Your biggest Starfield questions, answered (FAQ)

The city has a great deal to offer. StarfieldYou may want to live as a criminal or build spaceships, but you can also be a good person who travels through the universe. You can easily get confused and lost with all of the choices.

We have compiled the most common questions that we received both before and after starting. Starfield We answered them (to the extent of our ability) in this section. We even pulled some questions and answers from our launch day AMA — which is more expansive and has more niche questions — so you should check that out, too.


What’s Starfield about?

The story begins with you as a miner in space who becomes involved with an organization searching for mysterious artifacts. This leads to all sorts of other strange and unnatural events. We don’t want to spoil things for you, so all you need to know is that you are just a miner who is looking for some precious artifacts around the galaxy.

Starfield – Is it more like Skyrim, Fallout or both?

There is definitely more to like SkyrimIt’s like Fallout, only with the shooting. (There’s no V.A.T.S or shooting assist like in the Fallout series.)

What’s the latest on Starfield?

It’s actually quite good. Bethesda shooters aren’t exactly known for being butter-smooth, and while it’s not as precise as, say, Halo InfiniteThe first-person shooter in Starfield is akin to a mid-tier Xbox 360 shooter — aka, perfectly passable.

Starfield is a Bethesda game. Do I have to love Bethesda to enjoy it? Do I have to like Starfield?

Starfield is, through and through, a Bethesda game — a staggeringly large scale RPG that focuses more on creating a sense of place than anything else. If you’ve bounced off the studio’s previous games, you’ll likely tire of Starfield too. It’s true that the game is reminiscent of NASA in mid-century, but those vibes will only take you so far.

an assault rifle, a flight manual, a sandwich, and other sundry objects sitting on a desk in Starfield

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What is the time required to beat Starfield

If you’re curious about how long it takes to beat Starfield’s main campaign, a few of us at Polygon have completed all of the story missions in 20 hours. But it’s tough to say when you’d ever be “done” with StarfieldThe game is a mess of random missions, faction quests and exploration. Bethesda’s Pete Hines told Xbox On he’s 165 hours in his most recent playthrough yet claims he hasn’t remotely scratched the surface.

Starfield – Can You Be an Alien?

No, visually you are not able to play as an alien or cool creature in the same manner that you could in Skyrim. You You can also read about how to get in touch with us.Alien DNA is an option you can choose when creating a character.

Is Starfield a game with a great deal of crafting?

You can unlock other items by completing research and building different workbenches. The game takes about a minute to complete. Useful InformationWork and an Lottery TicketsIt takes a lot of skill points, however, to create something as valuable as medical packs. Ammo is not a craftable item.

Starfield has romance?

There are four confirmed romance options available, all of which are members of Constellation, and even if you don’t want to commit to any single character, all of their respective companion quests can be fully explored.

Does Starfield’s enemy level scale with yours?

The quick answer is no, not as far as we’ve seen. Early on, you can run into enemies of high levels. Starfield We were not at the right level for most of the story. Some main missions had enemies ranging from level 1 to level 36 — which can really catch you by surprise if you don’t quicksave often. Still, there was never an enemy so high-leveled that we couldn’t take them out while 10-15 levels under.

A pilot in a cockpit in Starfield

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Can I build my house in outer space?

Yep. Well, you can BuyHouse in Space It is possible to build a house in space. StartseiteIf you choose the Dream Home trait, then your house will be a dream home.

What happens if you die in Starfield?

If you die in Starfield, your body will pathetically ragdoll onto the ground and you’ll reload from your last save. If you want to be in tricky situations, it’s best to save often (and use quicksaves).

You can build your own ship in Starfield.

No. You can only use the ship builder at a spaceport. If you want to know more about this, please contact us.You can use a vessel you own. You have to start with a preexisting ship and can’t build one from the ground up.

Starfield has laser guns?

Starfield The following is a list of the most popular ways to contact us start you off with “ballistic” weapons (guns that use metal bullets, just like ours do, but just look kinda sci-fi), but you will Laser weapons will be available in the future. These aren’t exactly Star Wars blasters, and adhere more to Starfield’s hard sci-fi aesthetic than you’d maybe want. It’s more like you’re shooting light out of an oblong battery with a trigger and a scope, but it’s still pretty cool.

What is the cost of a Starfield lightsaber?

Speaking of Star Wars, it’s absolutely understandable to want a lightsaber or some kind of laser sword in your space game. While we’ve found a great space sword, it isn’t the only one. Starfield, it’s made of metal. Sure, it wouldn’t be surprising if Bethesda hid a super powerful lightsaber-like weapon as an easter egg somewhere in the game, but we haven’t found it yet.

What is the importance of completing Starfield’s main quest?

There are some important gameplay features tied to the main story quest, so you’ll want to do it first, or at least hit a certain point in the game before you start running off to do side quests. (You’ll know when you get there.)

A promotional screenshot of New Atlantis in Starfield.

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What are the skills and points of skill in Starfield?

You gain a skill point every time you level up, but you can’t just spend them all willy nilly. There are several skill trees and, as skill trees usually work, you can’t just grab the stuff at the end of the tree without grabbing a few along the way.

You can also use skill points to upgrade your skills several times, but you’ll have to complete little missions for each skill before you can move it up a rank. For example, to upgrade your Ballistics skill, you’ll need to kill a bunch of enemies using a gun.

New Game Plus is there?

Yes, Starfield features a New Game Plus mode, and it’s — no spoilers here — absolutely wild. Some players who’ve finished the game suggest mainlining the You can also read more aboutNew Game Plus is the place where the game really begins. Some say you should play the game like a Bethesda classic. What’s our suggestion? What is our suggestion?


Please feel free to send us any additional questions. We will do our best to answer them! The game is huge and there’s a lot we haven’t gotten to yet, but we’ll do our best.

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