Best Skills?

[Daniel]

So which skills do you think are the best? I can't comment on the late game, but in the early game Defense Repair is very good as it provides consistent healing source. The Double Jump seem to be important as well.

[phoagne]

25% chance for a second item in the survival mode is a real must-have.

[Necro]

the luck skill (nakamura second row) is ESSENTIAL, chance for a alarm box to drop 50% more cubes is must have. AVOID conservation as it doesn't work.

[drugoj_chelovek]

Тут игра как 2 пяточка похожа на унепик, тут скила ни кокого нет просто поиграйте в унепик и поймете как все сложное было простым.

[SundownKid]

Essential: Makes the game significantly easier
Useful: Makes the game slightly easier

Chassis skills:

Essential: Double jump
Useful: Titanium hull, Aluminum hull, PVC Hull (in that order), Dash

Boogan skills:

Essential: None
Useful: Item mastery (but it only works if you have 2 and only 2 of each, so you need the repair combiner)
Questionably useful: Core plating, Battle visor, Energy potential

Jacker skills:

Essential: Hello World, all of the skills that damage or replace robots in alarm sequences or add allies
Useful: Alarm Fail

Jacker has some of the most useful skills in the game, since he is your main source of income and is instrumental in a certain late game part... also every skill you get lowers the alarm time letting you make even more money.

Ghost skills:

Essential: Haste, Urgency
Useful: None

Nakamura skills:

Essential: Luck, Material saving, Repair kits
Useful: Defense Repair, Pricing optimization

Nakamura has the 2nd most useful skills in the game and also has a decent bonus for getting a lot of skills.

[spectrefps]

Nice tips! I wound up picking a bunch that were suggested here before I saw this post. Good to know they were solid choices.

[Oretachi]

Double jump is the fastest and most important.

[Fluffiest Princess]

Anything that boosts cube gain is super-important.

I found Jacker's "hack robots" and "hack turrets" skills were a bit weak. 90% of the time I'd end up killing the robot while Jacker was hacking it, and once hacked, it would generally just die instantly. It's far better to get Crash and Burn or Glitch in the Matrix to just kill robots from the start. We Are Legion is incredible, though.

The double jump is one of the most useful skills in the game. Haste doesn't seem good on paper, but you spend so long drifting around in ghost form that it will save you a huge amount of time overall. I waited ages to get it and feel very silly.

I like Boogan's "healing items", because with the regeneration splitter you can just have hundreds of Regen 10s that are actually Regen 30s. Takes a while to get though.