Days Gone Remasteredhas an array of skills for players to unlock as they progress through the game. In total, there are 45 skills to acquire, and they’re spread across three categories: Melee Skills, Ranged Skills, and Survival Skills. Players will earn XP by killing Freakers and completing missions, which will allow them to level up and spend Skill Points.

This guide lists every skill available inDays Gone Remasteredand explains how to use them. Before purchasing a skill, players should ponder what they’d like to improve or what could help them the most at a certain point in the game.

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Melee Skills in Days Gone

Players who want to excel at hand-to-hand combat should invest their Skill Points in the Melee Skills category. With Melee Skills, players can improve melee weapon damage, their ability to successfully dodge and evade, and even keep their favorite weapons around for longer by unlocking a skill to repair them.

Kill smaller enemies after successfully escaping from a grapple

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Ability torepair melee weapons with scrap

Improves the initial recovery and duration of a Stamina Cocktail

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Hard Hitter

Increases the damage of both crafted and found melee weapons (excludes Boot Knife)

Regenerates stamina for every melee kill

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Ability to perform longer combos with melee weapons

Ability to roll quickly to recover from a knockdown

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Bull Rush

Ability to stun a normal human enemy or Swarmer with a melee attack while sprinting

This may knock back the enemy and stun them

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The Reckoning

Gives melee weapons a chance for a critical takedown on humans, Swarmers, and Newts (excludes Boot Knife)

Drastically reduces stamina cost from rolling

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Rock On

Ability to stun weaker enemies by hitting them with a rock

Home Run

Significantly increases the damage of both crafted and found melee weapons (excludes Boot Knife)

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Retribution

Increases the chance of a critical hit or takedown by 25 percent (requires The Reckoning ability)

Boot Knife combos do twice the normal damage

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Executioner

Ability to stealth attack heavy Freakers. Also adds the ability to kill heavy Freakers and large animals while escaping a Grapple

Ranged Skills in Days Gone

If players prefer to fight with a gun, then the Ranged Skills section is where they’d want to spend their Skill Points. Here, they can improve their Focus, steady their shots by decreasing recoil and increasing accuracy, and increase how much ammo they can carry.

Ability to activate Focus while aiming a ranged weapon

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Slows down time, making it easier to hit shots - similarly toDead Eye inRed Dead Redemption 2.

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Move and aim a ranged weapon with more precision

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Vicious Cycle

Ability to follow a melee attack with a ranged attack for massive damage

Suppressing Fire

When in Focus, ranged weapons will have an increased power to stop weaker enemies

Increases chance to stun enemies with ranged weapons

Reduces the cooldown of Focus

Improves the initial recovery and duration of a Focus Cocktail

Ability to reload ranged weapons while sprinting

Significantly reduces ranged weapon recoil

Significantly increases crossbow bolt damage

No longer consume Focus when reloading a ranged weapon

Players can now reload with Focus activated without consuming it

Reduces the reload times for ranged weapons

Increases ranged weapon accuracy

Increases ammo capacity for all ranged weapons

Two Birds, One Bullet

Increases projectile penetration for ranged weapons

Bullets can now go through enemies and hurt others behind them - great for defeating hordes and taking down swarms hidden in their nests

Head Rush

Headshot kills recover health

Players recover health if they take down an enemy with a headshot

Survival Skills in Days Gone

It can be easy to overlook the Survival Skills category inDays Gone, but that’s a mistake. If players want to gather all of the collectibles inDays Goneand secure a platinum, acquiring skills such as Hawkeyed is crucial. Additionally, it’s in this section that gamers can unlock the ability to recover bolts from the Crossbow - one of themost useful ranged weapons inDays Gone.

Gamers who prefer to focus on stealth and item gathering should definitely invest in the Survival Skills section.

Increases the time that icons display in Survival Vision

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Thorn In Your Side

Provides a chance to retrieve some bolts that have been fired from your crossbow

Increases the range of Survival Vision

Thief in the Night

Generate less noise when moving or dropping

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Ability to gather double the plants when collecting them

Gather twice as many plants - great forgetting more Credits at camps inDays Goneand crafting crossbow bolts and cocktails

Increases the amount of meat gathered from animals

Another great way to get more Credits

Reduces cooldown on stamina recovery

Ear to the Ground

Doubles the effectiveness of scrap while repairing the bike

Waste less Scrap when repairing Deacon’s bike

Second Wind

Gives an extra burst of adrenaline when low on health

Allows you to take a few more hits even when health is beyond a critical point

Increases inventory space for crafting components, traps, and throwables

Improves the initial recovery and duration of a Health Cocktail

Significantly increases stamina regeneration rates

Regain some stamina when taking damage

At the end ofDays Gone, players may have additional Skill Points. If they pre-ordered the game, then they will receive some skills early, and therefore won’t have to unlock them at all during their playthrough, which is why they may have Skill Points to spare once theyfinishDays Gone.