TGMC:Skills
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Skills are boundaries that almost all mobs have, and they determine how you interact with most items in the game. Typically, the lower your skill in something is, the worse you are at using items of that nature and the higher your chance to fumble. Hard skill locks are rare, but include locks on the ability to use ChemDispensers, the Squad Leader chairs on the Alamo, and police equipment.
This page thoroughly defines each skill level.
Medical and Surgery Skills
Medical
As the name implies, this is your skill with Medical equipment. Changes a lot of values, such as splint health and defibrillator healing. Max Level: 5.
- With each level:
- Splint health increases.
- Kits heal more.
- Defibrillator heals more on shock.
- Syringe is faster. Use a hypospray anyway.
- Level 1 and lower:
- Fumble at all medical tasks. Level 1 shortens fumbling a little.
- With Level 0: No defibrillator healing, very low splint health.
- Level 2:
- Fumble removed for medical tasks (opening/closing defib, applying kits, etc).
- Weak splints, weak defibrillator healing.
- For example:
- The Synthetic has Medical 4, so he is typically able to defibrillate a dead human into hard crit from -220 if other parameters are met. His splints and kitting are also very effective.
- The Squad Corpsman, however, needs to heal humans more for a successful defibrillation, and his splints are weak.
Surgery
Your skill in surgery. A very linear skill. Max Level: 5.
- With each level:
- Surgery step time is reduced.
- Level 2 and under:
- Fumble when trying to do surgery
- Level 0, untrained: 20 second fumble time.
- Level 1, amateur: 12 second fumble time.
- Level 2, trained: 4 second fumble time.
- Level 3:
- No fumble during surgery.
- Further levels reduce surgery step time.
Engineering and Shipside Skills
Engineering
Measures your ability to do anything related to Engineering. Like repairing generators or APCs. Higher levels make you more effective. Max Level: 5.
- Level 0:
- Fumble when interacting with anything related to this. (wire cutting, any maintenance, etc)
- Detonation packs have a chance to explode immediately on deployment.
- Level 1:
- Can disassemble chairs.
- Metal barricade maintenance unlocked.
- Shield maintenance unlocked.
- Safe deployment of detonation packs unlocked.
- Level 2:
- Plasteel barricade maintenance unlocked.
- Can rig power cells like grenades, and safely stabilize them.
- Level 3:
- Most engineering actions unlocked (miner maintenance, APC maintenance, engine repair, etc)
- Level 4:
- Computer maintenance unlocked.
- Level 5:
- No difference.
Construction
Measures your ability to construct something. Includes barricade construction, wall building, etc. Higher levels unlock more. Max Level: 5.
- Level 0:
- Fumble when interacting with anything related to this.
- Level 1:
- Metal barricade construction and upgrades unlocked.
- Can build barbed wire (barricade defense, prevents climbing) and razor wire (normal defense, blocks off a tile, can trap xenos)
- Level 2:
- Plasteel barricade construction unlocked.
- Can build windows, reinforced windows, and windoors.
- Level 3:
- Wall (girder) building unlocked.
- Level 4:
- Airlock construction unlocked.
- Level 5:
- No difference.
Piloting
Determines whether you fumble when firing weapons in the Condor Jet.
- Only has one level, and it allows you to use weapons in the Condor Jet without fumble.
Combat Skills
Police
A measurement of your ability to use Police gear. This is typically applied to stun batons, flashes, pepper spray and tasers. Irrelevant after MP removal.
- Level 1:
- Removes accidental weapon discharge from shoving. Weapon discharging is broken anyway.
- Allows flash usage.
- Level 2:
- Allows all police gear usage.
- Stun batons still stun you if you pick them up without valid access.
CQC
A measurement of your close quarters combat ability. Higher makes you better in unarmed combat against humans.
- With each level:
- Increase max unarmed melee damage by 5.
- Increased shove chance by 5% per level. For example: the Synthetic has CQC 5, giving him a very high chance to floor someone on Disarm.
Note: Unarmed attacks have a chance to stun which scales with damage, so even though the damage may not be particularly high compared to melee weapons, it can give you a very respectable chance to stun someone with a bunch to the face.
Melee
A measurement of your combat ability with a melee weapon, obviously. Higher levels increase damage with a melee weapon.
- With each level:
- Increases melee damage by +15% per level.
- Negative levels can also decrease melee damage each level.
- Does not have a defined limit.
Large Vehicle
A measurement of your ability to use multitile vehicles. Only affects Mech piloting but used to affect the tank too.
- Only has one level, and it allows you to pilot a multitile vehicle.
Smartgun
A measurement of your smartgun training. Affects the SG-29, SG-62 and SG-85.
- Important Note:
- Stats will scale the same as Special Firearm Skills as this is technically a gun skill category in the game.
- Level 0:
- Default for the Squad Smartgunner.
- Normal stats with a Smartgun.
Firearms
Firearms skills can be divided between the actual firearm skill, and weapon class skills.
The firearm skill represents your general familiarity and competence with firearms more broadly. Having a Level 0 Firearms skill severely reduces your effectiveness with all firearms.
- Level 0:
- Default for non-combat roles
- Prevents most bonuses from having a higher weapon class skill
- No knowledge of tactical reloads
- +0.2 second wield times
- +0.3 second slower fire rate
- -15 accuracy
- +10 scatter
- +2 recoil
- Fire delay added to certain weapons
- Level 1:
- Default for all marine roles
- Allows weapon class skill bonuses to apply, if applicable
- Knowledge of tactical reloads
- Significant recoil reduction, making some wielded guns have no recoil
- Accuracy increased
- Level 2:
- Faster tactical reloads
Weapon class skills represent your competency with a specific class of weapons, such as rifles, or SMGs. You can check which category a gun fits into by checking its codex entry.
Special Firearm Skills
Special skills exist for Pistols, SMGs, Rifles, Shotguns, Smartguns and Heavy Weapons. These default at 0 for absolutely everyone, or 1 for special training.
These skills exist purely to provide buffs for having a higher skill level. Generally, these all scale with skill level unless otherwise mentioned.
- Level 0:
- Default for all normal roles
- Standard stats
- Level 1+ per level:
- -0.2 second wield time
- 5% extra damage
- +15 accuracy
- -2 scatter
- -2 recoil (This bonus scales into the negatives, unlike the others. Mainly relevant for Smartguns.)
Leadership
A very important skill. Measures your ability to lead, obviously. Can change fights, either through being used or not being used.
- With each level:
- Order strength increased. Default strength is leadership skill - 1
- Order range increased. Default range is your Leadership skill + 3
- Level 0:
- Default for all roles
- Long fumble for usage of leadership equipment
- Level 1:
- Default for Specialist roles (Smartgunner, Corpsman, Engineer)
- Fumbling time reduced
- Level 2:
- Orders unlocked. Range: 5
- For example:
- The Field Commander has the highest Leadership skill, making his orders typically the size of an entire field of view, and strong.
- A Squad Marine marked as the aSL, has weak and short-range orders.
Stamina
Represents your cardio, effecting stamina.
- With each level:
- Reduces the delay after using stamina, before stamina starts regenerating
- Regenerate stamina faster