Wasteland 3 skills

Overview
The skills system has been overhauled for Wasteland 3 to make it tighter and more focused. As your Rangers gain sill levels, they'll be able to craft more items, in addition to being more powerful.

Automatic Weapons
Makes you more effective with submachine guns and assault rifles. Recommended Attributes: Coordination, Awareness, Speed

Big Guns
Makes you more effective with heavy machine guns, flamethrowers, and other oversized weapons. Recommended Attributes: Awareness, Coordination, Strength

Brawling
Makes you more effective with fist-based weapons. Brawlers start out weak but have great potential at high levels. Recommended Attributes: Coordination, Intelligence, Charisma

Melee Combat
Makes you more effective with bladed and blunt weapons. Recommended Attributes: Strength, Coordination, Speed

Small Arms
Makes you more effective with handguns and shotguns. Recommended Attributes: Coordination, Luck, Awareness

Sniper Rifles
Makes you more effective with sniper rifles. Recommended Attributes: Intelligence, Awareness, Luck

Animal Whisperer
Allows you to tame friendly animals to follow you, and temporarily tame hostile animals in combat (level 3 and above).

Explosives
Allows you to deal more damage with explosives, defuse bombs, and avoid losing your digits when they go off.

First Aid
Makes you more effective when using healing items and reviving squad members.

Sneaky Shit
Makes it easier to disarm alarms, evade detection, spot hidden objects, and damage unaware enemies.

Weird Science
Increases the damage you deal with unconventional types of weapons, and serves as a requirement for exotic, high-tech equipment.

Armor Modding
Allows you to modify armor, granting it increased protection and additional benefits.

Lockpicking
Allows you to open containers, doors, and other locked objects.

Nerd Stuff
Allows you to use and hack computers, and turn hostile robots to your side.

Mechanics
You can repair vehicles, generators and other machines more effectively. You also do more damage to mechanical foes.

Survival
Improves your ability to avoid dangers on the World Map, and contend with hostile wildlife.

Toaster Repair
Allows you to repair broken toasters.

Weapon Modding
Allows you to modify your weapons, and strip them down for parts.

Barter
Allows you to buy items for less, and sell them for more.

Hard Ass
Allows you to intimidate others to do what you want and throw them off guard.

Kiss Ass
Allows you to sweet-talk information out of others and bring them to your way of thinking.

Leadership
Inspires your nearby allies, and grants you abilities to command the battlefield.

Behind the scenes

 * For reference, the internal codes for skills are as follows. Crafting and Scavenging were intended to be a skill, but was never implemented.