Forge Your Raider
Master the three skill trees and optimize your abilities to dominate the surface.
Character Progression Overview
As you scavenge and survive, you'll collect items to craft, upgrade your gear, and enhance your character's inherent skills. These improvements are vital for facing increasingly dangerous threats.
The Three Skill Trees
⚡ Conditioning
Focus: Improves your Raider's physical prowess, including stamina, carrying capacity, weapon handling, and combat proficiencies.
Notable Skills:
- Youthful Lungs: Increase your max stamina (Major skill, up to 5 points)
- Proper Breathing: Your stamina regenerates faster (Up to 5 points)
- Stubborn Mule: Your stamina regeneration is less affected by being over-encumbered (Up to 5 points)
- Used To The Weight: Wearing a shield doesn't slow you down as much (Up to 5 points)
- Three Deep Breaths: After an ability drains your stamina, you recover more quickly (Up to 5 points)
- Good As New: While under a healing effect, stamina regeneration is increased (Major skill)
Benefit: Carry more valuable loot, maintain stamina during intense combat, and optimize your physical capabilities.
🏃 Mobility
Focus: Boosts your movement speed, agility, and efficiency in traversing the environment and dodging threats.
Notable Skills:
- Pep In Your Step: Increase your default movement speed (Major skill, up to 5 points)
- Run Forest Run: While sprinting, you move faster (Up to 5 points)
- Gym Addict: When entering the raid, you spawn with more stamina (Up to 5 points)
- Long Distance Runner: Sprinting consumes less stamina (Up to 5 points)
- Hare: You're faster while crouched (Major skill)
Benefit: Outmaneuver enemies, quickly reposition during combat, escape dangerous situations, and efficiently navigate complex maps.
❤️ Survival
Focus: Enhances your Raider's durability, health regeneration, resistance to damage, and overall survivability.
Notable Skills:
- Thick Skin: Increase your maximum health (Major skill, up to 5 points)
- Fast Metabolism: Your health regenerates faster (Up to 5 points)
- No Time To Bleed: When healing, the duration of the effect is longer (Up to 5 points)
- Medicinal Knowledge: When you heal, the effect is more potent (Up to 5 points)
- Toughness: You resist being downed for longer (Major skill)
Benefit: Become a tougher combatant, capable of enduring more punishment, recovering faster from damage, and surviving encounters that would eliminate less prepared Raiders.
Coming Soon: Interactive Build Planner!
Interactive skill tree planner with full prerequisite chains, optimal build recommendations, and the ability to save and share your custom builds with the community!