Kord Breach

Always on, and it applies to every raid you play, which is worth more than it looks on paper.

Worth knowing before you compare guides: several fan planners translated from Russian list this at 50%. BSG's own preview image says 15%. Some creators rated this perk highly on the strength of the wrong number.

Six points is a large slice of a 34 point ceiling for key durability. Keys are purchasable, and running one dry rarely decides a raid.

The comparison that hurts it: two or three points buys movement or stamina that you feel in every single raid.

Strong on Woods, Shoreline, Lighthouse and Ground Zero. Close to dead weight on Factory, Labs or Interchange.

Five points is roughly a seventh of the entire budget for something that only pays out on the maps your quests happen to send you to.

Painkillers are sold by Therapist at loyalty level 1, run for 80 seconds, and no longer carry the old dehydration penalty.

So this is a shorter version of something you can simply buy, tied to carrying juice.

Compare it against what already exists in the game. Propital gives Health Regeneration +1 for 300 seconds. This gives +2 for 10 seconds.

Regeneration also spreads across body parts over time rather than healing them all at once, so a 10 second window moves very little health. Some guides list this as a top pick, which is hard to square with those numbers.

Two effects for 3 points, both permanent. For scale, +10 stamina is roughly 10% of the leg bar and 20% of the arm bar. SJ6 is around +30.

It also more than covers Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which makes that negative close to a free point if you take both.

A flavour perk with an unknown payout, and BSG has not said how much or exactly how often.

At 1 point it is close to a rounding error in either direction.

Narrow. Bolt-action elite gives steady aim for the first 3 seconds regardless of stamina, plus faster mastering gain. It only pays off if you plan a dedicated bolt-action season.

Note that Incompetent explicitly excludes Bolt-action Rifles from its slowdown. That exclusion looks deliberate, and the two are cheap to run together.

The best points per effect on the board. One point roughly doubles the mileage of everything you eat and drink.

It also stacks cleanly with Polydipsia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, turning two cheap negatives into a net gain.

Fixes the worst part of a fresh start, which is panting ten seconds into any movement, for 3 points.

It is the main reason people struggle to justify Average at 10 points.

Applies to every rotation, every extract run and every disengage, for 2 points.

Easy to skip when scanning a list, and hard to regret taking.

Fine, and unexciting. Bleeds are cheap to treat, and 2 points buys more elsewhere.

It also takes Hemophilia off the table in practice, which is 2 points you were probably going to bank.

Weak on its own. Diet does more for half the price and covers hydration and energy at once.

Mostly relevant if you also want the matching negative off the board.

Same shape as Hypodipsia. Diet is the cheaper and broader answer to drain.

Youth also handles energy, and gives you stamina on top.

Middling in general, and genuinely useful if you play maps where you drop from height a lot, such as the Shoreline resort.

It is also the one modifier BSG has shown being hard blocked, by Osteoporosis.

Divisive, and worth thinking about carefully because 10 points is nearly a third of the ceiling.

In its favour: every skill at 25 on day one includes the quiet ones people forget, such as Vitality, Health, Metabolism, Stress Resistance and Attention.

Against it: Hercules covers the part that actually hurts for 7 fewer points, and the level 25 hard cap forfeits every elite perk for the entire season.

The headline pick, and more contested than it first looks. A 3x4 secure container from raid one compounds economically for the whole season, and nothing else on the board does that.

Against it: Kappa requirements are being eased this patch, quest kill objectives are now group shared so a duo or trio can rush it far faster than before, and Unheard and EOD owners already start with a Gamma.

The structural cost is the real argument. At 21 points you have to take nearly every negative on the board to afford it. It reads much better for solo players than for anyone with a regular squad.