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Whether you're exploring distant planets, engaging in thrilling combat, or unraveling the mysteries of the Starfield universe, these skills will be your key to success.
As the highly anticipated Starfield launch, developed by Bethesda, approaches; it's essential to prepare for the adventures that await in the vast cosmos.
In this guide, we'll delve into the various character skills you'll need to thrive in this new frontier. Whether it's physical prowess, social finesse, combat expertise, scientific acumen, or technological proficiency, Starfield offers a rich array of skills to master.
Physical Skills
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Starfield physical skills list
Tier 1
- Boxing
- Rank 1: +25% unarmed attack damage, -25% O2 usage for power attacks
- Rank 2: +50% unarmed attack damage, -50% O2 usage for power attacks
- Rank 3: +75% unarmed attack damage, 30% less O2 used while running unarmed in combat
- Rank 4: 100% unarmed attack damage with a chance to knock down opponents
- Fitness: Increasing available oxygen and reducing oxygen usage for sprinting and power attacks.
- Stealth: Enhancing sneakiness, making you harder to detect, and empowering suppressed weapons.
- Weight Lifting: Boosting carrying capacity and providing resistance to stagger.
- Wellness: Increasing maximum health significantly.
Tier 2
- Pain Tolerance: Reducing physical damage and a chance to ignore it at low health.
- Nutrition: Enhancing the effectiveness of food and drink items.
- Gymnastics: Improving mobility, reducing fall damage, and replenishing oxygen.
- Environmental Conditioning: Offering resistance to various environmental damage types.
- Energy Weapon Dissipation: Reducing energy damage and reflecting it at low health.
Tier 3
- Cellular Regeneration: Increasing the chance of natural recovery and avoiding injuries.
- Decontamination: Improving natural recovery and avoiding infections.
- Martial Arts: Enhancing melee and unarmed combat skills.
Tier 4
- Concealment: Gaining stealthy advantages and dealing devastating sneak attack damage.
- Neurostrikes: Stunning and disarming enemies with unarmed attacks.
- Rejuvenation: Regenerating health both in and out of combat.
Social Skills
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Starfield social skills list
Tier 1
- Commerce: Skillful trading with better prices.
- Gastronomy: Crafting specialty food and drinks.
- Persuasion: Increasing chances of successful interactions.
- Scavenging: Finding extra resources.
- Theft: Unlocking pickpocket abilities.
Tier 2
- Deception: Improving surrenders and scans.
- Diplomacy: Stopping NPCs from fighting.
- Intimidation: Forcing NPCs to flee.
- Isolation: Enhancing weapon damage and damage resistance.
- Negotiation: Accessing bribery options.
Tier 3
- Instigation: Forcing NPCs to attack allies.
- Leadership: Boosting companion affinity and abilities.
- Outpost Management: Expanding outposts and increasing extractor efficiency.
Tier 4
- Manipulation: Ensuring NPC obedience.
- Ship Command: Managing a larger crew.
- Xeniosociology: Influencing alien creatures.
Combat Skills
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Starfield combat skills list
Tier 1
- Ballistics: Enhancing ballistic weapon damage and range.
- Dueling: Amplifying melee weapon damage and granting unique perks.
- Lasers: Boosting laser weapon damage and adding fiery effects.
- Pistol Certification: Strengthening pistol damage and critical hit chances.
- Shotgun Certification: Increasing shotgun damage and stun effects.
Tier 2
- Demolitions: Improving explosives and resistance to explosive damage.
- Heavy Weapons Certification: Amplifying heavy weapon damage and physical resistance.
- Incapacitation: Enhancing EM weapon damage and stunning abilities.
- Particle Beams: Strengthening particle beam weapon capabilities.
- Rifle Certification: Bolstering rifle damage and reloading speed.
Tier 3
- Marksmanship: Boosting critical hit chances with ranged weapons.
- Rapid Reloading: Accelerating weapon reload speed.
- Sniper Certification: Enhancing scoped weapon abilities.
- Targeting: Improving shooting accuracy and marking enemies.
Tier 4
- Armor Penetration: Ignoring target armor and weakening enemy armor.
- Crippling: Increasing chances of downing enemies.
- Sharpshooting: Amplifying critical damage to specific enemy parts.
Science Skills
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Starfield science skills list
Tier 1
- Astrodynamics: Enhancing mobility in space.
- Geology: Improving resource gathering from surface objects.
- Medicine: Boosting the effectiveness of healing items.
- Research Methods: Reducing resource requirements for research.
- Surveying: Extending scanning capabilities.
Tier 2
- Botany: Gathering organic resources and learning about plants.
- Scanning: Detecting resources and ship information.
- Spacesuit Design: Crafting improved spacesuit mods.
- Weapon Engineering: Crafting weapon mods.
- Zoology: Gathering organic resources from creatures.
Tier 3
- Astrophysics: Scanning planets and moons for traits.
- Chemistry: Crafting chemical items.
- Outpost Engineering: Building better outpost modules.
Tier 4
- Special Projects: Researching experimental projects.
- Planetary Habitation: Expanding outpost capabilities.
- Aneutronic Fusion: Boosting ship reactor power production.
Tech Skills
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Starfield tech skills list
Tier 1
- Ballistic Weapon Systems: Enhancing damage and efficiency.
- Boost Pack Training: Unlocking boost pack usage.
- Piloting: Unlocking ship thrusters and piloting.
- Security: Attempting advanced locks and hacking.
- Targeting Control Systems: Improving ship targeting.
Tier 2
- Energy Weapon Systems: Enhancing energy weapon damage.
- Engine Systems: Boosting ship speed and maneuverability.
- Payloads: Increasing ship cargo capacity.
- Shield Systems: Enhancing shield capacity and resilience.
Tier 3
- Missile Weapon Systems: Enhancing missile weapon damage.
- Particle Beam Weapon Systems: Improving particle beam weapons.
- Robotics: Increasing damage to robots and turrets.
- Starship Design: Installing better ship modules.
- Starship Engineering: Accelerating ship systems repair.
Tier 4
- Automated Weapon Systems: Boosting turret damage and targeting.
- Boost Assault Training: Enhancing boost pack abilities.
- EM Weapon Systems: Enhancing EM weapon damage and effects.
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