Skills overview

The information was taken from official Deus Ex readme file, written by Ion Storm.

1. Weapons: Heavy (costs 2000)
Upgrading this skill grants players greater accuracy, speed and damage with heavy weapons, just as in the single-player game. Affects plasma rifle, GEP gun, flamethrower.

2. Weapons: Pistol (costs 2000)
Upgrading this skill grants players greater accuracy and damage with pistol weapons, just as in the single-player game. Affects pistol, mini-crossbow.

3. Weapons: Rifle (costs 2000)
Upgrading this skill grants players greater accuracy and damage with rifle weapons, just as in the single-player game. Affects sniper rifle, assault rifle, sawed-off shotgun, assault shotgun.

4. Weapons: Low-Tech (costs 2000)
Upgrading this skill grants players greater accuracy and damage with low-tech weapons, just as in the single-player game. Affects combat knife, throwing knives, Dragon's Tooth sword, crowbar and etc.

5. Weapons: Demolition (costs 1000)
Upgrading this skill grants players greater accuracy and higher damage with demolitions (e.g., LAMs, gas grenades, EMP grenades). If your skill level is higher than the skill level of the player who placed one of these weapons as a proximity trap, you have more time to disarm it before it goes off.

6. Environmental Training (costs 1000)
This skill increases the duration and effectiveness of the Adaptive Armor, Ballistic Armor and Hazmat Suit. (Note: While this feature is enabled in DXMP, no such suits are placed on any of the levels included with the multiplayer version of the game. It is included here in support of users who wish to include these items in maps of their own creation).

7. Lockpicking (costs 1000)
Upgrading this skill reduces the number of picks required as well as the amount of time needed to pick a non-electronic lock.

8. Multitooling (costs 1000)
This skill reduces the number of multitools required and the amount of time needed to override a keypad lock or bypass a turret (returning it to a neutral state).

9. Medicine (costs 1000)
Upgrading the medicine skill makes Medkits more effective in restoring lost health points (HP). On the first upgrade level, medkits heal 30 points, on 2d — 60, on 3d — 90. 

0. Computers (costs 1000)
Upgrading the computer skill reduces the amount of time required to break into a computer security system and take control of cameras and turrets. Unlike single-player Deus Ex, all players can hack in multiplayer but your speed increases with skill level. However, you can only hack enemy-controlled or neutral computers; you can't hack a computer that has already been hacked by an ally.

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