As the Spacefarer, decide your own story behind what brings you to sail the cosmos.
Starfield is coming soon, and spacefaring RPG fans will be delighted to know this could be one of the biggest games ever made. While it touches upon familiar space exploration territory such as through Elite: Dangerous or No Man’s Sky, it implements that extra dose of Bethesda magic with a massive blend of gameplay elements and potentially countless hours of quests and tasks. Leaning further into the RPG side of the game, you’ll be able to customize your character from the beginning onward, and one of the fundamental parts of the character creation will be your background. Read on for our guide on All Starfield Backgrounds: Starting Skills and Traits!
All Starfield Backgrounds Explained: Starting Skills and Traits
Customizing your unique Spacefarer will lead you to a choice of what you wish the Argos Extractors to find about your background, and each background comes with complementary skills to aid you in your journey. These are essentially starter preset builds to help you decide the type of character you want to make and provide a healthy base to set you in the right direction to learn more skills that fit with your ultimate chosen build. There are currently 16 known backgrounds, and information has only been shown for a few of them at this time, but we’ve gone ahead and provided a list of everything we know so far:
Gastronomy – Food and Drink crafting, and can research new recipes at a Research Lab.
Dueling – Melee Weapons do +10% damage.
Wellness – Burst Healing, 30 points of Health restored.
Pistol Certification – Pistols do +10% damage.
Medicine – Med packs provide +10% Healing.
Weight Lifting – +10KG for Carrying Capacity.
Pistol Certification – Pistols do +10% damage.
Security – You can hack Advanced Locks, with 2 auto attempts available.
Persuasion – Greater chance of success in Speech Challenges.
Medicine – Med packs provide +10% Healing.
Robotics – You deal +10% damage to Robots and Turrets.
Lasers – Laser weapons do +10% damage.
Persuasion – Greater chance of success in Speech Challenges.
Diplomacy – Target and NPC at or below your level, and force them to stop fighting temporarily.
Bargaining – Buy items for 5% less, sell for 10% more.
You may notice some overlap of skills, as they are presets but in general these are starter builds geared toward your preferred type of roles, such as crafting, combat, being a shrewd merchant, or a charismatic leader of the people. It appears to take cues from the Fallout series, but there’s still much we have yet to learn about the character creation in Starfield so far. The backgrounds option of Starfield essentially puts a bit of flavor into the origins of your character and an explanation for why they know what they know, and it’s up to the player to determine what else the Spacefarer learns from there.
This concludes our guide on All Starfield Backgrounds: Starting Skills and Traits! Be sure to keep an eye out for updates on this massive game, and keep your eyes peeled for the incredible secrets across a whopping 1000 explorable planets.
Starfield releases in 2023 as an Xbox Console exclusive, as well as on PC. The game will also feature as a day one release on Xbox Game Pass, so this will be an accessible, must-play title.
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