All The Outer Worlds 2 skills explained

What are The Outer World 2 skills? To adjust your playstyle and tweak your build, you can invest skill points into 12 different skills to thoroughly change the way you approach each situation.

Though skills have been condensed in The Outer Worlds 2, what's on offer is much more impactful this time - gone are the days of putting loads of points into individual weapon types. You can use skills in the RPG game to further your build to complement The Outer Worlds 2 traits, changing how you interact with the world or attack combat.

Here's a list of all The Outer Worlds 2 skills:

• 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

Now that you're caught up on The Outer Worlds 2 skills, here's what to expect from The Outer Worlds 2 release date, every companion you can recruit, and which faction they are a part of.