Road 96 is an incredible road trip adventure game with a narrative focus and multiple choices that affect whether the country of Petria falls further into tyrannical oppression or finally escapes it at the end of the game. The characters that the player interacts with are intriguing and diverse, but they also can each give helpful abilities that help with later runs in the game and the final few chapters.
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From making tasks easier to helping the playersurvive in a tricky situation, some Road 96 abilities are more useful than others, but all are worth unlocking. If a player is looking to unlock all of them in a single run, they’ll need to follow the following guide.
6Hacking
While hacking does sound like a useful skill to pick up, it generally only helps with opening a few doors and safes throughout the game. It can help with certain Stan and Mitch scenarios as well, but these are of less importance than some other scenarios.
To unlock the hacking skill requires a certain scene with Alex, unsurprisingly. If the player takes a bus or taxi there is a chance they’ll find themselves at a diner with Alex playing a game of Pwong. This will subsequently lead to him trying to rob the safe behind the diner. If the player chooses to help him then he’ll give them the hacking skill to get through the safe.
5Lock picking
Lock-picking is similar to hacking, the skill allows players to open new doors in buildings. Unfortunately, it doesn’t allow players to unlock cars, but it can also be useful in helping Zoe in some scenarios, which makes it more useful than hacking as Zoe’s scenarios can prove much more pivotal to the ending achieved in the game. Money can also be made by using this skill, but it is not as pivotal as some others.
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To unlock lock-picking, the playerhas to take a taxiand find themselves accompanying Stan and Mitch in a heist at the Happy Taxi headquarters. If the player helps the pair with the heist, they will give the lock-picking skill during the tense scenario.
4Lucky Star
The lucky star is the sort of prize that sounds completely useless, but actually has a wide-reaching buff to the player’s abilitiesas they go throughout the game.For every dice roll moment, as you go through the game, the lucky star’s ability adds a fifteen percent chance of success to the roll. While not giving any guarantees of success at any time, the star will also add some dialogue choices throughout.
To get the lucky star, the player has to probably take a walking option and happen across a Tyrak rally, where Sonya will enlist the player’s help in filming the rally. The player doesn’t even have to perform this job well in aiding Tyrak, they can sabotage the actual rally by enlisting the crowd to boo Tyrak, as long as the player conducts the pre-rally interview well with Sonya they get the lucky star.
3Government Pass
The government pass can help in some of the most difficult situations in the game, namelydealing with police officers.It gives more options and will help the player escape some of the most dangerous positions they can find themselves in. It also allows players to get better luck on scratchcards, which makes it a lot easier to earn solid money through the rest of the game. This ability is valuable, even if it only works well in specific circumstances.
To get the government pass, the player has to steal a car and get pulled over by Officer Fanny. She will go to arrest the player but gets distracted by a high-speed chase that the player must help her with. If the player chooses to crash the vehicle then Fanny will make the player leave the scene and leave her government pass in the car for the player to take.
2Omen Vitality
For a game where each chapter’s likeliest method of failure is through running out of energy, the omenvitality perk is hugely useful.Not only does this perk add two bars to the player’s maximum potential energy, which is a huge boost, but it also makes player characters stronger, so they have more options to break through doors that require strength.
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To get this ability, the player must be picked up by John while hitchhiking. The player must wake him up when he starts to fall asleep, and he will then prompt the player to make him a drink that he gives the recipe. After making the drink, the player gains this extremely valuable perk.
1Cleverness
The best ability in the gameis likely the cleverness ability. This ability gives a huge number of additional dialogue choices at important moments through the game, making the player characters smarter and unlocking both deception and persuasion as ways to interact with other characters. This gives players another way to escape across the border by taking the offshore worker exam.
Cleverness is also the hardest ability to achieve, as it involves quite a dangerous method. To unlock this ability, the player must keep taking taxis until they get Jarod, the killer. Having a conversation with Jarod is extremely hazardous and can end in the player’s death more often than not. For simply surviving a journey with him, the player will earn the cleverness trait. This means all the charactersexcept for Zoehave an ability attached to their stories, but don’t let that deter a run from including as much of her as possible, her story is vital to the endings of the game.
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