"Press Tab To Unlock Skill Point" In First Few Missions ?

[Hammir]

I purchased the game during the Steam Summer Sale. After playing through the first few missions and gaining experience I now have a message above my level progress bar that reads something to the affect that reads “Press Tab Unlock Action Skill.” Despite this message, when I access the Action Skill menu, I don't have enough skill points to unlock any action skills. Is this indeed the case? Although the message appears I sill need to gain additional levels before unlocking Action Skills and this message will remain until I gain enough levels to unlock my first Action Skill? Or am I missing something?

I will say that I have played previous titles and DLC in the series and I find the interface, menus, and inventory management in all of the games frustrating. An interface should be intuitive, and not have to be learned. There have been many times when I have clicked a button or item in the inventory to discover more information about it and instead of receiving additional info I purchased an item or applied a skill without an opportunity to confirm my selection. Arghhh......

Regardless, can anyone confirm the Skill Point prompt in the gameplay interface?

[Shinigami]

Your issue sounds strange, you may want to open a ticket with GBX.

Maybe you've got one of the issues with the screen display not showing your HUB correctly. What is your screen resolution?

You usually need to go to the skill menu, select a tree, and click the very first box at the very top of the tree to unlock it. The rest gives you an option to unlock the rest of the trees as you gain points.

[Linukas164]

Would help if you you would tell which character, but action skill is a thing, that must be taken from the very top of the skill tree and press E on it, and you would equip it. The other ones that require skill points are just simple skills

[Geldric™]

^^^^ That… all day long
Action skill unlocks at level 2, then at all the next levels (3,4,5,etc) you get 1 skill point to assign in whatever skill tree you want.

[Pikle_Rikk]

did you unlock the very first skill???? its on top of the skills screen. without that it wont let you purchase more.

[stiix]

Originally posted by Pikle_Rikk:

did you unlock the very first skill???? its on top of the skills screen. without that it wont let you purchase more.

That's what I was thinking. I got tripped up on that too and overlooked the very first Action skill to unlock.

[Hammir]

Thank you for all of the replies. I did figure it out after much frustration.

I picked my class through a mouse click that I though would provide more information, it did not. It selected the character that was currently highlighted. There was not confirmation; I wanted to rotate through - but no, it started the game! Whatever, I thought I would just discover what that class had to offer. Arghhh . . . . . .

As I said, I played, gained some levels - Well, apparently, before I could select a skill point, I needed to select a pet, which was related to my class? Was this specific to my class? I have no idea. In addition, I think the selection was drag and drop as opposed to clicking and and confirming. It could be a clickable interface, I have no idea! And, I don't know what my pet even does!

I eventually figured the interface out, at least enough to get started. I won't get in to specifics but drag and drop interface is awkward. So, I did pick a skill, I have no idea what it is or how it works. I have a pet too!

Man, I love the gunplay, story, graphics, and concept of this series but I do not like the interface. I feel like the menus and interface are metagame openworld exploration game simulation outside of the running and gunning! I am sure for some you this interface will be a easily interpreted, but for some reason I was flustered more so than the previous games in the series.

Thanks for all of the support, I do sincerely appreciate the assistance. Off to figure out what class I selected, what my pet does, and how to drop and drag the interface . . . . .

[Linukas164]

Originally posted by Hammir:

Thank you for all of the replies. I did figure it out after much frustration.

I picked my class through a mouse click that I though would provide more information, it did not. It selected the character that was currently highlighted. There was not confirmation; I wanted to rotate through - but no, it started the game! Whatever, I thought I would just discover what that class had to offer. Arghhh . . . . . .

As I said, I played, gained some levels - Well, apparently, before I could select a skill point, I needed to select a pet, which was related to my class? Was this specific to my class? I have no idea. In addition, I think the selection was drag and drop as opposed to clicking and and confirming. It could be a clickable interface, I have no idea! And, I don't know what my pet even does!

I eventually figured the interface out, at least enough to get started. I won't get in to specifics but drag and drop interface is awkward. So, I did pick a skill, I have no idea what it is or how it works. I have a pet too!

Man, I love the gunplay, story, graphics, and concept of this series but I do not like the interface. I feel like the menus and interface are metagame openworld exploration game simulation outside of the running and gunning! I am sure for some you this interface will be a easily interpreted, but for some reason I was flustered more so than the previous games in the series.

Thanks for all of the support, I do sincerely appreciate the assistance. Off to figure out what class I selected, what my pet does, and how to drop and drag the interface . . . . .

You should be able to select one action skill + one pet, so check on that, the menus can be tricky, but not too difficult once you get it. Good luck and have fun. Btw there are many classes and Fl4k is the only one where you can choose a pet and an action skill