Similar to other role-playing games, Atomic Heart features a variety of skills that can enhance your character’s abilities and make them stronger. There are seven skill trees in total, each offering multiple abilities that can significantly alter your gameplay experience. In this guide, we will delve into each skill tree in detail. Let’s get started!
List of Skills in Atomic Heart
Here is a list of all the skills under each skill tree.
Shok
- Shok is an electromagnetic attack.
- It is capable of disabling Dandelion and Pchela’s cameras.
- Robots, including bosses, are vulnerable to the attack.
- Shok can also be used 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 mixed type skill tree which includes passive skills that are not linked to a specific ability.
- These skills can help increase inventory space, maximum health, among other things.
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 freezing attacks.
- The first ability is Cryo Jet which can freeze enemies.
- The rest of the abilities improve the effectiveness of freezing attack across various stats.
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 allows you to raise nearby enemies and hold them in mid-air.
- With the Forced Fall Acceleration upgrade, you can slam enemies to the ground and deal heavy damage.
- Additional upgrades to this ability improve its effectiveness, such as increasing the damage output or reducing energy cost.
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.
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.
Here is 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. 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 employ a skill, you must first install it. All established abilities are identified by a hexagonal shape located at the lower-left portion of the display. The square nodes are seen as enhancements that augment the usefulness and efficacy of the pre-installed skills. At any given time, you can only have two active skills. If you wish to utilize other skills, you must swap them with those that are already active.
How to max out the skills in Atomic Heart
Each skill in Atomic Heart is equipped with a range of enhancements, bonuses, and improvements. To fully upgrade a skill, you need to gather Polymers and utilize them to unlock all the individual nodes one by one. Keep in mind that some upgrades require that you first unlock a prerequisite ability before gaining access to the next upgrade, so strategize accordingly.