This means all the things that you don’t actually need to use while out on foot such as minerals, materials, and heavy parts crafted at the industrial workbench can be safely left on your ship so you don’t need to carry around the extra mass. Research Stations and workbenches don’t just pull resources from the inventory on your person, but from your ship’s cargo hold as well. You Can Use Materials Stored on your Ship This is a little extra storage area for you to use for a few essentials - gear, weapons, and other goods you don’t want to sell or get rid of as you travel in order to stop you from becoming encumbered quite as often. There is also a Captain’s Locker behind the Captain’s seat within the Cockpit area. When in your ship (and even up to 250 meters outside of your ship), open up your character menu and select the ship icon in the left corner, and you’ll find the option to view your cargo (by pressing F on PC and X on controller), letting you retrieve or store items without having to interact with the terminal by the pilot seat. If you need to swap out items in the hold, there are a couple more ways to do so. This sort of includes the Stealth skill, as you won't be able to see if you're hidden or not without unlocking the Stealth skill first - but you’ll still technically have a degree of stealth by crouching. Robotics gives you extra damage to robots and turrets, but more importantly, allows you to force them to stop fighting and do other things depending on the skill rank.Xenosociology gives you the power to have an alien creature stop fighting and more depending on the skill rank.Manipulation lets you force a NPC below your level to obey commands.Instigation makes it so you can force a NPC below your level to attack their allies.Intimidation gives you the option to force an NPC below your level to flee.Diplomacy allows you to force a NPC below your level to stop fighting for a time.

You'll need this if you want to board and enemy ship This slows down time and gives you the ability to target an individual part of an enemy ship. Targeting Control Systems allows you to use the Targeting Systems during space combat.Piloting gives you access to the Ship Thrusters.Boost Pack Training allows you to use the Pack Boosters.

Theft unlocks the ability to Pickpocket.

For example, these skills require at least 1 point to be able to make use of the ability at all: There are quite a few things you cannot do until you have made the progress needed to unlock the Skills you need to perform a certain task.

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