Which upgrades apply to my whole squad and which only to one Survivor?

Steps

1. Read what the pick is attached to. A weapon or ability upgrade belongs to the Survivor whose tree it came from; a bare stat is not attached to anyone.
2. Treat a stat power-up as a squad-wide pick. Two players in two different runs read a stat pick on screen and say it works for the entire team — one on weapon critical chance, one on weapon attack speed.
3. Notice when Infinite mode switches the offer. At that point the header reads select power-up, and one player narrates that the power-ups are now offered instead of skill-ups.
4. Check each Survivor's fifth rank before building a squad. The developer states that one node there applies to the whole team while that Survivor is present.

Requirements / Limits

• The team-wide Rank 5 passive is conditional on that Survivor being present. That is the developer's own wording, not an inference.
• One concrete instance of the node is on camera: reading the Ranger's tree, a player reaches text stating that while the Ranger is on the team, Luck is increased by 10.
• The same read-through reports that every Survivor received the new tier, so each grants a bonus specific to them — the example given is Pyro granting maximum HP.
• No source publishes how a team-wide stat pick is applied across Survivors, so whether it lands at full value on each is unknown.

Common Mistakes

• Passing on a stat power-up because it looks small next to a weapon upgrade. The stat pick is multiplied across the squad; the weapon upgrade is not.
• Expecting a Survivor's team-wide passive to keep paying out when that Survivor is benched. The developer ties it to the Survivor being present.
• Carrying an Infinite-mode habit into a normal run. Infinite offers power-ups where a normal run offers skill-ups, so the balance of team-wide against personal picks is not the same in both.
• Assuming everything on a Survivor's own tree is personal to them. At least one node on every 1.0 tree is not.

Sources Checked

• Video walkthrough · accessed 23 August 2026Kosh Gaming — three-hour 1.0 session from a new account

  Uploaded 19 August 2026 on a 1.0 build. Three hours across several runs by a player who says he last touched the demo, so first-encounter reactions to in-run pickups are narrated rather than assumed. Machine captions.

• Video walkthrough · accessed 23 August 2026DeepSpaceMatt — retail 1.0 run

  Uploaded 22 August 2026, two days after release, on the retail build. Reads several in-run item tooltips aloud, including the flashlight and a magnet upgrade. Machine captions.

• Video walkthrough · accessed 23 August 2026OHRye — 1.0 release session with a full Ranger tree

  Uploaded 19 August 2026 on a 1.0 build; the creator narrates the release on camera. A 51-minute session whose value here is a slow read-through of the Ranger skill tree, including her team-wide node and her badges. Machine captions.

• Developer changelog · accessed 23 August 2026Full Release — Version 1.0

  Developer changelog, 20 August 2026, re-read in full on 23 August 2026 for the Camp, mission, Friendship, Torment and achievement entries, and again on 24 August 2026 for its item content — the 21 new item names, the two re-pointed achievement rewards, and the end-screen fix that names the max rank.

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