MeinMMO author Dariusz Müller has thought about what he could have done better after over 120 hours in Starfield and has written down 5 suitable tips for you.
Starfield offers you plenty of options to spend your time in space and accumulate countless hours of gameplay. You can largely decide for yourself how you play and what you do when.
But not every decision made while playing such a powerful game as Starfield is a good one. Therefore, I will summarize 5 lessons I have learned over time in Starfield.
Spend more credits on weapons and ammunition
In Starfield, you earn a ton of credits throughout the game. Whether through quests, selling loot, or completing bounty missions, you will find ways to make money.
What I found out in my first playthrough of Starfield is that I spent way too little money on weapons and ammunition. I wasn’t weak or out of ammo; my problem was that I didn’t use really fun weapons for a long time.
For example, we talked in the editorial office, but also among friends, about the best weapons in Starfield and I had to realize that I don’t actually own many of the highly praised firearms.
Some I didn’t want to buy out of greed, others I sold because the ammunition was too expensive. So, I went around all the time with cheap guns I found on dead enemies and used the ammo they had in their pockets.
That’s annoying because the gunplay in Starfield can be really fun. So, feel free to buy different weapons, test them out, and don’t hesitate to spend credits to have enough ammunition for a cool rifle.
Build an outpost earlier
If you want to buy expensive weapons and ammunition, you obviously need a lot of credits. With the construction of an outpost, you can create a solid source of resources early on.
I waited several hours during my first playthrough before I built an outpost for the first time. At first, I wanted to experience action, then explore different worlds, and generally, my outpost should be located on one of the best planets in Starfield.
When I then saw how individual players built entire cities in Starfield and discovered that outposts can automatically farm resources, I was annoyed.
All those hours could have been used by the outpost to farm resources. Resources that I could have later used or sold for the construction of additional outposts. I wasted time and learned that, for example, a plutonium farm is a way to make money quickly.
Organize a ship for fighting rather than a freighter
I admit, I used the Frontier for way too long – that is the ship we received from Constellation at the beginning of the game. Sure, I upgraded it for over 200,000 credits and I thought it looked really cool, but it was still terrible.
There were just space battles against hostile factions where I was mercilessly outmatched – even though Bethesda deliberately made the AI of enemy ships dumb.
My problem was that I had set the focus on shipbuilding wrong. My Frontier should look cool, provide plenty of space for crew members, and have a large cargo capacity.
Eventually, I realized that due to a lack of skills, I couldn’t take as many crew members with me as my ship had space for. Additionally, only unused resources and unnecessary junk lay in my cargo hold.
The worst part is that there are good free ships in Starfield that I simply didn’t use. If I had left my freighter-converted Frontier as it was and instead flown the small Razorleaf, ship battles would have been much more fun for me.
Read comics distributed on planets and in spaceships
I realized early in the game that most of the lootable stuff is worthless junk that I shouldn’t carry around. Especially notes and many books are of no use, I thought. Wrong again.
Some books are not just for reading background stories (which can be very interesting) or for shaping 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, another reduces your CO₂ consumption, and the next increases your damage with rifles.
Pay close attention to whether a book grants you a permanent bonus before carelessly leaving the paper trash behind. By the way, you don’t have to keep the books – reading once and tossing them away is sufficient.
Take notes
Take notes so you can find important or interesting places again! This isn’t a problem I personally have, but one I have experienced with friends and have often seen on Reddit and Twitter.
Where is Neon again? On which planet did you say there is tungsten? Do you remember where I built my outpost? Can you tell me in which system the moon “Adraphon” is? – I could go on with such questions forever.
Many players apparently have a problem finding certain places on the star map. If you have problems with your sense of orientation in space, then take notes somewhere about where to find the most important locations.
Especially interesting are planets with important cities, plenty of useful resources, or special spaceship dealers.
If you want to know how to move significantly faster on a planet, check this out: Starfield: A trick allows you to fly faster with the jetpack and is perfect for exploring planets
