User:Neocloudy/Skills

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Skills are boundaries every human has, and they determine how you interact with most items in the game. Typically, the lower you are, the less you can do without fumbling/the worse you are with something. Hard locks are rare, and only apply to chem dispensers or police equipment.

This page thoroughly defines each skill level.

More information about skills

Example Skills
Medical	5/5
Surgery	5/5
Engineering	5/5
Construction	5/5
Police	2/2
Powerloader	4/4
Leadership	4/4
CQC	5
Smartgun	2
Melee	1
Firearms	2
Stamina	0

Medical and Surgery Skills

Medical

As the name implies, this is your skill with Medical equipment. Changes a lot of values, such as splint health and defibrillator healing. Max Level: 5.

• With each level:
  • Splint health increases.
  • Kits heal more.
  • Defibrillator heals more on shock.
  • Syringe is faster. Use a hypospray anyway.

• Level 1 and lower:
  • Fumble at all medical tasks. Level 1 shortens fumbling a little.
  • With Level 0: No defibrillator healing, very low splint health.
• Level 2:
  • Fumble removed for medical tasks (opening/closing defib, applying kits, etc).
  • Weak splints, weak defibrillator healing.
• For example:
  • The Synthetic has Medical 4, so he is typically able to defibrillate a dead human into hard crit from -220 if other parameters are met. His splints and kitting are also very effective.
  • The Squad Corpsman, however, needs to heal humans more for a successful defibrillation, and his splints are weak.

Surgery

Your skill in surgery. A very linear skill. Max Level: 5.

• With each level:
  • Surgery step time is reduced.

• Level 2 and under:
  • Fumble when trying to do surgery
  • Level 0, untrained: 20 second fumble time.
  • Level 1, amateur: 12 second fumble time.
  • Level 2, trained: 4 second fumble time.
• Level 3:
  • No fumble during surgery.
  • Further levels reduce surgery step time.

Engineering and Shipside Skills

Engineering

Measures your ability to do anything related to Engineering. Like repairing generators or APCs. Higher levels make you more effective. Max Level: 5.

• Level 0:
  • Fumble when interacting with anything related to this. (wire cutting, any maintenance, etc)
  • Detonation packs have a chance to explode immediately on deployment.
• Level 1:
  • Can disassemble chairs.
  • Metal barricade maintenance unlocked.
  • Shield maintenance unlocked.
  • Safe deployment of detonation packs unlocked.
• Level 2:
  • Plasteel barricade maintenance unlocked.
  • Can rig power cells like grenades, and safely stabilize them.
• Level 3:
  • Most engineering actions unlocked (miner maintenance, APC maintenance, engine repair, etc)
• Level 4:
  • Computer maintenance unlocked.
• Level 5:
  • No difference.

Construction

Measures your ability to construct something. Includes barricade construction, wall building, etc. Higher levels unlock more. Max Level: 5.

• Level 0:
  • Fumble when interacting with anything related to this.
• Level 1:
  • Metal barricade construction unlocked.
  • Can build barbed wire (barricade defense, prevents climbing) and razor wire (normal defense, blocks off a tile, can trap xenos)
• Level 2:
  • Plasteel barricade construction unlocked.
  • Can build windows, reinforced windows, and windoors.
• Level 3:
  • Wall (girder) building unlocked.
• Level 4:
  • Airlock construction unlocked.
• Level 5:
  • No difference.

Piloting

Determines whether you fumble when firing weapons in the Condor Jet.

• Only has one level, and it allows you to use weapons in the Condor Jet without fumble.

Combat Skills

Police

A measurement of your ability to use Police gear. This is typically applied to stun batons, flashes, pepper spray and tasers. Irrelevant after MP removal.

• Level 1:
  • Removes accidental weapon discharge from shoving. Weapon discharging is broken anyway.
  • Allows flash usage.
• Level 2:
  • Allows all police gear usage.
  • Stun batons still stun you if you pick them up without valid access.

CQC

A measurement of your close quarters combat ability. Higher makes you better in unarmed combat against humans.

• With each level:
  • Increased shove chance by 5% per level. For example: the Synthetic has CQC 5, giving him a very high chance to floor someone on Disarm.

Melee

A measurement of your combat ability with a melee weapon, obviously. Higher levels increase damage with a melee weapon.

• With each level:
  • Increases melee damage by +15% per level.
• Does not have a defined limit.

Large Vehicle

A measurement of your ability to use multitile vehicles. Only affects Mech piloting but used to affect the tank too.

• Only has one level, and it allows you to pilot a multitile vehicle.

Smartgun

A measurement of your smartgun training. Higher levels change recoil and accuracy with the smartgun.

• Level -4:
  • Default for all squad roles except Smartgunner.
  • Significant recoil.
• Level 0:
  • Default for the Squad Smartgunner.
  • No recoil, normal accuracy with a Smartgun.

Firearms

Your general ability to use a firearm (also for special types of firearms).

Special skills exist for Pistols, SMGs, Rifles, Shotguns and Heavy Weapons. These default at 0 for absolutely everyone, or 1 for special training. These give a +5% damage mod for the specific type of gun.

• Level 0:
  • Low accuracy.
  • Default recoil for all guns, which means some may have light recoil, even when wielded.
  • No knowledge of tactical reloads.
• Level 1:
  • Default for all marine roles.
  • Knowledge of tactical reloads.
  • Significant recoil reduction, making some wielded guns have no recoil.
  • Accuracy increased.
• Higher levels increase accuracy and decrease recoil.

Leadership

A very important skill. Measures your ability to lead, obviously. Can change fights, either through being used or not being used.

• With each level:
  • Order efficiency increased.
  • Order range increased. Default range is 3 + your Leadership skill.
• Level 0:
  • Default for all roles.
  • Long fumble for usage of leadership equipment.
• Level 1:
  • Default for Specialist roles (Smartgunner, Corpsman, Engineer)
  • Fumbling time reduced.
• Level 2:
  • Orders unlocked. Range: 5.
• For example:
  • The Field Commander has the highest Leadership skill, making his orders typically the size of an entire field of view, and strong.
  • A Squad Marine marked as the aSL, has weak and short-range orders.

Stamina

Mostly unused, planned to be used in HvH gamemodes such as Campaign. You do cardio, right?

• With each level:
  • Reduces the delay before you regenerate stamina again.
  • Regenerate more stamina.