🚨 13 HUGE Mistakes To Avoid In Starfield! (Fix #1 Right NOW!)

[@HackTheMinotaur]

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[@therealjakenbake]

Big Mistake NUMBER 1: NOT SLEEPING! You get an easy 20 minute long +10% bonus to experience gained simply by sleeping in a bed. 1 hour is enough. It doesn't increase for sleeping longer, but it's easy to do if you have a bed on your ship. Don't forget to get that well rested bonus!

[@calamorta]

I'm always doing that for the exp and to save the game in case of crashes lol

[@nolgroth]

Plus, you save yourself a MedPack or two.

[@BrentDnD]

Every time I leave my ship, I stop by my bed and have a little makeout session with my spouse. It's especially important to do before completing a major quest.

[@jandro8370]

Finally romances Andreja. For that u get %15 xp when u sleep and she then tells u how much of a beast u were in bed. Plus craft some alien tea for another %2.

[@williamwinder5011]

That just seems like a waste of time.

[@zacharyforeal]

My grandpa use to collect wooden mallard ducks. I am following in his footsteps via starfield. I love that the duck quacks when you pick it up.

[@JadedEvild0er]

The Plushie... creature toys also make noises when you pick them up, it's a very cool touch.

[@Gravedigger933]

if you pick up weapons off bodies, you get the ammo that was left in the weapon. If they didn't fire a shot you get the full mag.

[@tunin6844]

I have a slightly different take on picking up things! Pick up everything that has very low mass, such as darts (there are different colors), individual playing cards, white and black board game pieces (there are several with different names but the same model), etc. When you unlock commerce, you have to buy/sell a certain number of "unique" items to unlock the next rank. I use my stash of low mass junk items to give me a head start into each tier of the commerce skill. Once commerce is leveled, then it isn't worth messing with anymore.

[@emberphoenix2922]

Very great tip! I was absolutely astonished at first when I noticed different styles of "foam cups" "coffee cups" bowls etc. Count as individually unique items. Suuuuper helpful for leveling commerce way quicker than expected!

[@saiyanwarrior5540]

I agree...

[@hashsquatch328]

Thank you papa

[@xXCursedWorgenXx]

just capture any pirate ship you come across and you'll have your "Unique" stuff from the junk you'll end up with in your cargo hold.

[@smilinirish75]

The perk requires to buy or sell unique items. The unique requirement resets with each challenge. Go to a weapons merchant, buy one of each bullet until you rank up, then sell back each bullet. Do the same with resources at a Trade authority. I maxed commerce out in no time.

[@chrisdcrus5404]

Quick tip that I learnt from fallout 76 regarding levelling space suit/weapon crafting skills. Instead of modifying your items with different mods that uses various resources just choose to update with the cheapest possible modification then switch back and forth between NO MODS and this will still increase the skill amount for it 😃

[@Jasondog375]

This doesn't work, it specifically says you need to install x UNIQUE mods, meaning a different one each time, it resets each tier

[@chrisdcrus5404]

@@Jasondog375 ok my mistake, perhaps I'm thinking of another skill since I did do it a while ago with one of the skills like this so can't remember the exact one EDIT: I have just checked the description for leveling up the skills: Spacesuit design/weapon engineering and it says "craft X amount weapon mods or "craft X amount Spacesuit, helmet, pack mods" I have tested it and they don't need to be UNIQUE. The skill that you need to craft UNIQUE items is research methods which states to level the skill " craft 5 UNIQUE food, drugs, weapon mods or equipment mods"

[@ermagherd1204]

You can take cool looking miscellaneous items back to your outpost, drop them, then enter build mode & you can pick them up & place them anywhere, rotate them, etc…I’ve got my home base outpost decorated right up

[@HBosse90]

Be careful there’s a glitch going around that deletes everything in an outpost after decorating. Was a sad day. I spent hours to lose it all. Every item in the outpost that wasn’t nailed down was just gone.

[@ermagherd1204]

@@HBosse90 yeah I’ve noticed some items begin sinking into things like a chair, etc…last night I placed 2 mannequins at my outpost to place 2 sets of armour on…the Mantis & Mercury sets…5min later they were gone. Just disappeared can’t find them anywhere.

[@TheBloodyPoint]

This is a really dumb question but how do you enter Build mode while inside a structure, such as a hab in an Outpost? Thanks.

[@ermagherd1204]

@@TheBloodyPoint same exact way you do while outside a structure. I don’t understand how that’s a question lol maybe I’m the one here missing something? There’s no different way dependent on being in or outside a building

[@TheBloodyPoint]

@@ermagherd1204 I must be doing it the wrong way, by interaction with the outpost beacon, and once in that build mode, I'm not able to interact with the airlock door to open it.

[@joelveach1849]

Pick up all weapons and then drop them if you are having ammo issues.

[@mlmii1933]

Something worth considering is that the humble cutter becomes one of the most powerful weapons once you rank Lasers(4) due to how burning stacks when combined with the insane RoF cutters have.

[@runnergo1398]

And there's also the better cutter with robot bonus damage that you can get during the Barret quest.

[@Striderspawn]

For weapon modding, just carry 1 equinox and just add and remove the cover repeatedly. Cost near zero on resources, and you can craft 30 mods in minutes. Rinse and repeat. You don't need to pick up a ton of weapons. Or suits for that matter. Adding and removing is all you need to do.

[@ignoranceisbliss9993]

For weapon mods if you have enough of the same resource you can just add an attachment and take it off and attach it back over and over and that counts towards the total you need.

[@bannankev]

Use a pistol lower level one so the resources needed aren’t as bad either. 😂 cheez it all day long 😆

[@knoxjon89]

I did the same thing 😂 one of the reasons i love bethesda games is figuring out little mini cheeses for stuff like that. In Skyrim/Oblivion i used to enter sneak mode, get in a dark corner near a stationary enemy, and rubber band my analog stick to continue sneak walking in the corner while watching youtube and just loved every time it would let me know ‘your sneak skill has increased’ 🤭🤣

[@adamschulz9719]

That’s what I did to rank up everything lol.

[@EnycmaPie]

10:40 Don't need to do this. To grind out the skill requirement, just switch the mods around on the same weapon. Something like change the long barrel and short barrel back and forth and you can easily get the skill requirement grind done.

[@kc9937]

If you don't remove the tracking on research projects before completing them you will be unable to untrack them for the entire play through.

[@michealnelsonauthor]

Oh crap. Seriously?

[@kc9937]

@@michealnelsonauthor yep, iron is tracked until ng+ on mine.

[@daniwanicki]

Upgrading my ship early made a big difference. Quickly upgraded my skills to fly class B ships and made a custom ship with a 3000 capacity cargo, 600 shield, good weapons, all crafting stations. Makes looting less of a hassle and space combat a whole lot more fun. Also makes managing resources between outposts easier. I would save about 150,000 to 200,000 to build a good class B ship from scratch with the best parts. Nova Galactic is my favorite style, it has the bridge with stairs so you don't have to use ladders.

[@JesusKreist]

11:26 Tracking ingredients is important. But be sure to do it from one point for materials and reevaluate it every now and again. Thing is you can't *UNTRACK* ingredients without the originating menu. Meaning if you tracked Milk for a research project early on and finish that research project shortly later Milk stays tracked forever. Reason: You can view past research projects, but you can't track it's resources anymore. Similar for weapon modifications. If you tracked materials to build a supressor for your solstice right after you had access to a workbench you can't *UNTRACK* those materials by using the workbench and select the supressor for a maelstrom. They are the same, but the game does not care about that. You need the solstice to actually get rid of it.

[@JBob08]

I went from excited to annoyed real quick when I learned I could earmark parts I needed, but then couldn't remember where I marked them to unmark them.

[@adamschulz9719]

Oh wow thanks for this tip!

[@MansaMusa50]

luckily I knew 99% of those but I loved the transfer option to see full spec of picked up items whilst also pausing the battle. that will be very useful.

[@skodengaming2477]

Tip 3, picking the weapons up without looking first actually gives you the ammo that was in them. So even if they are trash I take the few seconds to pick it up then drop it.

[@skodengaming2477]

Also it is easy to drop them in menu as you just go to "recent picked up" tabs so you don't have to scroll around

[@MansaMusa50]

nice. good advice.

[@DepletedUrbranium]

WHAT??!

[@Gravedigger933]

12:20 You will only get the arrows if there is a clear path.

[@NetraAmorosi]

True, though more often then not the path will be clear.

[@Ibethepappy]

There are absolutely items that you can miss and you won’t be able to go back and get them in the same game. Take your time, explore.

[@docburn6189]

My error in Starfield according to this channel is i dont wanna play RAID Shadow Legends... F. That shit..

[@SpaceMike3]

On the Frontier ship don't delete the all in one hab. It's unique and can't be found anywhere else

[@tittumsmcsprinkles9020]

#2 is a regret for me. I looted everything at first just to rank up commerce but it was just unnecessary. You just need to steal ships, all that misc crap ends up in the cargo once you register the ship and it saves you the trouble of manually looting crap for commerce rankup.

[@ivanDaThug]

Outposts are the thing i should have got into earlier. Now i have an outpost i can store all resources for crafting and research and the gear to add mods to for leveling. So I don't need a big cargo space on my ship, so my ship is light, agile and deadly. The fast travel on planets and between planets mean that its really easy to stay light. I only pickup gear with a 1k to weight ratio for trade, ammo, meds and crafting materials. oh and plants and toys for decoration..

[@foo-ti5oi]

Go to the lodge, go down stairs, look behind the research table and you'll see a small storage box. It has unlimited storage and is surrounded by all crafting bench. By far the best place to store all resources

[@Dsrgreyy]

I disagree with the loot bodies method. Most of my ammo and money comes from taking everything on the body and selling it I also find it easier to compare parts with the full ship builder vs the upgrade menu Modding before selling is a great tip. In addition to leveling the skills it also raises the value of the item making you more money when selling

[@BrentDnD]

I did this early game. But at some point, it's just not worth it to pick anything up that doesn't have a 3,000/1 credit to mass weight ratio. Spacesuits are very deceiving. They seem like they might be worth a lot, but they aren't really worth much of anything at all in terms of their mass. The only time I pick up a spacesuit is if it looks like I might want to take it with me to possibly mod it for my own personal use. Handguns are generally the most value per mass.

[@xSoulhunterDKx]

@@BrentDnDif you get better weapons and play on a higher difficulty you basically get 5-10k creds or more per body. For me, it’s literally not worth the bullshit items later on that are worth only a few creds each. Early on, this can level up your commerce, but when you max that out it’s not worth it anymore. For me I basically only get advanced and refined, or calibrated weapons. I have a cargo hold of like 6-7 thousand. I literally don’t use any stims, boosts or whatever and can take care of everything the Game throws at me. My loadout basically consists of only legendaries at this point, mod to the max. I kill Everything in a few shots. Just Level ship skills, commerce and other combat skills.

[@EivorOfTheAbyss]

@@BrentDnDI’ve been picking spacesuits for my mannequins at this point for display

[@stevenfulcher7152]

If you don't loot absolutely everything, it is really easy to miss credsticks and digipicks, and skill magazines. OCD for the win!

[@mitmon_8538]

If you go into your keybinds (no idea if this is an option on Console/controller) and bind another key to the alternative column of the Jump action (I used left CTRL instead of Space bar) and use that to boost, your boost will be SO much stronger.

[@MuNky1022]

Not stronger just different: instead of up you are going forward, great for traversing distance.

[@MackMillions]

When looting keep the high end garbage for house and outpost decorations don’t just leave that expensive desk ornament there 😂

[@michealnelsonauthor]

IKR?!?!! I imagined I could gift my companion cool stuff… Nope. Doh. I imagined I could decorate my starship… Nope. I imagined I could build & decorate a cool luxury house…. Nope. Doh. But at least I can place the collection of cool lamps & geodes, etc in my hab in my crafting outpost. Doh.

[@licentiaplaythrough7663]

if you want to max out your commerce very fast. GRAB ALL THE JUNK. the lower the value the better. take to a trade kiosk and sell it all the skill is based on volume sold not value and you can max it in one run

[@HackTheMinotaur]

Nice tip!

[@atomosvrial1708]

As you upgrade your ship its cargo gets filled with junk that was the clutter before you upgraded just sell that stuff instead of picking up everything.

[@sordel5866]

My advice would be to think as early as possible about developing skills that will help in NG+. Crafting weapon mods is almost useless in your first run but it's really convenient in subsequent runs. The same with the scanning skills or the cargo hold increase. Remember: unless you farm XP, skill points come slowly later in the game, so you can't put everything off to the future.

[@TheHighborn]

Leveling is not that bad. Pick your preferred gun, go to a high level system ( like Fermi 3, or something) and cause an ecological disaster to local fauna.

[@dr3w_23]

If I do ng+ will it reset all quests I’ve already done ships built and stuff like that?

[@sordel5866]

@@dr3w_23 Yes, you start with a suit & a ship and nothing else, except for your skills & powers. So having the skills you need to succeed in this new universe is important.

[@dr3w_23]

@@sordel5866 thank you

[@TheHighborn]

@@dr3w_23 yes

[@wmgthilgen]

I'm over 74 year's old, and during a previous point in my life, I received training in regard's to staying alive during a combative situation. In which someone(s) is attempting for various reason's to kill you. In this particular video game, unlike other's I've previously played. If and when one find's them selves in a situation in which NPC's are trying to kill you. Taking "COVER" and "WAITING" will eventually cause them to make them selves available to easily being killed. They will eventuall if you "WAIT". Come to you, which then gives you a great advantage. There's a reason "TOD" himself states. "TAKE YOUR TIME"!

[@nolgroth]

The focused beam is also the best weapon if you run into a Terrormorph on Kreet, during the tutorial. Follow Obi-Wan's advice and get to high ground, sacrifice Vasco as a distraction, and then lay into the beast with your focused Cutter beam. It will take a few times recharging and the TM can still hit you with its spit attack, but it is so much faster than the Maelstrom or Grendel that you've probably picked up. In general, that focused beam is one of the strongest early game weapons anyway. I typically use it frequently until about level 15 or so, when it finally starts getting outclassed by loot drops. Also good for clearing mines, cutting the pins on the emergency access doors, and cutting your way through some limited types of rubble.

[@Dennys854]

Also on your first planet after clearing off the pirate attack, there is Heller's Mining Laser in a case that is a better version

[@GremlinSciences]

Well, better in that it hurts robots and turrets more.@@Dennys854 Heller's Cutter is otherwise identical to any other Cutter.

[@joshuacr]

​@@Dennys854I keep missing this. Stupid question, but are you able to mod this?

[@Dennys854]

@@joshuacr I have no idea. I haven't got the game yet (want to but Insufficient PC power/xbox power). Just watching all the vids and drooling.

[@MrDavePed]

To unlock higher weapons upgrade levels you only need to modify (and unmodify) one single weapon over and over again. Find the cheapest modification available to you and just spam it until the next level unlocks.

[@BamaChad-W4CHD]

The newest patch dropped today. One thing it added was being able to eat food without picking it up. I thought it was stupid at first but I realized I have actually been using food for buffs constantly now. I used to just ignore all food. It just wasn't worth the hassle of picking it up then finding it in the bottom of my inventory. I'm pleasantly surprised

[@Groovnstar]

I tested if there was a cover peeking function within the first hour of playing. That was just an instinct I think most gamers have.

[@vinceely2906]

You can attach weapons to the bottom of the bay on the Frontier at the start. It can free up space elsewhere.

[@joshuacr]

I consistently forget this on new playthroughs, thank you!

[@ObiWanShinobiSon]

You don't need to craft different weapons mods on different weapons to level the skill. Same with the spacesuit skill. Just mod a cheap attachment, then mod a no mod. Just keep switching back and forth until you reach your goal.

[@harvbegal6868]

Got some Jake's beer in my inventory. Its funny to me to down a bottle of beer before running into a combat zone.

[@brianwaterman8185]

PSA, only sell your planet/moon survey data to Vladimir on the Eye. He pays more than any other vendor ive seen. Not just a little more, basically double from what I can tell. Wish i knew that sooner in my playthrough.

[@bealight5141]

Todd Howard watching this like "Oh shit theres a cover system?!?"

[@HackTheMinotaur]

😂

[@joshuacr]

It just works.

[@krzysztofjaniszewski3087]

Nice stuff i did not know few things myself but some of thing you say are only good if you do not use your powers, moment you start using powers game change and become super easy, I'm lvl 128 and playing +11 game and i play only on very hard mode and this are my few tips: for combat, start using Phased Time ( you get that once you finish your main story and at lvl 7+ you can be in slow mode constantly) with this power you will kill anything in game for example on +11 on very hard lots of mobs will one shot you so you have to use powers. Untill you get this power next one very good is Anti-gravity Field very powerful against multiple targets and you get it early in a game. Harvesting resources its way easer with powers too Elemental Pull is one to go for and from lvl 4 you can spam this ability, what it dose it collects all resources around you in a big area in one click. you will fill up your inventory full of resources in like a 2 minutes. plus will collects stupid toxic stuff without you getting some sickness. Next one its something you did not mansion at all but i know many have problem with, stealth missions again there is power you can get Void Form even at lvl 1 will let you be in front of NPC and they will not see you as it make you invisible. Making all stealthy missions a breeze. One more thing for space combat if you have problems with winning fights just install: 3x Obliterator 250MeV Alpha Turrets 2x Obliterator 250MeV Alpha Beams 2x Exterminator 95MeV helion Beam this weapons are extremly good and have over 4000 range so everything will die before it get to you

[@deltadrag00n19]

In Fallout 4 you could lean out of cover when aiming, but not everyone was aware of it. Personally, I would have loved it if junk items were made with crafting components like in Fallout 4. It's strange that there are a few thousand junk items that can be sold for very little and have no other use, especially with the base building feature. Regarding looting, I only pick up items that are worth 5000 and above for weapons and armour. Ovcorse in higher level areas, the items can have more add-ons, making them more valuable. Weightless items like ammo, credits, and healing items are always picked up, but this is just my personal preference. Lastly the game doesn't provide much information about certain features, like the mining beam. Todd had mentioned that they wanted players to discover things on their own and share with others.

[@craighurley3405]

Very insightful. I'm only about 20.hours in and the crafting idea gets my juices flowing. I've learned most of the other ideas

[@SifiFan]

I learned it easier for me to use the 5 different unlimited capacity boxes in the lodge basement. I use one for items to be sold , one for suits, etc, 1 for guns. One for spare meds and the one next to the research station for resources. That box is connected to the research station.

[@tjman1095]

I actually noticed the cover system trying to shoot over crates and being pleasantly surprised i could shoot over my box/cover easily unlike in fallout 4

[@Jwalk9000]

One of my biggest beefs with the upgrades and leveling in this game, is that I'm at level 24 scratched any of the skills and I'm constantly just grinding to get levels so that I can actually improve something. I've maxed out all the skills and challenges I have already.

[@EldritchGod666]

You have to get out of scan mode to harvest any liquid or gas resources. The first few caves I went through I had scan mode on so I could see where the resources were and you have to be in this made anyway to use the mining laser. I found, though, that I couldn’t harvest any of the gas vents or liquid seeps until someone told me to turn off my scanner first. I would have thought this kind of information would have been part of the mining tutorial at the beginning of the game.

[@daspisch]

Also you could not open doors and containers which should be opened in scanner mode

[@DepletedUrbranium]

Of course I'm on the very last story mission before I discover this 😒

[@joshuacr]

It's still bugs me you can take environmental gas damage while in an actual space suit which is supposed to be sealed to the vacuum of space, but that's another discussion

[@rovers141]

I'm pretty sure it's a bug. It doesn't make sense that you can pick literally everything else in the game up in scan mode, except for gases and for some really odd reason, credsticks.

[@daspisch]

@@joshuacr those vapors damage your suit, and then you take a direct damage. But then suit do self repair magic XD

[@MuNky1022]

The first two Commerce levels require you to sell 75 and 150 unique items. This is where random junk collecting helps.

[@GreekoSuave]

If you only feel like playing with one weapon type, I suggest getting your weapon research to lvl 3. I was able to upgrade my basic Eon pistol to explosive rounds and it's become my workhorse weapon, and the ammo is really abundant, I never had less than 1500 rounds and have never bought any. If I go against something harder, I can switch to a my mag shot or solstice. Also, that upgrade means you can modify your companions weapons as well, and Sam Coe with an automatic rifle with explosive rounds and a grenade is amazing backup.

[@spud69g]

Easy cheap way for the mods, you don't need a new weapon. Just put on a short or long barrel then remove. Each time counts. It's not mod x unique weapons or x unique mods, it's just mod a weapon.

[@elliottjoffe145]

Looting guns, even the lower quality ones, gets you the ammo in the guns. Also, even lower quality guns have fairly high credits to weight units ratios, making them a good use of storage for making money.

[@MrDavePed]

You can craft multiple items at a time instead of mashing the craft button for each item. On xbox hold the left stick to the right and you will craft three at a time instead of one. When you want to only purchase or sell a few items from a large stack you can quickly navigate through the stack by using the left and right shoulder buttons on your controller.

[@BigNopes]

Probably the biggest tip anyone can get is pick skills that synergize, they exist across multiple categories, before trying to diversify. I've seen tons of people bogging down in spreading out their skills and then have a rough time, this applies to the exploration and crafting as much as it does combat. If you focus and synergize the skills, the XP and money rolls in consistently and you're not stuck in those awkward timings where you feel like you have nothing to do or those higher level boss mobs feel like bullet sponges. I would even argue its worth it to skip those "must have!1!!11!" skills and focus on getting some specialization going, this makes gaming life so much easier, and will make you feel better when you realize you didn't miss much by waiting to get lockpicking.

[@BigNopes]

I would also argue, don't pick anything up thats not needed, pick up weapons, ammo, and armor, then move on (maybe contraband if you're good at managing vendors). The time to money & xp ratio will go up significantly and before you know it, you're a millionaire and have more junk to sell than the vendors can afford. I don't even run with a companion anymore because they are useless once they aren't used to hold your junk. And don't forget to sell ammo, no vendor should be left with a single credit - to say you get 6.5mm CT every where and it isn't used for much of anything worth mentioning.

[@sandrahall3396]

I just figured out yesterday, by accident, that you can scan the moons orbiting a planet without leaving the planet and going to the moon. After you scan a planet (say a gas giant that has 5 moon’s orbiting it), you can swing the camera around and scan any within view, the ones on the on the other side of the planet, press back (B on Xbox) and move the camera to the next moon and scan. I wasted so much time on this or just ignored the moons because it was time consuming.

[@halfcirclehranch]

You got one wrong. You absolutely SHOULD pick up all weapons in the game. If you decide you don't want it drop it, but make sure to pick it up. When you pick up a weapon, any remaining ammo in the gun will be added to your inventory.

[@MolnarG007]

Early when low on ammo you laser cutter works on enemy too, x6 power/speed/damage when focused

[@diegotavares4768]

After some research about the game mechanics they don’t tell you and which is a huge improve. Maybe because you can only use this set on pc, is the horizontal jet pack boost. Just a alternative jump key and you a gtg.

[@daspisch]

On power level x i just highlighting all enemies with sense star stuff and after that constantly slowing time with phased time. Enemies on any difficulty are just melted in seconds without any fight PS Best way to collect minerals, liquids and gases is elemental pull x

[@kasper_429]

2:58 Why do people keep telling to not pick up everything? One of the earliest skills (besides boost pack training, if you didn't pick a background that has it already) that IMO is a MUST is Commerce! To level up Commerce you have to sell a big number of unique (different, no duplicates) items. It doesn't matter what you sell, so you might as well be picking up all the random free crap you can, and sell it to get credits and points into Commerce so that you can buy stuff for cheaper and sell for more credits. Level 4 of Commerce lets you buy stuff for 20% cheaper and sell for 25% more profit, so it's well worth it. I know you'll get overencumbered, but you won't die and it'll be worth it as soon as you can get to a vendor to sell all the stuff.

[@donaldcook7108]

You had issue with pistol ammo yet the 7.77mm ammo is quite plentiful and the Eon uses it. First play through the Eon is decently effective with the pistol certification skill. Both first and ng+ in rocking 10's of thousands of 7.77mm rounds. Also quite a few weapons vendors who's shops have 7.77mm ammo just to take off the walls not steal.

[@heinzamatic]

Pick up everything that's not nailed down, I average @25,000 credits everytime I do a bounty. With @ 2500 to 3000 in just misc. category. I'm always encumbered but it's not a big deal.

[@xdbag7259]

I recommend picking up every weapon that is dropped, even if you drop it later, they all have ammo.

[@tubirrr4569]

I only hunt for junk if I plan to use it as decor to my houses so I still waste ton of time looking for cool or uniq junk like funny mug, antiq item etc lol

[@DabuTV]

That cover system works only on 1st person?

[@mel-archivals4773]

I never truely figured out what the magnifying glass meant, although I think the game tried to tell me in the beginning. A nice collection of mis-steps.

[@seanthiar]

4:00 That is a mistake - you should pick up every weapon regardless of the stats. An enemy weapon is always loaded, but when you drop it you remove the magazine. That means if you pick up a weapon that has 50 bullets loaded and you drop it immediately after the 50 (weightless) bullets stay with you. That is especially important for weapons were the ammo is rare or that go very fast through ammo. A mistake you missed is not sleeping. First you get a XP bonus for sleeping and second if you are awake to long you get problems. Your view blurs, you miss more when shooting and you stagger more easily. Food and chems have a problem - they don't stack. If you eat something that gives you 3min 10% O2 and after it one that give you 2min 5% O2 you get only the last effect. Same with damage protection etc. Food items for healing are useless in my opinion. I only carry with me chems that help with ailments and that helps with stealth. Ship upgrades - Until you are lvl 60 you should upgrade your ship every few levels, because every new level gives you new upgrades. Don't use dozens of pieces to upgrade - just upgrade one item and remove the upgrade again and rinse and repeat. It is enough that you upgrade, you don't need to upgrade different items to count as an upgrade. And btw crafting is a nice tool for removing the 'stolen' mark - just give it a simple upgrade to the item and in the process the 'stolen' mark is removed. Mining laser - there is another thing many miss. Put 4 skill points into lasers and the mining laser is one of the best weapons in the game and you have it always available. Lvl 4 adds fire damage to laser and it stacks. Even high level enemies are down in a short time, because they get massive fire damage. If you have the laser from the constellation rescue mission you have even a bonus against robots. The only problem is the short working distance and the recharge time when there are more enemies.

[@Ben-zr4ho]

Sorry I guess I'm just an old grump now but these so called "common mistakes" that people who literally play video games for a loving keep pointing out... "If you shoot the hinges on the door one the place on the hinge where it says SHOOT HERE..." I mean come on. Have modern gamers become this coddled? Picking up everything and complaining about encumbrance? First Bethesda game? First western RPC period? I don't know... I just. 😢

[@Pansapistolas]

Cover also works for peeking over things. Squat down by a container or covered railing and when you aim youll slightly stand up and shoot over the object.

[@MrPackman45]

I feel like early combat skills are best utilized if you're pushing yourself to areas that are beyond your level, say doing the mantis quest might help to have a level into your favorite weapon or the one you have most ammo for

[@Draco.Invictus]

Early game, picking up everything is NOT useless if you are leveling up your Commerce skill. The challenge is to sell a metric butt-ton of items for the first time. The first time you sell a pen, it counts and the same goes for all the other useless stuff. You pick up enough stuff on Kreet alone to damn near get you through the first 2 ranks of the commerce challenges.

[@GremlinSciences]

It can also be good for leveling up Weight Lifting and Payload early on before you'd otherwise have enough inventory clutter, it can also help with Fitness and a few other skills as well (I used the CO2 damage from overencumbered sprinting to power-level Medicine) Because there's so much junk, you never need to look far to keep inventory weight up, but you also don't regret just dumping it anywhere because it's all basically worthless.

[@TheGreyBush420]

Cargo holds.... If you put items in storage boxes and weapons on waepon racks, then go modify your ship. All items will be moved to the ships cargo hold. My ships cargo is 900 something. Total contents in the cargo hold currently is over 6,000. Great for base building.

[@ChaosRaych]

I sold my cutter for credits almost immediately 😅 I thought well I'm not a miner anymore, I don't need this lol I picked up Heller's cutter a little later though

[@jefforious2000]

Guys this is an excellent amalgamation of tips. Seriously...all useful. This will help newbies a lot (hell at least 3 were new to me and immediately helpful) Cheers bro. Thanks

[@edwardjenner1742]

I could use a big help with ship upgrades im on xbox but how do i upgrade as all i het is materials into my ship hold not on the ship?? Any help would be gratefully accepted

[@bernhardbadenhorst3325]

Finally! A reason to download RAID! 🤣

[@BamaChad-W4CHD]

And am I tripping or did I not hear Lin at the beginning of the game one time tell the guy she is fussing at about "it's not a sledge hammer it's a laser" say "focus your beam" I've played the beginning multiple times and I have never heard her say it again. I must have imagined it?

[@climatecypher]

OMG these are so so useful and simple. ty

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

semi-automatic weapons do more damage than the fullyautomatic of the same version, as semi-automatic bullets all hit the target while fullyautomatic has a big miss chance, plus armor piecing ignores 30 percent of the armor without any skill.

[@Response1980]

Pick up every gun especially if you're low on ammo drop them later because when you pick them up it takes the ammunition out of the clip of the gun and puts it in your inventory 👍💪👌

[@harryhirsch2927]

You can train some of your pilot skills (laser/balistics/propulsion/shield/missiles/destroy ships) in the flight simulator in the mast.

[@szodrin]

I loot every weapon and just dump if I run out of space. Looting the weapon adds all the ammo from the clip so it's good for ammo.

[@SusannaSaunders]

Can anyone tell me the default mining laser aim button please? I didn't know this existed.

[@scrapsofwishender6458]

you can also get mining pages to increase your mining capabilities

[@CGhee135]

How do you get enemies to glow? Is it a mod or skill?

[@joshuacr]

It's a power

[@turakaisenvideot]

My biggest mistake was thinking legendary gear was better than common white quality. But after some testing after 50 hours or so I sold all my legendaries and just solely used any quality of weapons with 'Advanced' prefix. No amount of perks in legendary items without this prefix can match the damage of a common white Advanced weapon. Same applies to armor. Legendary doesn't really mean anything is Starfield.

[@NetraAmorosi]

Yea, the number of special effects determine it's rare/legendary status, 3 effects make it a legendary. Furious for weapons is probably one of the best ftw. (More damage with each consecutive hit).

[@Japit234]

So I found that when flying your ship if (on Xbox) when you hold rb and move your left stick it activates thrusters. Do you know what those thrusters are for?

[@JoeBezk]

Quick turns. More less on a dime

[@garru556]

Lateral thrusters for more maneuverability in combat. If I'm feeling like I'm being outclassed in an asteroid field I use those thrusters to dart behind the rocks and use them as cover You can also use them to keep your momentum and fly backwards at like max speed to shoot those pesky ships that like to get up in your tail

[@sneaky5141]

are you thick?

[@joshuacr]

Space bar on PC default

[@isaacmorris9823]

Throwing away the cutter is the biggest mistake I’ve made, I thought it was just a default weapon but uhhhh

[@miravlix]

You don't need to use cover to beat the game, stealth/cover is a SLOWER way to play the game, while it suits me, I don't see any reason to downplay that run and gun is a way better playstyle.

[@XDarkXThanatosX]

I would recommend never using the ship upgrade option. It is quick, but it doesn't show or give all the better upgrade options as it filters out many of them. One example is weapons that you can have 3 max and 4 max. it will only show the number that matches what you have. Everything else only shows the same brand/manufacturer. Using the fast upgrade ship option, is a mistake. More specifically to the example I mentioned; EM weapons. The best in the game has you equipping 4, the rest, you can only equip 2 to 3 so you won't know it's an upgrade and they won't appear on the list.

[@calixtoguzman1886]

I tried the cover thing when I first picked up the game. Didn't work. Is this a new thing?

[@CaffeinatedMongoose]

No. Just hang on the edge, behind any wall or low cover, tap aim and you'll pop out to the side or over the top take your shots. Let go of the aim button and you’ll pop back behind cover.

[@calixtoguzman1886]

@CaffeinatedMongoose So it's a toggle type of function? I was holding it. I'll try that out today, thanks!

[@joshuacr]

​@@calixtoguzman1886It's a hold down the button or key type of thing.

[@killacarks]

Without them arrows on the scanner I’d probably of given up this game lol

[@brianwalker7771]

The Security skill NEEDS to be upgraded in the game. The game has a few parts that require you to pick your way into an area with NO way around it. Elder scrolls and Fallout series always had some form of plan B if you lacked the skill so IF I had not already mastered it I would have had to go around the galaxy lock hunting in order to beat the game.

[@socaldayve]

I'm 100hrs in and didn't notice the taking cover option nor the way to charge the mining laser. Sheesh! p.s. I always refer to the scanner arrows as Clairvoyance Spell. 😁

[@sneaky5141]

how do you even manage to tie your shoelaces

[@davebriscoe1012]

By the nine's 😂😂

[@BrennonIsMilak]

As far as items go, I pick up any meds / chems, any resources I need of course, melee weapons, and any item with a ratio of 1000 credits per 1 weight or better

[@MrDavePed]

Loot ALL weapons as they contain additional ammo. Drop what weapons you don't want although keep what you can as weapons sell for decent credits.

[@Slowfoo]

For the crafting thing I just added and removed the cheapest mod for 1 item over and over... you dont have to do it on unique pieces.

[@bryandedon7459]

The easiest way to level up crafting is to install a cheap mod and then install the no mod and just do it back and forth how many ever times you need to in order to get to the next level. If you're playing on normal, there really isn't a need to upgrade combat skills. If you do level them up, I'd upgrade everything else first that you want. In early game, every weapon does 5 to 20 damage at most so those skill points you're putting in to them are only giving you 1 to 2 extra damage. Later on, when you get higher tier guns, those few points will increase the damage a good bit, but the AI is so bad you still don't really need them. I'll probably end up putting some in them once I get the rest of the skills I want. Ballistic is the way to go if you do want to put some points for damage. The vast majority of the guns are ballistics, so you can put 3 points in there and have 30% extra damage for 95% of the weapons. Laser, EM, and particle beam weapons got the shaft. It would be nice if you didn't really have to make that choice, but leveling up takes so damn long. Not to mention, there's 82 skills with 4 levels each. Thats 325 times you need to level up minus the 3 you already get at the start. I understand not wanting us to have every skill and to make it an actual choice, but most people who play this game will finish and be around level 40 to 50. There's so much stuff you're sacrificing bc of how long it takes to level up and how many times you would have to level up. The rate we level up should be 2 to 3 to be as fast, we should get 2 to 3 sskill points per level, or there should be a level cap but once you unlock a skill you just have to do the challenge and not use a skill point for the next tiers of the skill. I'm having a blast playing this game, but the more I think about it, the more I realize how many terrible design decisions went into it. This game needs a 20 gb quality of life update.

[@unknownel6174]

I’ve got a really good one for everyone 😅! When you’re trying to sneaking in a place you can breathe, TAKE YOUR FRIGGIN SPACE SUIT OFF 😵‍💫. I’m hearing so many ppl say sneaking is harder in this game. I see no difference in difficulty between this and Skyrim, once you take off that CLUNKY SPACE SUIT. Of course you’ll want to invest at least 2 points in sneak. I finished Ryujin (which is basically the thieves guild) at level 18 with 2 points of sneak.

[@knoxjon89]

I really cant believe I didnt know about the mining laser focus till now. 🥴

[@davebradburryjr5084]

I mentioned this earlier but when you said on number three to leave the guns behind that you don't want like I said before you want to take those guns because you're want to get all that free ammo then take the jumpsuits because even though the stats don't mean much some of those jumpsuits depending on where they go can you a lot of money to this whole game is about making money legally not so much sheathing and basically stealing everything

[@ryan5983]

Always pick up weapons. ALWAYS!! You get ammo, normally 30 to 50 rounds. Then drop immediately after.

[@cermus]

I keep seeing the tip to aim the cutter first and make getting resources faster. Sure, the cutting itself is faster, but has anyone timed aiming versus not aiming? The aiming takes time. When I've tried switching back and forth between approaches, I find the total time spent is about the same.

[@Albedomancer]

Just start aiming and fire at the same time.. and makes a bigger difference when there's more than one ore node. Also you don't lose the focus if you sprint.