Starfield - 7 things I WISH I knew SOONER

[@MrDavePed]

Keller's mining laser gives you a bonus damage against robots.

[@cassiusdio1138]

I also suggest carrying two backpacks. One power boost and one skip

[@lorgrenbenirus]

The problem with surveying is that if you survey and explore a planet, which later gets pointed to by a quest to find the temple, the temple may never spawn. So you end up with a quest that you cannot complete, because of a bug. Not sure if Bethesda has fixed it, but I doubt it.

[@JUDGERAMBO]

Survey the gas giants, they are instant survey on the first scan from space, quick credits convenient for early game. Sleeping in a bed adds an XP boost for a short time. Tranquilitea aid item also adds an XP boost for a short time, I use it in the longer missions when the sleeping boost wears off. Saving level ups and taking perks together can progress them at the same time getting advantages sooner. Modifying ships adding cargo for hoarding, it's not that bad to have zero mobility.

[@parabiology1014]

Other food items grant experience as well, including Grandpa’s Meatloaf if you take the kid’s stuff trait, alien tea, boba alien tea, chapaguri, pappardelle bolognese, sunray tonic, and 9 different types of tranquilitea each and all grant 2 percent experience bonus, modified by nutrition skill up to 3 percent. They are stackable between different types of items.

[@-_-DatDude]

1.Your background doesn't really matter late in the game. Your traits choices is the most important thing in character selection. Traits can be removed but you cant gain new ones. 2.NG+ removes all your outposts,ships, creds and gear. 3. Keep the Razorleaf Ship, its objectively the best ship in the game and its tied to infinite credit exploit. 4. Giving your companion just 1 throwable, allows your companion to throw that throwable indefinitely. Same also applies to ammo and any gun. 5. EM weapons, melee and unarmed playstyles are massively undertuned. Which means they make good challenges on the harder difficulties. 6. You can fast travel to your ship using the scanner button if you're not over-encumbered 7.Skill Books exists

[@parabiology1014]

Good list! I would also add that weapon ammo works the same as throwables; give a companion a weapon and a single unit of ammunition for it, and they can fire unlimited shots.

[@-_-DatDude]

@@parabiology1014 Yep very true bro, I forgot to include it. Added it to the list.

[@MrDavePed]

Challenge yourself to never buy or steal anything from the merchants except ship parts. Makes resource gathering an important part of the game.

[@MrDavePed]

Skip the planets with life forms when collecting survey data. They are a waste of time. You want all the others and the ones with traits will give you a lot of extra experience.

[@SimmerCK]

Especially the ones with sea life. I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to scan 2 types of sea life. One was plentiful while the other was rare.

[@MrDavePed]

@@SimmerCK Yeah strong boostpack skill helps a lot with those.

[@robovader7625]

That it was made by Sweet Baby Inc.

[@_multiverse_]

The easiest way to earn money is to just take everything, you just do this while doing missions and youll have a few hundred thousand credits in no time. The only cheat i use is increasing the carrying capacity of ships...it makes no sense to have a huge ship thats only able to carry 300kg of payload. Its just not realistic.

[@DJ-mw6mm]

Carry capacity is waste of points imo. Being overburdened is not that big of a deal and anyways you can stash alot of items on a corpse or box and retrieve them after your done.