Starfield Tips For Newbies on Sep 6th - Will Update.
1. Do the Mantis quest as soon as you get it.
2. Do the Freestar Collective questline ASAP (Imo).
3. If you're in a system and see gas giants then you might as well scan them for easy survey completion, as they obviously can't be landed on (dumb ass Twitter users). It will be an instant survey completion just by scanning them from orbit. Then you can turn data in to Vladimir for easy money early on in the game after you reach him in the main story.
4. When you have an active quest, don't bother going to your star map to find and set a course (unless you really want to). Simply press "Start" and then press "X" and it will set the course automatically. Then you only press "X" again to fast travel. It's a lot more seamless this way with less menu navigating.
5. In addition to the above, you don't have to be in or near your ship to fast travel anywhere, unless you're over encumbered.
6. When you're in space, the best way to fast travel to a destination is simply to press "LB" to open your scanner and then aim at the destination. Whether that be another planet in the system or a destination on the planet that you're currently orbiting. Once the scanner is open, whilst orbiting a planet, you simply press "A" to open up the locations on that planet, click on one and then press "X" to land. For fast travel to a planet from another planet, you simply press "A" while aiming at it and press "X" to travel. You don't need to open the menu at all.
7. You can also use the above to fast travel from system to system without opening your menu but only if you have an active quest directing you to that system.
8. Use the scanner when on foot on planets to, it will not only direct you where you need to go for a quest, it will also show you the directions of points of interest. It can also be used to fast travel back to your ship without opening the menu by simply aiming at the ships landing location.
9. Funny glitch, some glass cabinets that are locked have a little gap between the glass that allows you to take the armour inside, Lol.
10. You can access your ships cargo hold without being in the ship itself and send items from your inventory to the cargo hold. There seems to be a range limit to this that I haven't fully tested out. To do it though, you simply press "Start" and go to "Ship" then press "X" for cargo hold and press "LB" to move to inventory, then you just press "A" on what you want to store.
11. This is the most "RPG" that a Bethesda title has been since Morrowind, it will be a change and a surprise. Plan your builds out, there are multiple things that you won't be able to do at the start which you could in other Bethesda titles without unlocking the specific skills, such as stealth and pickpocketing. You will have to decide how you want to play, and have some patience. You won't start off with knowing absolutely everything, you won't become some incredibly all knowledgeable, all powerful being even 20-30 hours in, it's a slow progression to knowing everything. There are many skills that I want which I don't think I'll get in a single playthrough alone, so I plan on doing NG+ eventually.
12. Cities can be daunting at first to navigate so pay attention to signs and shop names, after the first few trips around the cities you should have less of an issue finding stuff, as long as you remember the shop names, their names are pretty large on the front of their stores as well. I have no issue at all now navigating around cities, aside from Neon, Lol.
13. If you're losing a space battle then dump your energy into gravity drive and warp the heck out of there by fast travelling to another planet or system, be careful though, as enemies can blow up your gravity drive.
14. You will need the target lock on skill to lock onto enemy ships engines and destroy them in order to board them.
15. Sleep restores health and some afflictions and is easily accessible since there's a bed on every ship.
16. You can bank auto persuades and auto hacks the more successful manual attempts that you do.
17. Use "Favourite" to assign weapons and items to quick-slots.
18. You can hide spacesuit and helmets in breathable atmospheres by going over to them and pressing RB.
19. There's a trade kiosk near the shipmasters that you can buy and sell stuff to. Vendors reset their money every 24 hours.
20. You can mine asteroids for resources, just blow em up.
21. There's a storage area in your bedroom of the Constellation Lodge which has infinite storage space but items placed in there can only be accessed by physically going back to there.
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I don't think it was a slow start at all, I was hooked pretty early on and able to go wherever only a few main story missions in, but I do agree that this is a game which just continues to get better the more you put into it, the more you play, the more you explore, find and unlock, I can't stop playing and it just goes from good to great to amazing.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 05 September 2023
