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Starfield - List of all known character backgrounds and their starting skills

Published: 08:48, 16 June 2023

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Starfield - List of all known character backgrounds and their starting skills

Starfield's character creation tool lets you choose a background for your character, which will have an impact on the dialogue choices and can come in handy during certain quests

When you start creating your character in Starfield, the game will let you choose from a wide variety of backgrounds that will define your explorer. So here's a neat list of all backgrounds we've seen so far along with their skills and descriptions.

Being a true Bethesda RPG, sci-fi epic Starfield will obviously let you create your own character down to the tiniest details. One of the features that you'll get to choose for your fresh space explorer is their Background, which will define the character and have an impact on quests and dialogue choices.

Basically, Backgrounds can help you complete quests more easily if you are dealing with something that you have prior knowledge of. Also, during dialogue, Starfield will offer you special dialogue lines depending on your background to persuade characters, lie to them or even charm them.

Starfield will have a bunch of these backgrounds and we have seen several of them, along with their official descriptions and skills. Below, you'll find the lists of all known backgrounds in Starfield along with known details. We will be updating this article as Bethesda reveal more information about backgrounds.

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Starfield character backgrounds list

Keep in mind that Bethesda fully revealed only a handful of backgrounds so we don't have the full descriptions and skills for all of them. Below you'll find a list of backgrounds that are still under the wraps of mystery, followed by those that have been fully revealed.

Beast Hunter
Bouncer
Bounty Hunter
Gangster
Homesteader
Industrialist
Long Hauler
Pilgrim
Professor
Ronin

Chef

Description: While the unrefined masses scarfed down Chunks by the shipload, you catered to those with a more... discerning palate. In your kitchen, countless alien species became true culinary masterpieces.

Starting Skills:

Gastronomy: Access to brand new worlds means access to brand new ingredients, and there is almost no limit to the delicious foods and drinks a talented chef can prepare.
Duelling: Considering by many to be a lost art, close attacks with a melee weapon can often be deadlier than ranged combat when carried out by a skilled practitioner.
Scavenging: There are those who can find just about anything, and their success is usually dependent on knowing how, and where, to look.

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Combat Medic

Description: Leave it to human beings to fight over something as infinite as outer space. That's where you come in. You've never been afraid to take on the enemy.. but you'd much rather take care of your friends.

Starting skills:

Pistol Certification: Considering the popularity of the personal sidearm in the Settled Systems, familiarity with such weapons is often considered essential.
Medicine: Only through advancements in medical training and technology has humanity been able to withstand the galaxy's main dangers.
Wellness: By embracing an active lifestyle and good nutrition habits, one may improve their overall sense of health, and even gain prolonged life expectancy.

Cyber Runner

Description: From Neon to New Atlantis, the megacorps stand as monuments to power, prestige and profit. You've worked both for and against them, on the inside and out, often sacrificing conscience for credits.

Starting Skills:

Stealth: For a combatant who values discretion above all else, the ability to approach a target while undetected and kill with a silenced weapon is as terrifying as it is effective.
Security: While the standardized digital locking mechanics is renowned for its security, any code can be broken with the proper training.
Theft: While not entirely honourable, and certainly not legal, it is nonetheless occasionally necessary to discreetly remove property from someone's person.

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Cyberneticist

Description: Robots? Mere toys. Neuroamps? Good for parlour tricks. the colony War may have made implants and upgrades available to veterans, but you once saw a greater future. Humans and machines, as one.

Starting skills:

Medicine: Only through advancements in medical training and technology has humanity been able to withstand the galaxy's many dangers.
Security: While the standardized digital locking mechanism is renowned for its security, any code can be broken with the proper training.
Lasers: Personal laser weapons are in widespread use across the settled systems and specialised training can greatly increase their effectiveness.

Diplomat

Description: The wars are over. Peace now reigns the Settled Systems. But only because there are those quietly fighting to keep it. Because of you, agreements were signed, words were heeded... lives were spared.

Starting Skills:

Persuasion: In the Settled Systems, the nuanced ability to listen and discuss can often accomplish far more than simply shooting first and asking questions later.
Commerce: In the Settled Systems' free market economy, almost anyone with the right skillset can open and run a successful business.
Wellness: By embracing an active lifestyle and good nutrition habits, one may improve their overall sense of health, and even gain prolonged life expectancy.

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Explorer

Description: They said exploration is a lost art. You didn't listen. As the major factions argued over the space they desperately tried to control, you were busy uncovering the wonders of the Settled Systems.

Starting Skills:

Lasers: Personal laser weapons are in widespread use across the settled systems and specialised training can greatly increase their effectiveness.
Astrodynamics: Advanced technology is one thing, but it takes skill, patience and a little bit of love to coax even more capability out of a ship's grav drive.
Surveying: Humanity now has access to untold alien worlds, and the ability to decipher all that data while on the ground has become an essential skillset.