Atomfall’sskills 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 toAtomfall’sskills 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 completingAtomfall’stutorial, 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 exploreAtomfalland 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
Atomfallhas 36 skills to invest in, many of which are locked behind Training Manuals. That said, here are some of the best you’re able to unlock early on:
Generally speaking, early-gameSurvival skillsare 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 theSt. Catherine’s Church questline.
Beyond this, the skills you unlock will depend entirely on your preferred playstyle. you may purchase aStealth Training Manualfrom 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, withThick Skinbeing a beneficial perk.
