Diving into the expansive universe of The Outer Worlds 2, understanding and mastering your character’s skills is paramount to shaping your journey. These crucial abilities allow you to fine-tune your playstyle and build, profoundly influencing how you navigate challenges and interact with the game world.
Obsidian Entertainment has streamlined the skill system in The Outer Worlds 2, making each investment more potent and meaningful. Forget allocating countless points to niche weapon types; the new approach ensures every skill point contributes significantly to your character’s capabilities. These skills work in tandem with your chosen traits, offering deep customization that dictates your approach to both social encounters and intense combat scenarios in this thrilling RPG adventure.
Below, we break down all 12 core skills available in The Outer Worlds 2, detailing what each one offers to help you craft the perfect space-faring hero:
- Melee: Increases damage dealt with melee weapons, allowing you to further improve your ability to use melee weapons of various types. For every level, +10% melee damage and -2.5% damage received while blocking.
- Lockpick: For every level, +1 difficulty and lower locked chests and containers can be opened and +1% evasion chance.
- Leadership: For every level, +15% companion damage and +15% companion health
- Medical: Increases maximum toxicity, allowing more uses of the Pharmaceutical Inhaler at a time and increased resistance to Zyranium poisoning. Investing allows you to select perks that further improve the inhaler, temporarily tame creatures, and better utilize corrosive weapons. For every level, +7 toxicity crash threshold and 10% damage to creatures.
- Observation: Reveals hidden objects in the world and subtle behaviors in conversations. Investing allows you to select perks that let you find more loot, track enemies, and more effectively use enemy weakspots. For every level, +1 difficulty and lower hidden objects can be found and +15% weakspot damage.
- Science!: Increases your maximum gadget energy, allowing you to use gadgets like tactical time dilation for longer. Investing allows you to select perks that further improve your gadgets and potency with shock weapons. For every level, +7 gadget energy meter max and +10% more stacks of non-physical damage type side effects.
- Sneak: Makes it harder for enemies to detect you while crouched, allows you to select perks that avoid traps and perform sneak attacks. For every level, +35% sneak attack damage and -2.5% NPC awareness detection rate.
- Speech: For every level, +1 difficulty and lower speech checks can be overcome and 10% damage to humans.
- Engineering: Increase the effectiveness of all armor, granting inherent damage reduction. In conversations and while exploring, this skill aids in the ability to act on the knowledge of mechanical systems. Investing allows you to select perks that further increase your defenses and benefits from weapon, helmet, and armor mods. For every level, +1 difficulty and lower mechanical systems can be fixed and +1 damage resistance.
- Hack: Unknown
- Guns: Increases damage dealt with all types of guns, including ballistic, shock, plasma, and bio guns. Investing allows you to select perks that further improve your ability to use guns of various types. For every level, +40% ranged damage and +4% armor penetration.
- Explosives: Unknown
With a comprehensive understanding of The Outer Worlds 2 skills, you’re well-equipped to plan your character’s progression. Whether you favor close-quarters combat, cunning stealth, or charismatic leadership, these skills are your key to mastering the game’s rich and dynamic environments. Prepare to explore the cosmos and leave your unique mark!