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Outer Worlds 2
Best Stealth Build
✧ Best Builds: Science | Stealth | Gunslinger
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✦ Best Flaws | Best Perks
The Stealth build allows you to quickly and quietly take down enemies in Outer Worlds 2. Learn more about what skills and perks to get for the stealth build, as well as what weapons and armor to equip, here!
Best Stealth Build
Build Summary
| Stealth Build | |
|---|---|
| Background | Any Background |
| Traits |
 Nimble Nimble You're quick and dexterous, able to move quickly while stealthing and in combat.
 Brilliant Brilliant You're intelligent, able to easily solve problems and pick up new skills.
 Sickly Sickly Your body is weak, prone to breaks, scrapes, and illness. Injuries and crashing from primers are more likely.
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| Skills |
 Guns Guns The Guns skill increases damage dealt with all types of guns, including ballistic, shock, plasma and bio guns. Investing in the Guns skill allows you to select perks that further improve your ability to use guns of various types.
 Hack Hack The Hack skill allows unauthorized access to various mechanical systems such as terminals, automechanicals and vending machines. Investing in the Hack skill allows you to select perks that let you disable automechs directly, hack into bounty terminals, and access the restricted inventory of vending machines.
 Lockpick Lockpick The Lockpick skills allows you to unlock locked containers and doors. Investing in the Lockpick skill allows you to select perks that grant the ability to pickpocket humans and preview the contents of locked containers.
 Melee Melee The Melee skill increases damage dealt with Melee weapons. Investing in the Melee skill allows you to select perks that further improve your ability to use melee weapons of various types.
 Observation Observation The Observation skill reveals hidden objects inthe world and the subtle behaviors in conversations. Investing in the Observation skill allows you to select perks that lets you find more loot, track enemies, and more effectively use enemy weakpoints.
 Sneak Sneak The sneak skill makes it harder for enemies to detect you while crouched. Investing in the Sneak skill allows you to select perks that avoid traps and perform sneak attacks.
 Speech Speech The speech skill allows you to better influence others in conversations. Investing in the Speech skill allows you to select perks that let you get discounts a vendors, intimidate others, and gain more reputation with factions.
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| Weapons | |
| Armor |  Monocular Target-Finder
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| Pros and Cons | |
 High Sneak Damage Good at Sniping and quietly killing nearby enemies Low survivability |
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The Stealth Build prioritizes concealment and assassination above all, taking enemies down quietly by either sniping them from afar or with a well-placed knife to the back.
Best Stealth Build Background
Any Background Works
Any background will work for the Stealth build, as they are mostly for roleplay and dialogue options. The Professor background, however, has a slight advantage as you get numerous exclusive dialogue options with the background, some of which can help bypass dangerous situations.
Best Stealth Build Traits
Positive Traits
 Nimble |
・+25% Crouch Speed ・+25% Combat Sprint Speed |
|---|---|
 Brilliant |
・During skill selection, Specialize in 1 additional skill. Specialized skills start with 2 points. |
For Positive Traits, we highly recommend Nimble and Brilliant. Nimble provides Crouch Speed to help with sneaking, as well as Combat Sprint Speed to help make distance and reposition should combat break out.
Brilliant, on the other hand, will allow you to pick another Specialized skill, giving you an advantage in the early game.
Negative Traits
| Trait | Effect |
|---|---|
 Sickly |
・-15% Base Health ・-15 Toxicity Crash Threshold |
 Dumb |
・During skill selection, lock 5 of the 12 available skills. Those skills can never have points added to them. |
As you will be picking two Positive Traits, you will also need to pick a Negative Trait. We highly recommend either Sickly or Dumb. As you will be avoiding combat as much as possible, Sickly's reduced Base Health and Toxicity Crash Threshold shouldn't affect you as much.
Alternatively, you can select Dumb and lock out Engineering, Explosives, Medical, Science!, and Leadership as you won't be using those skills as much.
Best Stealth Build Flaws
| Flaw | Positive Effect | Negative Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Bad Knees | +50% Crouch Speed | Crouching emits a 10m radius sound that hostiles can hear and investigate |
| Treacherous | +50% Enemy Awareness Depletion Rate & +100% Sneak Attack Damage | -25% Base Health |
| Anger Mismanagement | +25% Power Attack Damage | +50% Damage Received While Blocking |
| N-Radiated | Camouflaged: Invisible to enemies and deal bonus damage. Cooldown: 30s. | Whenever you take damage, there is a 5% chance you become Camouflaged automatically, but take an additional 5% of your max health as N-Ray damage. |
These are the Best Flaws to get for the Stealth Build. These flaws provide effects that strengthen your ability to stay hidden, your movement while hidden, and the damage your Sneak Attacks deal. Their negative effects are either manageable or easy to play around.
Best Stealth Build Skills
Specialized Skills
| Specialized Skills | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sneak |
Lockpick |
Hack |
As a Stealth Build, you will primarily be sneaking around and looking for alternate paths to avoid enemies. Sneak increases your Sneak damage and lowers NPC Detection Rate, while Lockpick and Hack allow you to find alternate paths and quest solutions.
Other Useful Skills
| Useful Skills | ||
|---|---|---|
| Guns |
Melee |
Observation |
Other than the Specialized skills, you will also need to take Guns and Melee to improve your damage. Get Observation as well as this not only improves your Weakspot damage, but also reveals hidden things like containers and pathways.
Final Skill Allocation
| Skill | Points | Priority |
|---|---|---|
| Sneak |
15 | High |
| Melee |
15 | High |
| Guns |
10 | High |
| Hack |
9 | Medium |
| Lockpick |
9 | Medium |
| Observation |
6 | Low |
This includes the 58 Skill Points you get from leveling up to 30, as well as the 6 points you get from Brilliant
This Skill allocation will allow you to sneak around and deal massive amounts of damage. Additionally, it will help you unlock all of the Perks you need for the build.
Prioritize leveling Sneak before upgrading your Guns and Melee. Add points into Hack and Lockpick when needed, then put the rest into Observation.
Best Stealth Build Perks
Essential Perks
| Level | Perk | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 2 |
 Assassin
|
・Assassin: Movement Speed +100% for 5s |
| 4 | Trophy Hunter | ・+5% Critical Chance
・+15% additional Critcal Chance against Strong enemies. |
| 6 |
 Heavy Handed
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・Knocks down enemies hit with a melee power attack. |
| 8 |
 Ghost
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・Invisible to enemies and deal bonus damage. 3 minutes cooldown. |
| 10 |
 Sharpshooter
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・+100% Sneak Attack Damage
・+30% Damage to far enemies ・-15% Damage to near enemies |
| 12 |
 Tracker
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・Minimap tracks enemies current position and detection radius |
| 14 |
 Pickpocket
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・Allows you to pickpocket NPCs |
| 16 |
 Stalker
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・+200% Sneak Attack Damage |
| 18 |
 Silent Steps
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・Footsteps are silent for 8 seconds. |
| 20 |
 Light Step
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・Safely walk over mines and traps. |
| 22 |
 Crabble Rancher
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・+10% Ranged Damage
・+20% Critical Chance |
| 24 |
 Eden Windage
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・+25% Weapon Range
・+25% Weakspot Damage |
| 26 |
 Pitch/Tossball Hacker
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・Ignore 50% of the target's Armor Value when attacking with a melee weapon. |
| 28 |
 Suppressionist
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・-75% Firing Noise
・+100% Sneak Attack Damage |
| 30 |
 Vital Striker
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・+100% Sneak Attack Damage |
These are the perks that you should get for the Stealth build. All of these perks work toward making it easier to sneak, as well as improving your Sneak Attack Damage, be it with Guns or Melee weapons.
We recommend tagging these skills as your Favorite to make it easier to find them and see their Skill requirements.
Best Stealth Build Equipment
Weapon Loadout
| Weapon | Mods |
|---|---|
 The Simplifier
|
・Silencer ・Pinpoint Assassin |
 Murder's Best Friend
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・Covert Grip ・Killing Spree |
The Stealth Build's lineup will revolve around two weapons: The Simplifier Sniper Rifle, and the Murder's Best Friend Knife. The Simplifier allows you to snipe targets from a distance, as it has near-perfect accuracy, no falloff damage, and a custom scope.
Murder's Best Friend, on the other hand, increases your damage and Crouch Movement Speed with each kill (capping at 3 kills). This makes it perfect for stealthily taking down enemies while you are infiltrating.
Should you have another weapon slot available (via the Extra Holster mod), bring an alternate Gun that you can use if you get detected. Good options include the Chainspark Cannon or a Triple Barrel Shotgun.
Armor Loadout
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|---|---|
| Weapons | Armor |
| Armor | Mods |
|---|---|
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Monocular Target-Finder
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・Range Scanner ・Mass Distributor |
 Native Species
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・Defensive Plates ・From Nowhere ・Cauterizing Materials |
This armor loadout is the best for Stealth builds as they improve your stealth capabilities and increase your Weakspot Damage. The Monocular Target-Finder improves your Weakspot Damage by up to 30% based on your distance from the target, on top of the helmet's innate +10% Weakspot Damage.
Native Species, on the other hand, reduces your weapon's sound radius by up to 50% based on your Sneak skill. This makes it easier to snipe enemies without being discovered.
Best Stealth Build Companions
| Companion | Perks |
|---|---|
 Niles |
・I Got 'Em ・Spotter ・Self Repairing Armor ・Ghost Array Mod ・Dumb Aggression ・Smokescreen Emitter |
 Aza |
・From the Shadows ・Strike From Smoke ・Assisted Takedowns ・Shorten the Fuse ・Flurry of Blades ・N-Ray Charge |
When running a Stealth build, bring along Niles and Aza as your Companions. Niles serves as both the tank and stealth support, while Aza is your dedicated stealth support.
Niles will help you hide from enemies and will taunt enemies during combat to divert damage away from you. Aza, on the other hand, will improve your sneak damage, as well as deal massive amounts of damage to enemies that Niles is taunting.
Best Stealth Build Items
Gadget
Auntie's Acidic Dematerializer and N-Ray Scanner
The best gadgets for the Stealth build are Auntie's Acidic Dematerializer and the N-Ray Scanner.
The Dematerializer allows you to dissolve bodies that you take down, preventing them from being discovered by other enemies. The N-Ray Scanner, on the other hand, allows you to see enemies through walls, making it easier to sneak around.
Inhaler
Adreno Spume Boom Starter Plus
The Adreno Spume Boom Starter Plus is the best Inhaler for the Stealth build, as not only does it provide immediate healing, but it also provides healing over time, allowing you to heal large amounts of HP per Medical Inhaler use.
Throwable
Distraction Device
The Distraction Device is the best throwable you can equip for the Stealth build as it helps you distract guards, allowing you to either sneak past them or take them down easily.
Outer Worlds 2 Related Guides
All Character Builds
| Character Builds | |
|---|---|
| Stealth | Science |
| Gunslinger | Melee |
| Leadership | |
All Background Builds
| Background Builds | |
|---|---|
| Ex-Convict | Gambler |
| Lawbringer | Professor |
| Renegade | Roustabout |
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