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Devlog: Skills

Hi, everyone! Today we’re going to tell you a bit about character’s skills and how to improve them through the journey.



Your crewmembers are capable individuals, who are able to handle both wilderness and ancient ruins. Each of them has a set of skills, that will play a big role in global map events:
  • Athletics is a essential for traversing harsh environments, such as big eastern desert. It will let you travel long distances without getting exhausted, climb mountains or outrun a stronger enemy.
  • Persuasion covers all social situations and helps your character to convince, deceive or intimidate other people.
  • Stealth helps you go unnoticed, which is really useful if you don’t want to get bitten, stabbed or shot in a fight. Stealth may involve hiding, sneaking around or even smuggling ancient artefacts.
  • Investigation helps you find whatever you want. Every time you're looting a place for valuables, searching for something or trying to understand the situation this skill comes into play.
  • Knowledge lets you know all sorts of stuff about survival. Want to distinct edible and poisonous mushrooms? Want to deactivate a Steel Guardian? Want to figure out if a beast is aggressive or just playful? Upgrade this skill.




Talking about upgrades, there are two ways to improve your skills: training and failure.
You can learn from other people’s mistakes by paying for training courses: find a competent person, pay them and get better at a chosen discipline. Or you can go “cheap” way and learn from your own mistakes: every time a character fails to use one of their skills, they become better at it! You just have to survive in the process.

Stay alert in the desert and we’ll meet again!

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