Top Entry-Level Job to Choose for Completing Abiotic Factor Challenges

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Arriving at GATE Cascade Research Facility

When you arrive at the secret GATE Cascade Research Facility, which has recently experienced containment issues in Abiotic Factor, you will need to fight alien creatures and survive using whatever you find. The researchers at the facility come from different backgrounds, and this affects your ability to choose a Job and Traits.

Character Creation Overview

There are three main steps: choose your character’s appearance, select a Job, and pick Traits. Your Job gives you bonuses in specific Skills and starts you with a certain number of Points to spend on Traits. Traits can give you advantages or disadvantages that impact your character’s abilities.

Choosing Your Job

Your Job reflects your background and influences your initial Skill levels, starting Trait Points, and experience gains from crafting certain items. For example, the Archotechnic Researcher gets more experience crafting construction items than others.

Character appearance is separate from your Job and Traits; it stays consistent regardless of where you start or join. You can change look options each time you start or join a game, but Traits and Job are set anew each time.

Role in Group Play

Jobs also help guide your role in a team, offering early Skill bonuses especially when Traits synergize well. While you are encouraged to specialize, you are not forced to play a specific role. Skills can become balanced as you level up, and no Job caps Skill levels unless you have a specific Trait that limits it.

Job Details

Best Job to Start With

The ideal job depends on whether you’re playing alone or with others. In multiplayer, you can learn recipes from teammates unless you have the Slow Learner Trait, so you don’t need to diversify skills as much. But in singleplayer, having a broad skill set is essential.

The difficulty level also affects your choice, as Jobs with higher initial Trait Points allow you to avoid taking negative Traits. Generally, for solo play, the Trans-Kinematic Researcher is the best starting job. It provides good stats for combat early on, helping you face enemies quickly.

This Job starts you off with a Blunt Damage Desk Leg, which offers an immediate weapon option. Additionally, bonuses to Fortitude and Strength help in fights. Combining it with Traits like Gardener and First Aid Certification can also boost specific skills such as Agriculture and First Aid, giving a head start in useful areas.

What Do Traits Do?

In addition to your Job, you can customize your character with Traits—positive and negative. Each Job provides some Trait Points, but these are limited initially.

• Positive Traits cost Points and provide benefits.
• Negative Traits add Points, allowing you to take more Benefits but also incur disadvantages.

Positive Traits can improve your skills, enhance your survival, or synergize with your Job. Negative Traits usually bring challenges but reward you with more Trait Points, letting you pick additional benefits. Some Traits are incompatible with each other and cannot be used together.

The more severe a Negative Trait, the more Points it grants you in return. Likewise, powerful Traits, either beneficial or harmful, tend to cost more Points—some costing twice as much as others.

You are not required to select Negative Traits unless the Job demands it, but many players opt to get at least one to optimize their character build.

All Positive Traits

All Negative Traits

Top Traits for Each Job

While any Trait can work with any Job, some Traits boost specific Jobs more effectively, especially early in the game as they share skill bonuses.

For example, Decathlon Competitor is widely useful because it benefits most Jobs that start with strength bonuses and enhances the Sprinting skill necessary throughout the game.

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