Where should you allocate your skill points first in RoboCop: Rogue City

For a game about shooting thugs and enforcing the law using violence, RoboCop: Rogue City has quite a few places to stick your experience. But where’s the best place to start? 

You get a skill point every 1000 experience points, and there are eight separate skills to level up. Skill points are tough to come by at the beginning of the game, so you have to make the most of them.

Here’s the thing: it comes down to preference. However, the best way to maximize your experience gain is by putting your points into the deduction skill. It may seem like the least glamorous of the skills since it doesn’t cap off with a massively overpowered ability, but there’s a method here: each skill point into deduction increases the amount of experience you get from reading notes. Once you cap out the entire skill line, you get an even better power, a 30% increase in experience gained.

The big reason for capping out this skill line is that it will mean more experience for the rest of the game. This allows you to level up quicker and build up the other skill lines at a faster pace. Getting this early means more experience will be affected by the boost. A secondary benefit to this is that, after a certain deduction threshold, Murphy will gain the ability to collect additional information from notes and books. Certain tasks that require engineering skills can usually be done by searching the environment for a note that can only be read when your deduction is high enough.

After that, it’s up to you. Psychology can help you get closer to the other characters, while other skills will boost your combat abilities. One of my favorites is the armor skill line. When you level it up, bullets from smaller caliber weapons will ricochet off RoboCop’s armor, which passively eliminates thugs. While it’s not exactly necessary since small arms are the least of Murphy’s concerns, it is hilarious to watch goons take each other out.