FIELD MANUAL / Characters
Choose your first Living
Compare mobility, pressure and recovery before choosing a character.
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Pick a job you enjoy
Start with scouting, committing to fights or helping a group recover. Compare the character profiles and their reported ability kits.
Read the conditions
Look at range, duration and whether damage interrupts an effect. An ability helps only when its conditions fit the situation.
Try before investing
Use a modest expedition to learn the kit. Note when you actually use each ability and whether it solves a recurring problem.
Explore the Living →Related guides.
All guides →Community tips & tricks
Playtest lessons for affordable runs, stamina, extraction and keeping quest progress.
TeamplayBuild a party that can recover
Agree on scouting, engagement and recovery before leaving together.
CombatHealth & medicine
The developer-described health baseline and how reusable and consumable medicine differ.
Preparation advice is editorial. Expedition and progression overviews summarize the developer’s published game description. Reported game values are available on the individual reference pages; check requirements in your current build.