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Atomfallgives you plenty of skills to learn. These can improve your ranged and melee combat, your crafting abilities, your stealthiness, and other important gameplay elements. However, since there’s no real experience point system, you can only learn new skills by finding books calledTraining Manuals.
There are 8 different Training Manuals that you can find scattered around the quarantine zone. To make life easier, this guide will show you where to find them all.
How To Learn New Skills In Atomfall
Before you can unlock skills, you need to find special items calledTraining Stimulants.When picked up, these will grant you skill points that can be spent in the Skills section of the in-game menu. They can typically be found in yellow B.A.R.D. Crates, or they will be rewarded to you for completing certain quests.
There are four types of skills in Atomfall:Ranged Combat, Melee Combat, Survival, and Conditioning.Each type of skill has three skill trees. When you start the game, only one skill tree per skill type will be available for you to learn. The rest will be question marks and require you to find Training Manuals to unlock them.
Where To Find Every Ranged Combat Training Manual In Atomfall
Firearms Mastery Manual
This manual can be found insideSkethermoor Prison, which is an area you’ll go later in the game. It’s where you can rescue a character namedDr. Garrow, who was imprisoned by The Protocol. She’ll be down in the Loading Bay in a solitary cell. To release her from jail, you’ll need to get into the Master Control Room using aSignal Redirector.You can find the Redirector in the Security Room close to her cell, and nearby will be theSecurity Keycard.Before you get into the Master Control Room, you can enter theElectric B Roomwith the keycard. Inside will be theFirearms Mastery Manual.
You can also barter for the manual withCorporal “Bootsy” Hughes, who is stationed at atrading post in Skethermoor.He’ll be at the coordinates36.3 E, 76.2 N.
This manual unlocks these skills:
Bow Mastery Manual
Inside theDruids' Camp within Casterfell Woodswill be a massive castle. Near its main entrance at the coordinates19.5 E, 83.9 Nwill be theBow Mastery Manual sitting on a wooden crate.
Where To Find Every Melee Combat Training Manual In Atomfall
Stealth Manual
InCasterfell Woods, there is a mansion known asDatlow Hallthat can be found at the coordinates26.2 E, 85.4 N.You can begin theDatlow Hall Leadthere, which will require you to find a man named Jenks for a woman named Prudence Rook. If you finish this side quest, you’ll get theConservatory Key, which you can use to unlock the conservatory on the side of the estate. Inside, you will find theStealth Manualamong other goodies.
Or you may trade withMolly Jowettin Slatten Dale at the coordinates 26.4 E, 79.1 N, who will have this manual among her goods for trade.
Melee Combat Manual
TheOutlaw Cavecan be found at the coordinates24.4 E, 75.3 N in Slatten Dale.Explore the cave and kill the outlaws inside to find theMelee Combat Manualsitting on a crate. Watch out for the tripwire trap just before it or you’ll get toasted by a molotov cocktail.
Where To Find Every Survival Training Manual In Atomfall
Crafting Manual
This manual requires the most legwork out of all the other manuals. The first way you can get it is by powering upData Store Deltawith anAtomic Batteryinside The Interchange. Once that’s done, you can then attempt tounlock the store room below.Unfortunately, the lower level of Delta will be flooded and electrified. You’ll need to jump across the computer servers to reach a platform with a dead Interchange scientist on it. You can then loot the body for theData Store D Store Room Key, head down to the store room, and open it to get theCrafting Manual.
The other way of getting this manual requires you to go through theSt. Katherine’s Church Lead.This involves solving a murder that occurs in the church. By going to theBrewery Cellarlocated at the coordinates30.5 E, 80.5 N in Wyndham Village, you may find notes that reveal that the murderer is the owner of the Village Shop,Morris Wick.You can then confront Morris about the murder, and he’ll beg you not to report him to The Protocol. You can then bargain with him to keep his murdering ways a secret in exchange for theCrafting Manual.
If you kill Morris, you won’t be able to loot the Crafting Manual off of his body. Letting him get away with murder is the only way to get the manual from him.
Consumables Manual
This manual can be a reward for completingThe Bakery Leadin Wyndham Village. This involves helpingIris Baxterand her husband, Phillip, who is sick with infection. If you don’t feel like being a goody two-shoes, you can skip right to the end of this side quest by killing Iris, looting theBakery Bedroom Keyoff of her corpse, going upstairs to the bedroom, and killing her husband. You’ll then find theConsumables Manualon the desk.
Or if you don’t want to be a murderer, you can findBilly Gorse in Casterfell Woods at the coordinates 21.5 E, 89.6 Nand barter with him for the manual instead.
Where To Find Every Conditioning Training Manual In Atomfall
Resistances Manual
If you recover theChurch Cellar Key from inside the Medical department of The Interchange, you’ll find an infected scientist namedDr. Holderliving underneath St. Katherine’s Church in the cellar. If you want to advancehis questline to get his ending, you’ll need to take the keycard that he gives you back to Medical and head down to theAuditoriumto retrieve Sample One.However, if you go to the area behind Sample One, theResistances Manualwill be sitting on a crate just before you exit out into the Medical Tunnels.
Experimental Inoculation
The last manual isn’t actually a manual. It also requires you to find theChurch Cellar Key and go to Dr. Holderin the St. Katherine’s Church cellar. Once you’re down there, you can find theExperimental Inoculationsitting on his desk. Use it, and you’ll automatically learn theInfection Resistance skill, which gives you resistance to anything that causes infection build-up.
