Barotrauma - Security talents, crafting tree and guide

This guide will go over all Security class primary responsibilities, Security skill trees, talent usefulness, crafting tree visualizations, and mathematical theoreticals for specific talents.

‎Introduction

The guide below provides an overview for the Security talents, their viability, as well as mathematical and crafting visualizations for your ease of use - updated as of 1.8.7.0 (April 16th, 2025).

You will find the following features in the guide:
• Analysis and viability of Security skill trees.
• Potential talents to avoid.
• Crafting visualizations for Security related armaments

The Security officer is a highly versatile class, offering great defensive, offensive and manufacturing capabilities - alongside its rather unique specializations, this class is a solid pick for any team, ranging from duo campaigns to large submarine crews.

Primary responsibilities

• Operating Turrets.
  
• Repelling intruders, both human and animal
  
• Fabrication of Weapons and Ammunition.

Primary responsibilities

• Weapon logistics (fabricating and delivering submarine ammo to gun/shell racks) ensuring your crew is always restocked and armed with the best quality weapons
  
• Manufacturing explosives and restocking railgun shells & depth charges with appropriate explosives
  
• Communicating with the crew to ensure steady supply of ammunition crafting materials
  
• Maintaining order on the submarine by i) monitoring escort mission personnel for sabotage activity ii) checking multiplayer submarine players for sabotage equipment and illegal weapons iii) confiscating griefing equipment and neutralizing griefers
  
• Ensuring timely reloading of submarine guns

Passive talents - Tier 1

Passive talents - Tier 2

Specilization 1 - Frogman

This talent tree is for those who wish to become terror of the seas - you will become one with water, gaining enhanced offensive capabilities during underwater expeditions, while unlocking powerful craftable tools to bring down the fiercest creatures you encounter.

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Specilization 2 - Enforcer

This talent tree takes you down the path of the brute, dominating human,alien and monster alike with sheer firepower and unbreakable will; the perks in this tree will keep you standing with multiple survivability and tank based talents.

Specilization 3 - Gunner

You are here because you don't take half measures - you like firepower, and you mean to deliver a lot of it to the enemy in a tree dedicated to crafting automatic weapons, improving explosives and increasing damage.

Crafting tree

This section will visualize the crafting tree that Security officers can use to improve their crafting efforts in the future. Do note that weapons that require other class talents, like the Revolver, will not be included, as they cannot be crafted by Security.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading. If you have questions or notes to correct, leave a comment below or on my profile and I will address the issue.

Feel free to check out other guides you may find useful

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2907356424
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3467935378
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2908830626
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2909762633
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2911254665
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2912924934

Sail safe, bless the Omnisiah o7

[Katzedrale]

Depth Charge Shell has wrong recipe.
Nuclear Depth Decoy has the wrong recipe.

[Katzedrale]

To Scavenger:
It's true that loot talents are not mutually exclusive, but the example here is very bad because medic and security are actually mutually exclusive.
Medics have a talent that only works on creatures, security and mechanics have a talent that works on lockers and the like.

[Katzedrale]

The boarding axe is not the strongest weapon in the game, those are the ceremonial swords.
It is true that the boarding axe ALONE is the strongest weapon, but the ceremonial swords can be used twice.
In this way, they become better on the one hand, and on the other hand, ceremonial swords are currently the only weapon that get +15% quality level instead of all other weapons with +10%.

[m8z8k8]

"Pressure Stabilizer grants the user Pressure Stabilized , which allows the user to not require oxygen and become immune to water pressure.

Provided the skill check is successful, the effects of a single dose will last up to 15 minutes."

from off barotrauma wiki

[Julius [TJ]]

Good guide, gonna use it with my m8 thanks looks awesome