Undawn's Skills: Choose Two, Choose Wisely

Every character in Undawn has to master a range of different abilities. To make that easier we've put a Skills system in place. Your skills will affect your combat style. But more importantly, adjusting your skills loadout will help you and your teammates tackle the ever-tougher challenges you face. So, what does this all look like?

**Regular Skills**

There are three types of regular skills: throwing skills, device skills and passive skills. Throwing skills are mostly used with the various types of grenades you'll find in-game. You can only have one throwing skill active at a time. Device skills are used with landmines, healing devices and turrets. Again, only one device skill can be active at a time. Passive skills have a wide range of ongoing effects, such as boosting a stat or allowing extra actions. You might get more energy, or be able to slide, for example.

The three types of regular skills can be upgraded with talent points, which you can get from almost anywhere: Road of Raven's Hold Position and Stronghold challenges, daily missions such as Settlement Missions and Stronghold Patrols, and so on. But watch out—although there's no limit to how many talent points you can acquire, it's not currently possible to reallocate them once spent on regular skills.

That means you'll want to allocate talent points in a way that suits your style of play.

**Expertise Skills**

These are an entirely new feature which unlocks at Lv. 30 and allow you to completely change the focus of your character. There are various Expertise fields: Explosives, Assault and Support, among others. Only one can be active at a time. Each is associated with a particular heavy weapon, which can only be used when the Expertise is active: The Gatling gun for Assault, the grenade launcher for Explosives, and so on.

Each Expertise field has a range of passive skills, most of which influence the effects of the associated heavy weapon. Some passive skills also provide other benefits. It's worth noting that Expertise passive skills have level restrictions. There are, conveniently, no conditions on upgrading Expertise skills once these restrictions are met.

**Camp Training**

Camp Training is a set of passive skills offering overall stat improvements for your character. For example, the first in the list—Barrens Hunter—gives a percentage boost to damage against zombies, fiends and animals. Camp Training can also provide special bonuses, such as intensity resistance and critical hit damage.

But when it comes to upgrading, these skills are different to those we looked at earlier. For a start, you need to be at camp to upgrade Camp Training skills. And you'll need a particular resource—Camp Contribution—which you can only obtain during camp events. And finally, Camp Training skills become even more valuable later in the game.

**Conclusion**

Overall, the skills system is simple and easy to use, but provides plenty of depth—and with so many skills to choose from, finding the two best suited to you might take a little time. You'll need to visit the various environments found within the game and, bit by bit, figure out what combat style works best for you. Taking your team's strengths and needs into account when setting up your skills will make things even more rewarding. So don't forget to make the most of your skills.