Survival Vision can be used to display nearby clues and objects you can interact with like containers, doors, trunks, etc. It’s recommended to use this feature often since it can Reveal a lot of things that you won’t notice immediately. Using Survival Vision doesn’t cost anything so use it as often as you want.
The Survival skill tree allows you to learn skills that can increase the range of this ability, display items longer, and best of all, outline enemies even when they’re behind cover.
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