No More Room in Hell 2 Skills

Eight names, one body

Community and wiki sheets put eight skills on a finished Responder: the starter plus seven later slots at Character levels around 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50. Treat those thresholds as a planning number until Torn Banner publishes a sheet. What is not TBA: the slot is permadeath. A Nightmare down on an Expert tree is how expensive Responders disappear. Early extract exists so that tree walks out — extract.

The offer is three. You keep one.

When a slot levels, you get a short list, not the whole ~47. Some later perks stay hidden until a prerequisite is already on the tree — community examples include shotgun-follow-up skills that want a prior shotgun perk. Do not plan a fantasy eight-perk spreadsheet if the pool will not show the name. If the three on screen are all gun skills and you live on Fire Axe, skip the reload and take stamina or immunity if they appear. You can reroll; 1.0 removed the Cancel button because the spend cannot be undone.

Next: when Credits should actually hit Expert, and when they should hit Rescue Beacon instead.

Credits buy rank, they do not buy a new character

Exact Credit prices stay TBA here rather than scraped from unofficial shops. The 1.0 economy overhaul still spends the same two currencies: Credits from Supplies / extracts, Merits from Weekly Assignments. Expert is a Credits sink on the character sheet. Merits are for cosmetics and high-end loadout items, including Rescue Beacon. Mixing those two wallets is how people Expert-upgrade a slot and then cannot afford the Beacon that would have saved it.

Account Level is not Character Level

Community sheets say some Expert versions stay out of the offer pool until the account is high enough. That is a reported gate, not an official published table. What you can plan around: Character XP lives on the Responder and dies with them; Account XP does not. Do not park Expert hopes on a slot you will burn to reroll backgrounds. Create the right background on Responders, then spend.

Butcher is a sharp-weapon perk, not a personality

Dismember turns legs into Crawlers you still have to finish. If you take Butcher and then main a Baseball Bat, you paid for a cut you will not throw. Pair it with a blade, shove to make the arc, then finish the downed body in the +100% window. Exact dismember chance stays TBA. The melee guide is the swing string; this page is the name on the character sheet.

Stamina perks exist because empty bars become infection

A grab you cannot break is a bite. A bite is Phalanx Pills and a hunt for Gene Therapy — infection. Athlete / Marathon Runner buy the next shove. Adrenaline Rush is a panic valve, not a reason to tank Walkers at red health. If the offer shows Butcher and a rifle reload and you are still on Small Pipe, take Butcher. Guns are a noise budget; melee is how most Walkers actually die.

Immunity is a chance cut, not Gene Therapy

Acquired Immunity is the confirmed infection perk. It lowers the odds of a bite sticking. It does not delay stages and it does not replace the one Gene Therapy kit. Expert can go further on a slot you intend to keep. You still loot Phalanx Pills. You still call coughs. If the offer is Immunity versus Caravan on a Nightmare Responder, take Immunity.

Caravan is a bag perk with a body tax

Confirmed: more weight capacity, less stamina and health. That is a Supply-hauler trade for a gunner with a full squad covering shoves — not a first-drop melee slot. Mule appears on older community lists as a cleaner capacity perk; Caravan is the named 1.0-era trade. If you already struggle to finish a Charged, do not pay extra stamina to carry more cans. Drop weight, extract, or take Scavenger instead.

Reload names are the other half of a gun slot — next.

Pick the caliber first, then the perk

Nightmare ammo got tighter in 1.0. A reload perk on the wrong family just makes you empty the wrong mag faster. Inspect the gun you will keep — weapons — then take the matching reload if it appears. If the crate is all 5.56, Rifle Reloading plus MC15 beats Shotgun Reloading plus hope. Unload every gun you will not keep; the perk does not unload it for you.

Gun skills still make noise

Faster reloads do not make unsilenced fire quiet. A mag dump beside teammates is still a Runner pile. Fit a muzzle before you volunteer to be loud. Melee remains the default clear; reload perks are for the Prime, the helmet, and the extract panic — the same jobs the weapons page already assigned to guns.

Confirmed names, not a fake 47

This page will name what we can stand behind: Acquired Immunity, Adrenaline Rush, Builder, Butcher, Caravan, Longer Battery, Scavenger, Marathon Runner, the three reload skills, plus community-visible names that show up on inspect (Athlete, Rush, Hitman, Mule, Skilled Medic, Hellfire, Overkill). Everything else in the ~47 stays TBA. Do not copy an Early Access class table and call it 1.0.

Backgrounds moved too

Older guides called backgrounds “classes” and bound Courier to Mule. Later notes bind Courier-style carry to Caravan (weight up, stamina and health down). Football MVP is Adrenaline Rush on some community sheets and Marathon Runner on others — confirm on the create screen, do not memorize a 2024 article. The Responders page lists the same community examples with that warning.

One habit that saves the roster

On create, read the starter skill. On every level-up, pick the perk that matches how this body already fights. Spend Credits on Expert only after that body has walked out of a drop. That is the whole No More Room in Hell 2 perks loop. The beginner guide is the first extract; tips is the short checklist; this page is the tree.