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Outer Worlds 2
List of All Skills
This is a list of all skills in the Outer Worlds 2. Read on to learn what each skill does, how they impact gameplay, how to increase them, and additional info about them!
| Skills-Related Pages | |
|---|---|
| List of All Skills | Best Skills |
List of All Skills
| Skill | Description |
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 Engineering
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The Engineering skill increases the effectiveness of all armor, granting inherent Damage Reduction. In conversations and while exploring, Engineering aids in the ability to act on the knowledge of mechanical systems. Investing in Engineering allows you to select perks that further increase your defenses and benefits from weapon, helmet and armor mods.
• Mechanical Systems with a difficulty at or below your skill level can be fixed. • +1% Damage Resistance |
 Explosives
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The Explosives skill increases damage dealt with explosive throwables such as grenades and mines, as well as weapons that deal damage in an area. While exploring, it allows the disarming of sensitive objects like mines and traps. Investing in Explosives allows you to select perks that increase the potency of explosives and plasma weapons.
• +10% Explosives Damage • +1% Damage Resistance against Explosives |
 Guns
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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.
• +10% Ranged Damage • +1% Armor Penetration |
 Hack
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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.
• Hack checks equal to your Hack skill and lower can be overcome • +5% Damage to Automechanicals |
 Leadership
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The Leadership skill increases the damage and survivability of your companons. Investing in Leadership allows you to select perks that let you use companion abilities more and improve the overall effectiveness of your companions.
• +8% Companion Damage • +4% Companion Health |
 Lockpick
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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.
• Locks with a difficulty at or below your skill level can be opened • +1% Evasion Chance |
 Melee
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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.
• +10% Melee Damage • -2% Damage Received While Blocking |
 Medical
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The Medical skill increases maximum Toxicity, allowing more uses of the Medical Inhaler at a time and increased resistance to Zyranium poisoning. Investing in the Medical skill allows you to select perks that further improve your inhaler, temporarily tame creatures, and make better use of corrosive weapons.
• +7 Toxicity Crash Threshold • +5% Damage to Creatures |
 Observation
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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.
• Hidden Objectives with a difficulty at or below your skill level can be found • +15% Weakspot Damage |
 Science!
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The Science skill increases your maximum Gadget Energy, allowing you to use gadgets like Tactical Time Dilation. Investing in the Science! skill allows you to select perks that further improve your gadgets and potency with shock weapons.
• +7 Gadget Energy Meter Max • +10% more stacks of non-Physical Damage Type side-effects |
 Sneak
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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.
• +35% Sneak Attack Damage • -2% NPC Awareness Detection Rate |
 Speech
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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.
• Speech Checks with a difficulty at or below your skill level can be selected • +5% Damage to Humans |
How to Increase Skills
Specialize in Skills During Character Creation
When you first make your character, you are allowed to Specialize in two skills (three with the Brilliant Trait). Specialized skills immediately receive two skill points, give you a head start with said skill.
Level Up
Whenever you level up, you receive two skill points that you can use to improve any of your skills. The only exception is if you have the Dumb Trait, which prevents you from leveling five skills of your choosing.
XP Farming Guide: How to Level Up Fast
Skills Explained
Attributes That Define Your Character
Skills in The Outer Worlds 2 determine how effective your character is in different situations such as combat, persuasion, hacking, and exploration.
Each skill provides bonuses and unlocks new interactions, allowing you to customize your playstyle in multiple ways.
Best Skills
Max Level Gives 60 Skill Points
The game gives you a total of 60 skill points at the current maximum level, which is Level 30, allowing you to invest in other skills other than your specialized ones.
Level Cap: What is the Max Level?
All 12 Skills Can be Acquired
You are able to acquire all 12 skills in the game in a regular playtthrough, despite the specialization you were given earlier. You can distribute some of these skill points freely should you choose.
Having Dumb Trait Limits Skill Investment
If you equip Dumb as a negative trait, you will have 5 skills limited to your choosing at the start of the game. Note that the benefits and disadvantages of this will vary depending on your priorities when progressing.
Skills Unlock Perks
Investing in specific skills also unlocks Perks, which grant passive bonuses and special effects that further enhance your playstyle.
List of All Perks
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