After completing The Precinct's tutorial and getting your first character level, you'll gain upgrade points to improve your capabilities in various ways. You can use these to increase your max health, raise your ammo capacity, or even learn how to steal cars.
With so many upgrade options, figuring out which to unlock first can be tough. Let's dive into some of The Precinct's best upgrades so you can start on the right foot and make your playthrough easier.
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How to spend Upgrade Tokens in The Precinct
Once you complete The Precinct's tutorial and obtain your first upgrade point, you can spend it by pressing U on keyboard, the View Button on Xbox controller, or the Touchpad on PlayStation. If you're on console, these buttons will initially bring you to your map, letting you scroll through your menu options until you reach Upgrades.
In the Upgrades menu, you'll find four skill trees—Physical, Combat, Policing, and Vehicle. Let's check out each one and our recommendations for which to invest skill points into.
Best upgrades in The Precinct
Overall, the best upgrades to focus in The Precinct is the Physical skill tree. In particular, you'll want to grab the following upgrades first:
- Max Health +
- Timed Breath
- Max Stamina +
- Fast Recovery
- Max Health +
Physical skill tree
These upgrades increase your maximum health, stamina, and recovery for both stats, making it easier to stay alive and chase down criminals throughout your playthrough. They'll also make the main storyline much easier. Since you're often on your feet and occasionally face criminals with guns and other lethal weapons, improving your survivability will make your entire campaign significantly easier.
However, I've left Bullseye out of this list since it isn't particularly helpful unless you often miss the Timed Breath prompt. You won't need Bullseye's slowing ability if you consistently hit the button prompt without missing. If you struggle with this minigame, though, you're safe to pick this up early on to help you regain stamina much more easily.
Other useful skills
Once you unlock a few skills from the Physical tree, you'll want to prioritize the following secondary upgrades:
- Ammo Belt
- Max Support Tokens +
- Intimidating Order
Ammo Belt is another important upgrade that'll increase your ammo capacity with all weapon types by 50 percent. Unless you have top-tier aim with your weapons, you'll often run out of ammo during main story mission fights, forcing you to retreat to a supply crate and risk getting gunned down by enemies. Increasing your capacity will help reduce how often you do this, making it much easier to stay alive. You can even take things a step further and progress further into the Combat skill tree to unlock the second Ammo Belt upgrade if you wish.
Max Support Tokens aren't the most useful upgrades initially, so you'll want to wait until later to unlock them. Nonetheless, if you're in the middle of a chase and want to pull off an officer and cruiser backup simultaneously or save up for a Riot Van later on, having these extra tokens will help.
More importantly, though, they lead into Intimidating Order, increasing your Call Out radius and effectiveness to make it easier for your character to pacify criminals while chasing them. While you can safely skip this if you avoid using Call Outs, having it as an option during encounters with several NPCs can save your life and make arrests in The Precinct much easier overall.
Achievement-related skills
Lastly, if you want to 100 percent The Precinct, you'll also need Reinforced Glass and Commandeer. Reinforced Glass by itself isn't super handy unless you frequently use cars as barriers in gunfights. Commandeer, however, is crucial for the We'll Pay for the Damage achievement of commandeering every vehicle type. Without this upgrade, you won't be able to unlock this trophy, preventing you from reaching 100 percent progress. Otherwise, if you're just trying to complete the main story, you can leave these for the mid to late game.
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