Wasteland 3 skills

* For skills in other *Wasteland* games, please see "Skill".

## Overview

The skills system has been overhauled for *Wasteland 3* to make it tighter and more focused. As your Rangers gain skill levels, they'll be able to craft more items, in addition to being more powerful.

## Combat skills

### Automatic Weapons

Makes you more effective with submachine guns and assault rifles. Recommended Attributes: Coordination, Awareness, Speed

### Big Guns

Makes you more effective with heavy machine guns, flamethrowers, and other oversized weapons. Recommended Attributes: Awareness, Coordination, Strength

### Brawling

Makes you more effective with fist-based weapons. Brawlers start out weak but have great potential at high levels. Recommended Attributes: Coordination, Intelligence, Charisma

### Melee Combat

Makes you more effective with bladed and blunt weapons. Recommended Attributes: Strength, Coordination, Speed

### Small Arms

Makes you more effective with handguns and shotguns. Recommended Attributes: Coordination, Luck, Awareness

### Sniper Rifles

Makes you more effective with sniper rifles. Recommended Attributes: Intelligence, Awareness, Luck

 Sniper rifle hit chance

## General skills

### Animal Whisperer

Allows you to tame friendly animals to follow you as pets, and temporarily tame hostile animals in combat (level 3 and above).

**Spirit Animal** is a party perk (picked once, affects all animals from all companions).

### Explosives

Allows you to deal more damage with explosives, defuse bombs, and avoid losing your digits when they go off.

### First Aid

Makes you more effective when using healing items and reviving squad members.

### Sneaky Shit

Makes it easier to disarm alarms, evade detection, spot hidden objects, and damage unaware enemies.

### Weird Science

Increases the damage you deal with unconventional types of weapons, and serves as a requirement for exotic, high-tech equipment.

## Exploration skills

### Armor Modding

Allows you to modify armor, granting it increased protection and additional benefits.

 Armor mod level

### Lockpicking

Allows you to open containers, doors, and other locked objects.

 Lock difficulty
 Safe difficulty

### Nerd Stuff

Allows you to use and hack computers, and turn hostile robots to your side.

### Mechanics

You can repair vehicles, generators and other machines more effectively. You also do more damage to mechanical foes.

### Survival

Improves your ability to avoid dangers on the World Map, and contend with hostile wildlife.

### Toaster Repair

Allows you to repair broken toasters.

 Toaster repair lvl.

### Weapon Modding

Allows you to modify your weapons, and strip them down for parts.

## Social skills

### Barter

Allows you to buy items for less, and sell them for more.

### Hard Ass

Allows you to intimidate others to do what you want and throw them off guard.

 Hard Ass lvl

### Kiss Ass

Allows you to sweet-talk information out of others and bring them to your way of thinking.

 Kiss Ass lvl

### Leadership

Inspires your nearby allies, and grants you abilities to command the battlefield.

## Behind the scenes

* For reference, the internal codes for skills are as follows. Crafting and Scavenging were intended to be a skill, but was never implemented.