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After each successful mission, Agents can upgrade or learn new Skills provided that they have enough credits.[1]
Each Agent has 4 Skills that can be upgraded. Each upgrade is permanent and cannot be downgraded or unlearned.[2]
Skills table[]
| Skill | Bonus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | Level 1 (0 CR) | Level 2 (500 CR) | Level 3 (600 CR) | Level 4 (700 CR) | Level 5 (1000 CR) |
| Standard movement. | Adds +1 AP. | Adds +1 AP. | Adds +1 AP. | Adds +1 AP. Sprinting adds 1 extra AP. | |
| Hacking | Level 1 (0 CR) | Level 2 (500 CR) | Level 3 (600 CR) | Level 4 (700 CR) | Level 5 (1000 CR) |
| Can hijack consoles. | Adds +1 PWR per console hijack. | Adds +1 PWR per console hijack. | Adds +1 PWR per console hijack. | Adds +2 PWR per console hijack. | |
| Strength[3] | Level 1 (0 CR) | Level 2 (300 CR) | Level 3 (500 CR) | Level 4 (500 CR) | Level 5 (900 CR) |
| Carry 3 items. | Carry 4 items +1 Drag Speed. |
Carry 5 items. | Carry 6 items. +1 Drag Speed. |
Carry 7 items. +1 KO damage to melee weapons. | |
| Anarchy | Level 1 (0 CR) | Level 2 (400 CR) | Level 3 (500 CR) | Level 4 (600 CR) | Level 5 (800 CR) |
| Can steal from KO'd guards.[4] | Can steal from behind.[5] | Can steal +15% more credits. | Can steal +20% more credits. | Increased chance to steal items. | |
It costs 10 100 CR to fully upgrade an agent with no skills.
- Speed = 2 800 CR,
- Hacking = 2 800 CR,
- Strength = 2 200 CR,
- Anarchy = 2 300 CR.
When fully upgraded, an agent has the following skill bonuses:
- +4 AP,
- +1 Sprint AP,
- +5 Extra PWR per console hijack,
- +4 Carry Capacity,
- +2 Drag Speed,
- +1 KO damage in melee,
- Can Steal from behind,
- +35% more credits stolen,
- Increased item steal chance.
Starting skill bonuses[]
Some Agents already have skill upgrades at the start of the game. Archive agents have the same skill bonuses as their on-file counterparts. Some Agents already have some of their skills upgraded from the start.
| List of agent skill bonuses. | |
| Agent | Skill Bonus |
|---|---|
| Decker | Speed Level 2 |
| Internationale | Hacking Level 2 |
| Shalem 11 | Strength Level 2 |
| Banks | Anarchy Level 2 |
| Sharp | Strength Level 2 |
| Prism | Anarchy Level 2 |
| Central | Anarchy Level 3 |
| Monst3r | Hacking Level 3 |
| Olivia | Anarchy Level 2 |
| Derek | Hacking Level 2 |
| Draco | Strength Level 2 |
| Rush | Speed Level 2 |
The Special Case of Draco[]
If The Contingency Plan DLC is installed, Draco 
becomes available as an agent. Unlike all other agents, Draco's Neural Pattern Grid augment prevents Draco from buying skill upgrades[6].
Instead, Draco upgrades his skills by using his unique augment to scan the corpses of dead guards. Each scan will provide a random permanent skill upgrade. Draco requires scans from 15 different corpses in order to fully upgrade his skills.
Draco's skills can also be increased by installing any of the Brain Chip augments (each of which will set a particular skill to level 3). Interestingly, Draco's augment will ignore the presence of the Brain Chip, and allow the skill to go beyond level 3. Be aware that drilling the Brain Chip will reset the skill it affects back to level 1. Generally, there are better uses for Draco's augment slots.
Notes[]
- ↑ Skills can only be bought in-between missions.
- ↑ Special exceptions: Installing a Brain Chip augment will set the level of a skill to 3, regardless of what it was before. Drilling the augment out will set the skill to level 1.
- ↑ An agent is not pervented from holding more items than what their Strength skill suggests - all agents can hold up to 8 items. However, doing so will cause the agent to become over-encumbered, reducing their maximum AP by -1 for every item over what their Strength skill allows.
- ↑ In addition to guards, drones can also be stolen from. Drones usually have a small amount of PWR that can be stolen (it's best to not think how that works), but can also have items too.
- ↑ The bonus of Anarchy level 2 does not require you to be behind the unit being stolen from, it can be done from any adjacent, non-diagonal tile. This includes stealing from the tile directly in front of them.
- ↑ Drilling Draco's augment out will allow him to buy skill upgrades like any other agent.