Summary
The British countryside that can be explored inAtomfallhas no shortage of charm, beauty, and danger for players to explore and encounter, and there are plenty of weapons and pickups that make the journey easier and more exciting. Players have a decent amount of choice in what they can choose for their loadouts, both in the fighting and character departments.
Along with their weaponry and healing items, players have access to a wide set of skills that can be unlocked that change how they interact with the world, making the whole experience more immersive with each upgrade. Whether combat is the focus or some added survivability, each set is full of unique and powerful buffs that help with all manner of challenges across the world. For those unsure about what’s right for them, here are thebest skills to unlock inAtomfall.
8Deep Pockets
Keep The Restocks Coming
Thorough looting is not only a good strategy; it’s a necessity when traversing the world ofAtomfall. Ammo, consumables, anda few secrets are scattered across the mapand are just waiting to be collected by the player. With so much to grab, having limited space can be quite troublesome, forcing some items to be left behind.
Deep pockets solves that issue, having a simple utility function that raises the quantity of all crafting supplies and ammo types that can be carried, alleviating the need to use some items in order to collect others. Having this skill allows the player continues on adventuring for far longer without needing to return to a merchant for more heals and ammo.
7Charisma
An Absolute Bargain
The trading mechanic inAtomfallis great. In other RPGs, a charisma mechanic might lower the cost of items in terms of gold value. Here, however, the player physically tips a scale in their favor or in the seller’s favor in order to negotiate a fair price for both parties.
This normally results in a pistol being traded for a pistol and so forth, but with the Charisma skill, players can quite easily grab a few extra pieces of ammo or some much-needed crafting materials, along with whatever item they choose to trade away. It’s not the most powerful perk, but it provides a nice boost to sales and brings quite a lot of value over a playthrough.
6Quiet Movement
As Silent As The Wind
Stealth is a pretty large part ofAtomfalland isa useful means of moving around dangerous campsand avoiding confrontations with large groups of enemies. It can lead to some elaborate spy missions into restricted areas, or players can use it to simply take the pacifist route by dodging combat at every turn.
Quiet Movement adds an extra level of strength to sneaking, letting players tip-toe around with much more freedom and less fear that they will be detected. It opens up so many doors for some quick looting and daring escapes. It also makes takedowns a lot stronger, as it is way easier to kill an enemy from behind when they don’t know what’s coming.
5Disarm Traps
No More Surprise Explosions
Throughout the rolling hills and valleys ofAtomfall, there are countless tripwires and traps dotted around to deter and detect the player when they enter areas or cross paths that the locals would rather keep to themselves. The ability to disarm them is incredibly valuable. At some parts of the game, it is impossible to cross into a room without triggering a trap, so being able to take them apart on the fly makes getting around unscathed a whole lot easier.
It even comes with the added bonus of some extra supplies, which means that, while looting and scavenging outposts for resources, any sneaky traps laid to ruin a trespasser’s day can be removed entirely and turned into useful materials for crafting consumables or even throwable weapons.
4Draw Speed
Legolas In The Lake District
Not too far into the game,Atomfallplayers canadd a bow and arrow to their arsenal. Doing so provides a fun and powerful way of taking out enemies from afar and comes with the added bonus of reducing detectability when compared to bullet shots. However, bows come with their own drawback: The long reload time between each arrow makes them hard-to-use against enemies up close or in greater numbers.
Being able to draw the arrows faster basically transforms the bows from slow, clunky pieces of wood into viable assault weapons that can quite easily take down multiple enemies in quick succession. The fire rate is never going to compete with an SMG, of course, but it is a fun option to try out and certainly a powerful one at that.
3Gunsmith
Some Serious Heavy Firepower
Upgrading weapons is an important part of progression in many games. InAtomfall, while the player can’t augment a large range of specific stats,they are able to upgrade their weaponsto several tiers, ranging from rusty to pristine and adding some extra firepower and accuracy along the way.
Each time a weapon jumps a tier, the difference is noticeable, with several enemies taking fewer shots and more bullets connecting at range thanks to the higher accuracy. It’s a useful skill to pickup, as it fits several different playstyles and weapon types without tying the player down to a single weapon-type buff.
2Quiet Takedown
Assuming everything is quiet, and the kill can be clean, takedowns are a great way to conserve ammo and deal with threats who wander off by themselves. But despite being fantastic for taking down enemies, doing so does create a decent amount of noise, meaning that any nearby enemies will come rushing over to figure out what the commotion was.
Making takedowns much quieter adds even more power to the already strong stealth mechanic, letting the player rampage through an outpost of enemies and picking them off one-by-one while ensuring that the rest are none the wiser. And with so much ammo to spare, players won’t have to worry about running on when fighting sometrickier opponents like the BARD botsthat are scattered around the map.
1Firearms Focus
Take A Breath And Fire
Guns are a player’s best friend when taking on the countless enemies taking post on the hills and bunkers around the quarantine zone. By giving a straight buff to all weapons (assuming that the user has a low heart rate), the damage output becomes pretty significant, turning most, if not all weapons into one-shot headshotters and providing them with even more DPS against higher HP targets.
The stamina mechanic is pretty easy to manage, andkeeping a low heart rateis as simple as walking away from an encounter, which means that players can enter a fight and deal serious damage, then back out to let the rate go down, only to return with the same power they started with. It’s a great skill for anyAtomfallplaythrough and one that should be sought out as soon as possible.
