Skills

Skills are abilities that are learned over time depending on the usage of a certain activity. This means if you shoot guns a lot, your Shooting skill increases, likewise if you mostly fight using melee weapons, your Fighting Skill increases.

There are 4 regular sets of skills. These are rated using stars from 1-7. Leveling up the stars provides stats bonuses, stats boosts, and extra abilities. Keep in mind that some Traits affect skill growth. Some characters even have unique skills that no one else have.

Skills directly affects the performance of a survivor, based upon star levels. Case in point, searching activities will be quicker using a character with good levels in wits. Another good example would be when reaching a certain level in Shooting and Fighting, which opts you to pick a Specialization. After selecting your Specialization of choice, you will gain a new xp bar. Finally, after reaching a particular level in the Specialization, new skills will be learned which helps greatly during gameplay.

The 4 most basic skills are the ff:

Cardio – affects stamina

Wits – affects gameplay such as searching, etc.

Fighting – affects combat stats

Shooting – affects gun combat

Personal Skills

Most of these skills are purely for cosmetic and comedic purposes. But some affect gameplay like “Bum Knee”, which prevents stamina recovery when crouching.

Acrobatics

Arts and Crafts

Asthma Attacks

Bludgeoning

Beer Pong

Born Leader

Bruiser

Bum Knee

Chemistry

Chronic Fatigue

Clerk

Construction

Counseling

Eagle-Eyed

Gossip

Hack and Slash

Hoarding

Leadership

Literature

Loved Books

Loved Hiking

Loved Literature

Loved Movies

Medicine

Natural Athlete

No Nonsense

Powerhouse

Preacher

Reality Show Trivia

Reflexes

Research

Sexting

Soldier

Sports Trivia

Strength

Surveying

Sudoku

Team Player