Unfortunate Spacemen Perk Tier List Updated 1.3 Version

With the perks now split into 4 different categories each focusing on a specific aspect of changing gameplay.

Personal ranking
Good

• Investigator
• Janitor
• Doctor

Depends

• Cultist
• Soldier
• Warden

Bad

• Recruit

– +15 Max Health
– Pros

• A little more health

– Con

• null

– Pros

• Health regen over time
• Health syringe to heal others +25 HP and to cure anyone with a parasite timebomb
• Med Kit to heal anyone 35 HP

– Cons

• Health regen ONLY goes to 75 HP

– Pros

• Start with fire extinguisher
• Puts out ‘dangerous flames’ for someone on fire from a flamethrower
• Fire extinguisher drains monster disguise energy
• Will not trigger airlock
• Instantly pickup debris
• walk 25% faster when carrying ‘task items’

– Cons

• Start with no weapon
• Strangles crew mates and yourself when firing

I’ve always found the fire extinguisher terrible for early and middle game. It’s great for speeding up the wait when you still have a monster in the shuttle.
While no airlock trigger, instant debris pickup, and 25% walking speed are good perks they can mostly be overcome with skill and better movement of the map.

(they finally debuffed spacemilk, darn you balance!)
– Pros

• A second chance at life
• If you are the last spaceman you will receive ‘space madness’ which increases your movement speed

– Neutral

• Teleport to a random location on the map which also could include primed airlocks leading to an untimely death

– Cons

• You can not use voice or text chat, only emotion react
• Health is set to whatever your current health was (since space milk is used out of fear you will almost always be damaged from the monster)

Pros

• Start with an assault rifle
• ‘Stim pack’ to temporarily increase fire rate
• ‘Your assault rifle’ is more accurate with half the bullet spread
• Don’t emit pain grunts
• Stun grenades blind for half as long

– Neutral

• See or steal keycards from others

– Cons

• No key card
• You can’t pickup any gear items

– Pros

• Stun baton can ‘eletrolock inviduals’
• Keycard is shielded when someone tries to steal it
• You can’t be eletroblock
• Deal 10% more damage to spacement marked as suspect

– Cons

• Start with a stun baton instead of a pistol (because neither will be effect against a solo match against the monster)

– Pros

• Pocket detective, extremely useful for experienced play
• You can track monster and suspicious spaceman foot prints
• Notified when half of spacemen are dead
• Ability to identify fake monster decoys

– Cons

• Inability to drop pocket detective

Overall personal ranking
1. Springy step
2. Welder
3. Oxygen filter
Explanation: Learn the timing of the oxygen and how to move around the map and fast oxygen will not be needed. From a previous guide on the welder perk, “Doors can be both a hindrance and a blessing, so repairing them is subjective.Only real good use for it as a Spacemen, is to repair cameras should a Monster destroy one, but its rare they do. Also it’s rare if a beginner knows how to use a camera properly.” Springy step gives you faster movement which is best for getting task done, whether it be early or late round.

• Recover oxygen 2x faster
• Immune to being strangled by fire extinguisher
• Parasites deal only half damage

• Move 15% faster
• Jump higher

• Repair of doors and security camera
• Weld doors shut
• Can see all destroyed objects on the overhead map

Overall personal ranking
1. Antibodies
2. Blast Shield
3. Magnetic boots
Explanation: Boots can be circumvented by experience. Explosions happen but are not a common occurrence. For me the ability to not be color blind and still know who’s who in a silent or semi-talkative lobby is more important.

• Immune to effects of colorblind virus
• If the monster eats your corpse it’s prevented from regenerating its health for a long duration of time
• take 25% less damage from acid and no damage from toxic clouds
• can’t be a zombified by a corpse lord
• can’t be infected by a parasite bomb

• Can’t be sucked out of airlocks or blasted of E.M.E’s but will take damage from E.M.E blast
• Footprints are invisible to the monsters thermal footprint vision
• reduced distance when shoved
• deal damage to the monster when you are grabbed in a burrow trap
• take 5% less damage

• Lethal explosions that would otherwise kill you leave you at low health
• Non-headshot damage from headshots when the blast shield is active

Overall personal ranking
1. Nimble
2. Brawny
3. Vip Keycard
Explanation: I personally never find a second keycard useful. For me, they are only good in certain scenarios. The only thing Brawny has going for it is the 25% reduction in melee damage. I personally have gotten more caught up in unseen bomb/eggs.
HOWEVER, all three of these are fine perks and are mostly down to personal play style.

• Start with 2 keycards
• With soldier perk you start with a keycard but no spare
• You Can overide locked doors when you have a keycard available

• Punch deals 1 additional damage
• Punch a bit faster
• Deal 2 damage to anyone you shove
• Take 25% less damage from all forms of melee including ‘monster claws’
• You can punch burrowed monsters to reduce their burrow energy

• Footsteps are much quieter
• Don’t trip acid bombs, void bombs, or parasite eggs
• Trip-mines can not detect you at all
• No thermal footprint
• Investigator can not track footprints when you’re suspicious

Even more confusing with split up perks. going to be fun writing this!

Personal ranking
Still a toss up until I get more experience from them. I am currently leading toward void beast for their silent footsteps.Fresh Meat

• Health regenerates a tiny bit faster
• Parasite egg will have a chance to deposit a parasite timebomb inside Spacemen

Acid Monster

• Parasite egg replaced with acid bomb
• Splash nearby enemies with acid blood when damaged
• Take 90% less toxic and acid damage
• Your alternate fire throws a ball of acid that explodes into an acid puddle

Void Beast

• Parasite egg is replaced with void bomb
• Ability to teleport a short distance
• Footsteps are silent in monster form
• Every time you enter monster form nearby spacemen are electrolocked

Crumerian Host

• Parasite egg is replaced by hatchery
• As the hatchery levels up, more Drones can spawn from it
• Drones might attack you

Corpse Lord

• Parasite egg is replaced by zombification egg
• Parasites will convert spacemen into zombies
• Parasite can still deposit a parasite timebom
• Corpse-eat cool down is shorter
• Remains of body are completely hidden when you eat a body

Personal ranking
1. Lockdown
2. Claws Upon Claws
3. Noctunal

• Increased movement speed and claw damage when a power outage is active
• Generators take longer to come off cooldown after a power outage
• Able to shut the power off more frequently

• Increased jump height in monster form
• Claws deal +2 damage
• Increased damage to doors and sentry turrets
• Ability to dodge while airborne

• Locks all unlocked, unwelded, unbroken doors in the enitre map
• Gained damage resistance when activated

Personal ranking
1. Chitin
2. Toxic Ink
3. Fluid Sac

• Upon taking lethal damage all human health will go into monster health
• Can no longer disguise as a spaceman
• Deal 3+ additional claw damage

• Armored shell regenerated when eating corpses
• When armor is active monster takes 20% less damage
• Corpse with antibodies perk will only give half armor
• Armor can break and will not heal back

• Every time you transform a toxic cloud will be emited
• Toxic cloud obscures name recognition as well as vision
• Toxic cloud will damage spacemen inside of it

Personal ranking
1. Patience
2. Membrane
3. DecoyExplanation: being able to replenish monster energy without changing takes the cake for me. Decoyd are useless. Stun grenades and other traps are useful in certain scenarios.

• Disguise energy drains much slower
• Using health stations completely refills your disguise energy
• Your remote arm is almost invisible (for turning off power)
• Vent appears unoccupied when you enter it
• Make less noise when breaking colorblind virus
• Your burrow energy decays 50% slower

• Health stations do not treat you differently
• Immune to stun grenades
• Do not appear on thermals or map scanners
• Not detected by tripmines while disguised
• See the health of nearby Spacemen

• Decoy travels forward making fake sounds and attacks
• Decoy will trigger doors, teleporters, security cameras, and tripmines
• Decoy will expire if it takes too much damage

Because I just want to get this done I will add my rankings for now. Explanations might come later.

Good

• Cultist
• Pock
• Janitor

Depends

• Warden

Bad

• Soldier
• Recruit

Utility

1. Welder
2. Springy Step
3. Oxygen Filter

1. Antibodies
2. Blast Shield
3. Magnetic Boots

1. Brawny
2. Nimble
3. Key card