After more than 120 games in Starfield, MeinMMO author Dariusz Müller thought about what he could have done better and wrote down 5 suitable tips for you.
Starfield offers you lots of opportunities to spend your time in space and collect countless hours of play. To a large extent, you can decide for yourself how you play and what you do and when.
But not every decision you make when playing a game as powerful as Starfield is a good decision. That’s why I’m going to summarize 5 lessons that I learned over my time in Starfield.
Spend more credits on weapons and ammunition
In Starfield you earn tons of credits over the course of the game. Whether through quests, selling loot, or completing bounty missions, you’ll find ways to make money in Heist.
What I discovered on my first playthrough of Starfield is that I spent far too little money on weapons and ammo. It wasn’t that I was too weak or that I didn’t shoot enough, but my problem was that I didn’t use really fun weapons for a long time.
For example, we discussed the best weapons in Starfield in the editorial office, but also among our private friends, and I realized that I don’t even own many of the highly praised shooting irons.
Some I didn’t want to buy out of greed, others I sold because the ammunition was too expensive for me. So I spent the whole time running around with cheap guns that I found on dead enemies and also using the ammunition that they had in their pockets.
This is annoying because the gunplay in Starfield can be really fun. So feel free to buy different weapons, test them out and don’t be afraid to spend credits to have enough ammunition for a cool rifle.
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Build an outpost earlier
If you want to buy expensive weapons and ammunition, you will of course need tons of credits. By building an outpost you can create a solid source of resources early on.
On my first playthrough, I waited a few hours before building an outpost for the first time. First I wanted to experience action, then explore different worlds and generally my outpost should be located directly on one of the best planets in Starfield.
When I saw how individual players were building entire cities in Starfield and I found out that outposts can farm resources fully automatically, I was annoyed.
The outpost could have been farming resources all these hours. Resources that I could have later used to build more outposts or sell. I wasted time and learned that a plutonium farm, for example, is a way to make a lot of money quickly.
Better to organize a ship to fight than a freighter
I’ll be honest, I’ve been using the Frontier – the ship we get from the Constellation at the start of the game – for far too long. Sure, I rebuilt it for over 200,000 credits and I thought it looked really cool, but it still sucked.
There were simply space battles against enemy factions in which I was mercilessly outgunned – and Bethesda deliberately made the AI of opposing ships stupid.
My problem was that I misplaced my focus when building the ship. I wanted my Frontier to look cool, have tons of space for crew members, and have a large cargo capacity.
At some point I realized that due to a lack of skills, I couldn’t take as many crew members with me as would fit in my ship. In addition, there were only unused resources and unnecessary garbage in my cargo hold.
The bad thing is that there are good free ships in Starfield, some of which I simply didn’t use. If I had left my Frontier, which had been converted into a freighter, and flown the little Razorleaf instead, ship battles would have been much more fun for me.
Reading comics distributed on the planets and in spaceships
I discovered fairly early in the game that most of the stuff I could pick up was worthless junk that I shouldn’t carry around with me. Notes and lots of books in particular are of no use, I thought to myself. Wrong thought.
Some books are not just intended for reading background stories (which can be very interesting, by the way) or for designing the map. There are books in Starfield that look like comic books and give you a permanent boost to individual stats. One book increases your carrying capacity, the other reduces your CO₂ consumption, the next increases your damage with rifles.
Take a close look at whether it is a book that will give you a permanent bonus before you leave the paper waste lying around without a care in the world. By the way, you don’t have to keep the books – reading them once and throwing them away is enough.
Take notes
Take notes so you can find important or interesting places! This isn’t a problem I’ve had personally, but one I’ve experienced in my circle of friends and seen frequently on Reddit and Twitter.
Where’s neon again? Which planet did you say has tungsten? Do you remember where I built my outpost? Can you tell me in which system the moon is “Adraphon”? – I could continue the list of questions like these forever.
Many players seem to have a problem finding certain locations on the star map. If you have problems with your sense of direction in space, make notes somewhere about where you can find the most important places.
Planets with important cities, tons of usable resources or special spaceship traders are particularly interesting.
If you want to know how to move around a planet much faster, take a look here: Starfield: A trick lets you fly faster with a jetpack and is perfect for exploring planets