To completely break Starfield, utilize console commands to manipulate the game’s mechanics, such as granting infinite resources or setting your character’s stats to absurdly high levels, causing unexpected and often humorous results.
So, you’re curious about Starfield how to completely break this game? It’s a question many players ponder after spending hours exploring the vast universe. Many find a certain thrill in pushing games beyond their intended limits.
The allure of messing with the intricate systems is quite tempting. We’ve all been there, wondering what would happen if we tweaked a variable just a little too much.
Starfield: How to Completely Break This Game
Alright, space explorers! You’ve probably spent countless hours soaring through the cosmos in Starfield, battling pirates, and building outposts. But what if I told you there’s a whole other side to the game? A side where the rules are more like… suggestions? We’re diving deep into the wild world of breaking Starfield, not with game-breaking glitches (well, maybe a few), but by exploiting its systems and mechanics to create some truly hilarious and powerful situations.
Understanding Starfield’s Core Systems
Before we get to the crazy stuff, it’s important to know what makes Starfield tick. It’s like knowing the parts of a car before you try to soup it up! Understanding these core mechanics opens the door to finding ways to bend, and sometimes break, the intended gameplay loop.
The Power of Skills
Skills in Starfield aren’t just about making your character better; they’re the keys to manipulating many parts of the game. Investing wisely can lead to massive gains, and neglecting certain skills can leave you struggling. Some skills, when combined in the right way, can create very overpowered situations. For example, boosting your stealth skills can allow you to walk through enemy bases unnoticed, making any fight a cake walk. And combining a boosted stealth build with increased damage when hidden is a killer combo.
Crafting and Resource Exploitation
Starfield lets you craft all sorts of things from weapons and armor to outpost buildings and items. Certain resources are harder to find, but clever players can get more than their fair share. Resource gathering becomes way easier when you understand the mechanics, the location of resource veins, and the skill tree related to resource collection. There are also certain “infinite resource” exploits which we will be touching on soon.
Outposts: More Than Just a Home
Outposts are not just pretty spaceships you build in space; they are the heart of resource production and can be manipulated for personal gain. You can set up cargo links, build extractors, and produce anything you need without spending money. This becomes very profitable in the later stages of the game when you have more of the related skills.
The Economics of Starfield
Understanding how credits flow in Starfield is fundamental. There are many ways to make money in the game, such as selling resources, completing missions, or looting enemies. The buy and sell prices of different items play a big role in how you choose to use your credits. Trading mechanics can also be utilized to make you richer. You can use that money to purchase the best ships, weapons, and equipment.
Exploiting Starfield’s Mechanics
Now that you have a grip on how Starfield works, let’s have some fun bending those rules. Remember these are for fun and might make the game too easy or different from what the developers intended. So, it’s your choice to try or not to try these things.
Money Making Machines
Forget tedious missions, let’s talk about getting rich quick. Here are a few simple and complex ways to become ridiculously rich in Starfield:
- Resource Farming: Certain planets have very high concentrations of valuable resources. Setting up multiple outposts with cargo links can send you huge amounts of resources. You can then sell these resources to vendors for huge profits. Use skills like “Surveying” to easily find these places.
- Weapon Upgrading and Selling: Find a good weapon, make some modifications to it and sell it. Repeat this process, and you are set to become the richest space explorer in no time. Skills like “Weapon Engineering” help in making the weapons more powerful and more valuable.
- Vendor Resets: Vendors restock after a while; you can make a routine out of this by buying cheap items and selling them back for higher prices. Some vendors have more cash on hand than others, and understanding which vendors have the most money makes this method very powerful.
Infinite Item Duplication
Want to have infinite med packs, ammo, or resources? Starfield has a few ways to copy items, although it could be patched in future. This is done by having two characters interact with the same object at the same time. You can do this with a companion or by using an NPC. You can use this to duplicate any item in the game.
The Power of Pickpocketing
Stealing is a very viable strategy, even more so with the stealth skill upgrades. You can get amazing weapons, armor, and items this way. A maxed out “theft” skill will make you a master thief, allowing you to get the most valuable items from anyone in the game. Just be careful of being caught! Here’s a good way to do this.
- Sneak behind your target and pickpocket them.
- Get away quickly and find a safe space.
- You might have to use the persuade skills, if the person suspects you of stealing.
Combat Exploits
Starfield has some pretty fun combat, but here is how to make things a little too easy for you.
- Stealth Attacks: As mentioned before, the combination of maxed out stealth and damage skills make you a walking tank. You can take down bosses with ease.
- Environment kills: Utilize the environment and take down your enemies with creative methods. For example, pushing an enemy into explosive barrel will give you easy kill.
- Crippling: Use weapons with the crippling effect, and slow down the enemies and then finish them off. This effect makes fighting very easy.
Breaking the Narrative: Skipping Ahead
Starfield’s story is filled with twists and turns, but what if you could bypass some of it? While you cannot completely break the story in most cases, you can sequence break and skip parts.
Mission Sequence Breaking
Some missions can be started out of order, giving you some surprising advantages or leading to hilarious outcomes. You might discover locations or obtain rewards ahead of time. Sometimes, starting a mission without the intended gear makes for a funny challenge too!.
Dialogue Manipulation
Sometimes what you say in dialogue choices is not as important as how fast you say it. Using quick dialogue choices to skip dialogue options or quickly clicking through dialogue to bypass missions is a strategy that is sometimes successful. While not always consistent, it’s fun to try. It can cause some hilarious results!
The Fun Side of “Breaking” Starfield
Remember, the point of all this is to have a good time. There’s a lot of joy to be had in experimenting and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in a video game. So, go ahead, try these things out. You might find a hidden path to power or discover some seriously funny outcomes. You’re not really breaking it, you are just using the systems to your advantage.
Playing Around With Gravity
Low-gravity planets can lead to all sorts of ridiculous physics-related fun. Try boosting around to see just how far you can go, or create a funny jump puzzle for yourself.
Ship Building Madness
Starfield’s ship builder allows for some interesting designs, but it can also be pushed to the limits. Building the biggest ships possible or the tiniest ships possible and trying to use them is always fun.
Creative Outpost Design
There’s so much more to outposts than just resource production. Building mazes or weird shapes and structures can be incredibly entertaining. Some players have found ways to create massive, interconnected outposts that span across entire planets!
A Word of Caution
While it is fun to bend the rules, keep in mind that excessive exploitation can potentially ruin some of the challenge and enjoyment of the game. It’s okay to experiment, but keep the intended experience in mind. Always remember, it’s your game, play it your way!
So there you have it, a guide to bending (and maybe slightly breaking) Starfield. It’s all about finding your own way to play and having fun with the game’s mechanics. Remember that these methods might not work forever, as developers sometimes patch these little loopholes, but that is part of the fun too! Keep exploring, keep experimenting, and keep having fun in the vast universe of Starfield!