The Outer Worlds – Aptitudes Guide
Aptitudes Guide
First selected during the grapheme creation process, Aptitudes are best described every bit a permanent expression of your grapheme that render a minor bonus towards a detail attribute.
Aptitudes tin give notice non live changed ane time you lot direct maintain assigned them to your character, thence remember long together with difficult earlier you lot confirm them!
Every Attribute
Listed below are all fifteen Aptitudes that are available for you lot to select.
“No Discernible Aptitude”
- “Colonist” sounded similar a nice, entry-level career for a somebody of your skills. Expanding humanity’s attain past times civilizing the cosmic frontier was ambitious plenty without worrying almost your hateful solar daytime job. You had the ease of your life to determine how to live useful inwards Halcyon.
- +1 Determination Skill
Beverage Service Technician
- The Halcyon Colony needs practiced people, but it volition settle for ones who tin give notice mix a memorable drink. As a human cocktail shaker, you’ve made concoctions that could terminate wars or fuel skip drives. You’re yet trying to residue out the flavors of a genuinely signature Old Fashioned, though.
- +3% Drink Effect Duration
Bureaucrat, Rank 0
- The universe operates on laws, together with laws require paperwork. Halcyon is no exception. If something isn’t stamped, filed, un-filed, referenced, redacted, certified, indexed, together with numbered, thence it mightiness also non exist. Birth certificates included.
- +1 Block Skill
Cashier, Sub-Grade, Non-Supervisory
- No transaction is finished without a smile. You alive for the ka-chunk of a combat cartridge getting inserted right-side up, the redemption of loyalty points, together with the hope of a practiced day. “Come dorsum existent soon, buh cheerio now!” are to a greater extent than than empty words – they’re a hope together with a criterion you lot remember on carrying to the frontier.
- +1 Persuade Skill
Construction, Electrician Class, Wire Spooler
- Contrary to pop belief, cable management is an fine art form. Something almost hiding electrical wiring behind panels to maximize airflow but makes you lot sigh alongside relief. Colonists don’t demand to worry almost the bypasses together with workarounds that overstep away along the ability flowing. That’s your burden to shoulder.
- -3% Shock Damage Received
Elevator Operations Specialist
- A proper elevator goes upwardly AND down. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn’t agree to wearable the badge. Being a Specialist agency something where you lot come upwardly from – a commitment to upward together with downward mobility that doesn’t direct maintain a cost tag.
- +1 Engineering Skill
Factory Worker, Conveyor Operator
- Safety together with efficiency don’t ever acquire paw inwards hand, which is why thence many of your coworkers at the manufacturing industrial plant life were amputees. You survived the trenches of the assembly line long plenty to know when a hydraulic press but wants to pancake about fingers. Thankfully you lot managed to overstep away along all of yours.
- +1 Dodge Skill
Farmer, Dirt
- You got into this work organisation for the tubers, but you lot stayed for the ploughing, planting, pruning, together with plucking. It isn’t honest run if you lot come upwardly habitation clean. Worms demand dirt, together with nutrient needs worms. You’re but doing your role for the worms.
- -3% N-Ray Damage Received
Food Additive Tester
- Sometimes character command agency sampling a delicious boarst smoothie, but most of the fourth dimension it agency swallowing toxins until you lot detect ane that stays down. You honey a practiced surprise. Now that your tummy lining has the consistency of a broken-in saddle, it’s slowly to explore your culinary limits.
- +3% Food Effect Duration
Janitor, Sanitation Class
- You pass your evenings kneeling over ominous stains alongside a bottle of caustic solvent together with an absorbent rag. How the blood got at that topographic point is irrelevant, higher upwardly your pay grade, together with beneath your interest. You’re an creative somebody of erasure. When you’re on the job, there’s no line to live found.
- -3% Corrosive Damage Received
Tossball Team Mascot
- There isn’t a work inwards all the cosmos that squad spirit together with a big stick couldn’t solve together. Your final major caput injury inwards the plain knocked about extra cheer into you, together with you’ve been a rising star inwards tossball’s competitive mascot nutrient chain ever since. It doesn’t thing that no ane knows your human face upwardly nether the mask. You portion glory alongside the team.
- +1 Inspiration Skill
Medical Technician, Junior Grade
- Prior to leaving Earth, you lot earned the trust of the medical community’s most esteemed junior surgeons, who entrusted you lot alongside stuffing cotton wool balls into pill bottles. Experience on the project made you lot realize that diagnosing affliction doesn’t direct maintain a formal didactics when a search terminal together with a footling imagination volition do the trick.
- +1 Medical Skill
Safety Inspector
- In your line of work, the corporation’s bottom line needs to a greater extent than protection than its personnel. Guardrails aren’t free, thermal shielding needs replacing, together with a hatch that seals reliably is a luxury. You’re on the vanguard of ensuring that every possible expense is spared, since corners don’t cutting themselves (yet). You prefer to remember of workplace accidents every bit happy footling coincidences.
- -3% Plasma Damage Received
Scientist Assistant, Level 0, Class A
- You’ve cleaned out plenty examination tubes to railroad train a peachy instinct for what goes inwards them together with why. Maybe you lot didn’t arrive this work organisation to mop upwardly the leavings of failed experiments, but that’s but role of the job. Even if you lot can’t unsee what happens inwards the lab, you lot tin give notice at to the lowest degree acquire from the mistakes together with bask about colorful nightmares.
- +1 Science Skill
Sub Sous Chef
- The hierarchy of a modern kitchen is a ladder of many rungs. Your role every bit assistant to the instant deputy chef’s assist is ane of middling distinction, but you lot are honored to pour your middle into the ritual emptying of grease pans together with the backbreaking labor of gravy restoration. You’re belongings out for that advancement to poultry inspection, which is due whatever yr now.
- +1 One-handed Melee
