Like most RPG games, Atomic Heart comes with a bunch of skills that you can use to augment your character and make him more powerful than ever. There are a total of 7 skill trees and each of them contain numerous abilities that drastically change the way you can play the game. Let’s discuss the skill tree in detail and how it can be used to enhance your playstyle.
List of Skills in Atomic Heart
After you walk up to a console, select the second option ‘Charles needs a tune-up’ to open up the skill tree. Here is a list of all the skills under each skill tree.
Shok
Shok is an electromagnetic attack capable of disabling Dandelion and Pchela’s cameras. Even robots are vulnerable to the attack, including the bosses. You can also use the ability to activate mechanisms. There are a total of 10 passive abilities/upgrades under the Shok skill and they are as follows:
- Powerful Electrization
- Neuro-Polymer Accelerator
- Resistor Malfunction
- Power Amplifier
- Electrization
- Shok
- Amplified Modulator
- Chain Lightning
- Extended Topology
- Full Contact
Character
These are miscellaneous skills that aren’t linked to a specific ability. The passives under this skill tree allow you to increase inventory space and maximum health, grants damage resistance, bonus dodges and more. Here is a list of all the 18 passives under this skill:
- Athlete
- Juggler
- Neural-Compression Tactical Backpack
- Extra Capacity Cluster Munitions
- Born Marksman
- Full House
- Parkour
- Nora’s Kiss
- Med Unit Upgrade
- Musclehead
- Photon Silk
- Wild Boar
- Second Wind
- Cell Division
- Sleazeball
- Morning Exercise
- Avatar
- Bulwark
Frostbite
The Frostbite skill tree unlocks a slew of freezing attacks. The first ability, Cryo Jet, lets you freeze enemies in their tracks. The rest of the abilities improve the effectiveness of the initial freezing attack in terms of damage and range. Here is a list of all 11 passives under this skill tree:
- Cryo Jet
- High Pressure
- Drastic Measure
- Forced Defrost
- Careful Disassembly
- Neuro-PolymerAccelerator
- Increased Polymer Generation
- Fire Extinguisher
- Intensive Spraying
- Diffure Spray Head
- Cryo Sleep
- Absolute Zero
Mass Telekinesis
The Mass Telekinesis ability lets you raise nearby enemies and suspend them in mid-air. After unlocking Forced Fall Acceleration, you’ll be able to slam enemies into the ground and deal significant damage. The rest of the abilities improve the effectiveness of this skill. While some passives buff the damage output, others reduce the energy cost needed to activate the skill. Here is a list of all 9 abilities under this skill:
- Amplified Modulator
- Forced Fall Acceleration
- Barotrauma
- Drastic Measure
- Increase Impact
- Increased Power
- Neuro-Polymer Accelerator
- Energy Vampire
- Polymeric Jet
Polymeric Jet
The skill lets you spray combat polymers, which can be manipulated by freeze, electric, and fire, to damage enemies. The list of all 8 abilities under this skill is mentioned below.
- High Pressure
- Environmental Resistance
- Neuo-Polymer Air Defense
- Increased Polymer Generation
- Increased Chemical Reactivity Distance
- Mixture Efficacy
- High Viscosity
- Neuro-Polymer Accelerator
Polymeric Shield
The Polymeric Shield reduces incoming damage and even redirects ranged projectiles back to the enemies. It’s helps you survive difficult situations, and the list of all 10 abilities under this skill is mentioned below:
- Overload and Stabilize
- Absorption Coefficient
- Sponge Effect
- Kinetic Reflector
- Neuro-Polymer Accelerator
- Kinetic Reflector Upgrade
- Reflective Surface
- Neuro-Polymer Reflector
- Increased Polymer Generation
- Med Unit Feedback
Energy Management
It’s a simple skill that lets you gain more energy via power cell upgrades. It even lets you consume less energy per shot, recycle lost health into energy, and more. The list of all 5 abilities are mentioned below.
- Energy Density
- Thrift
- Energy Containment
- ATP Recycling
- Greedy Guts
How do skills work in Atomic Heart
- To use a skill, you’ll have to install it first. All installed skills are indicated by a hexagonal shape at the lower left part of the screen.
- The square nodes are regarded as upgrades that improve the utility and effectiveness of the pre-installed skills.
- You can only have two active skills at a time. If you want to use other skills, you’ll have to replace them with the ones that are already active.
How to max out the skills in Atomic Heart
- Every skill comes with several abilities/buffs/upgrades. In order to max out a skill, you’ll have to farm Polymers and use it to unlock all the nodes one by one.
- Some upgrades have prerequisites. You’ll have to unlock an ability before it in order to get access to the next one, so plan carefully.