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Complete Atomfall skill guide: All skills, how to upgrade, and more
Atomfall's skills can drastically change how you play, especially if you invest your points into a particular path. If you like being stealthy, there are several options for you. If you're more interested in running into groups while swinging a baseball bat around, you'll have plenty of choices there, too. However, there's more to Atomfall's skills than just gaining experience points and advancing down a skill tree. You'll need to pick up Training Stimulants and Manuals to unlock new abilities, forcing you to be selective with your choices throughout your playthrough. Table of contents How to unlock skills in Atomfall How to find Training Stimulants in Atomfall How to find Training Manuals in Atomfall Best skills to unlock in Atomfall How to unlock skills in Atomfall After completing Atomfall's tutorial, you'll find your skill menu by opening your backpack and scrolling over to Skills. At first, you'll only have three skills available in four skill trees—Ranged Combat, Melee Combat, Survival, and Conditioning—but you'll unlock more using Training Manuals. Screenshot by Destructoid There's a catch, though. Rather than using a standard EXP and skill progression system, you'll instead need Training Stimulants. While some skills require only one, others use up to five or six, making these a necessary resource to look out for as you explore the world. How to find Training Stimulants in Atomfall Screenshot by Destructoid You'll find Training Stimulants as you explore Atomfall and complete its quests. While some are available in crates within various POIs, others will sit right on countertops in regions like Wyndham Village and Slatten Dale. More often than not, you'll find them accidentally as you progress through the main story or as rewards for completing Lead objectives. How to find Training Manuals in Atomfall The second part of upgrading your skills is obtaining Training Manuals. Training Manuals are the key to unlocking specialized skills beyond your starting 12. Since they're specialized, you'll find manuals ranging from Stealth to Crafting and Firearms Mastery books. Screenshot by Destructoid Every book has unique spawn locations, from being available to purchase from merchants to sitting on top of crates in random caves. Others—like the Crafting Manual—are only accessible if you pick the correct dialogue in quest conversations or eliminate NPCs that hold them. Best skills to unlock in Atomfall Atomfall has 36 skills to invest in, many of which are locked behind Training Manuals. That said, here are some of the best you can unlock early on: Disarm Traps Charisma Deep Pockets Gunsmith Generally speaking, early-game Survival skills are your best bet initially, as they let you disarm traps around the map, improve your selling prices with merchants, and let you upgrade your guns. Deep Pockets also increases your crafting material and ammo carrying capacity, making it an all-around helpful buff. However, Deep Pockets and Gunsmith requires obtaining the Crafting training manual from Morris Wick in Wyndham Village during the St. Catherine's Church questline. Beyond this, the skills you unlock will depend entirely on your preferred playstyle. You can purchase a Stealth Training Manual from Molly Jowett in Slatten Dale, unlocking skills that reduce the noise of your footsteps and takedowns alongside inflicting more damage with stealth kills. Similarly, if you prefer melee combat above all else, you'll have three melee options to pick from initially, with Thick Skin being a beneficial perk. The post Complete Atomfall skill guide: All skills, how to upgrade, and more appeared first on Destructoid.
Atomfall's skills can drastically change how you play, especially if you invest your points into a particular path. If you like being stealthy, there are several options for you. If you're more interested in running into groups while swinging a baseball bat around, you'll have plenty of choices there, too.
However, there's more to Atomfall's skills than just gaining experience points and advancing down a skill tree. You'll need to pick up Training Stimulants and Manuals to unlock new abilities, forcing you to be selective with your choices throughout your playthrough.
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How to unlock skills in Atomfall
After completing Atomfall's tutorial, you'll find your skill menu by opening your backpack and scrolling over to Skills. At first, you'll only have three skills available in four skill trees—Ranged Combat, Melee Combat, Survival, and Conditioning—but you'll unlock more using Training Manuals.
There's a catch, though. Rather than using a standard EXP and skill progression system, you'll instead need Training Stimulants. While some skills require only one, others use up to five or six, making these a necessary resource to look out for as you explore the world.
How to find Training Stimulants in Atomfall
You'll find Training Stimulants as you explore Atomfall and complete its quests. While some are available in crates within various POIs, others will sit right on countertops in regions like Wyndham Village and Slatten Dale. More often than not, you'll find them accidentally as you progress through the main story or as rewards for completing Lead objectives.
How to find Training Manuals in Atomfall
The second part of upgrading your skills is obtaining Training Manuals. Training Manuals are the key to unlocking specialized skills beyond your starting 12. Since they're specialized, you'll find manuals ranging from Stealth to Crafting and Firearms Mastery books.
Every book has unique spawn locations, from being available to purchase from merchants to sitting on top of crates in random caves. Others—like the Crafting Manual—are only accessible if you pick the correct dialogue in quest conversations or eliminate NPCs that hold them.
Best skills to unlock in Atomfall
Atomfall has 36 skills to invest in, many of which are locked behind Training Manuals. That said, here are some of the best you can unlock early on:
- Disarm Traps
- Charisma
- Deep Pockets
- Gunsmith
Generally speaking, early-game Survival skills are your best bet initially, as they let you disarm traps around the map, improve your selling prices with merchants, and let you upgrade your guns. Deep Pockets also increases your crafting material and ammo carrying capacity, making it an all-around helpful buff. However, Deep Pockets and Gunsmith requires obtaining the Crafting training manual from Morris Wick in Wyndham Village during the St. Catherine's Church questline.
Beyond this, the skills you unlock will depend entirely on your preferred playstyle. You can purchase a Stealth Training Manual from Molly Jowett in Slatten Dale, unlocking skills that reduce the noise of your footsteps and takedowns alongside inflicting more damage with stealth kills. Similarly, if you prefer melee combat above all else, you'll have three melee options to pick from initially, with Thick Skin being a beneficial perk.
The post Complete Atomfall skill guide: All skills, how to upgrade, and more appeared first on Destructoid.
