Level Up Your Leadership Early
There are a lot of stats to choose from in The Outer Worlds, and it can be a bit overwhelming at first to decide where to put points. One of the first stats you should invest in, though, is leadership.
At the very least you want to get it to 20 early on, as this lets you use companion abilities mapped to the D-pad. These are hugely useful abilities that can cause a ton of damage to enemies or stagger them, and are simply on a cooldown.
Past that, high leadership skills can increase the damage your companion’s cause, or the amount they’re healed by your inhaler. You don’t have to sink all of your points into leadership, but you should put at least a bit into it to bolster the effectiveness of your companions.
Of course, once you reach 50, you’ll unlock each skill separately and will have to put points into Inspiration and Determination independently.
