Educated requires Science ≥ 100%.
| Skill | Default cap | Base AP use cost |
|---|---|---|
| Small Guns | 300 | - |
| Big Guns | 300 | - |
| Energy Weapons | 300 | - |
| Close Combat | 300 | - |
| Throwing | 300 | - |
| First Aid | 200 | 5 |
| Doctor | 200 | 5 |
| Sneak | 300 | 5 |
| Robbery | 200 | 5 |
| Engineering | 200 | 5 |
| Traps | 150 | 5 |
| Science | 200 | 5 |
| Repair | 200 | 5 |
| Speech | 300 | - |
| Barter | 150 | - |
| Crafting | 200 | - |
| Outdoorsman | 200 | - |
Small Guns
Small Guns (SG) is a combat skill that determines your ability to handle:
- Assault Rifles
- Damage Pistols
- Explosive Small Guns
- Fast Pistols
- Range Pistols
- Shotguns
- SMGs
- Sniper Rifles
- Support Rifles
The higher your Small Guns skill, the higher your chance to hit with the listed weapon types and the less condition they lose every time you fire them.
Big Guns
Big Guns (BG) is a combat skill that determines your ability to handle:
The higher your Big Guns skill, the higher your chance to hit with the listed weapon types and the less condition they lose every time you fire them.
Energy Weapons
Energy Weapons (EW) is a combat skill that determines your ability to handle:
The higher your Energy Weapons skill, the higher your chance to hit with the listed weapon types and the less condition they lose every time you fire them.
Close Combat
Close Combat (CC) is a combat skill that determines your ability to handle:
- Clubs
- Damage Knives
- Fast Knives
- Hammers
- Punch Weapons
- Spears
- Various stackable objects that aren't really weapons but can be used to perform melee attacks, such as Uranium Ore or Shovel
The higher your Close Combat skill, the higher your chance to hit with the listed weapon types and the less condition they lose every time you use them.
Throwing
Throwing is a combat skill that determines your ability to handle grenades and any other objects that can be thrown (rocks, spears, etc.)
The higher your Throwing skill, the more accurate are your throws. This includes hex throwing (throwing an item in your active slot to a specific hex using the tilde (~) key.
Note that your Throwing range (the distance that you're able to reach with your throws) depends on your Strength rather than the Throwing skill.
