One dedicated fan spent hundreds of hours puzzling out all of Starfield’s skills and upgrades based on the space game’s pre-release footage, including skill branches and even what Starfield’s level cap probably is (thanks, GamesRadar). Redditer asd8dhd posted a series of images showing what looks like the full set of skills, along with a lengthy document that includes descriptions and categories.
If asd8dhd’s reckoning is accurate, it looks like Starfield has about 60 skills split into five categories:
- Physical
- Social
- Tech
- Science
- Combat
These range from standard boosts such as increasing the amount of health you restore to skills that seemingly affect what kind of character you build, including some that make your robots more powerful or increase the damage that certain weapons deal.
After almost 200 hours of research, here is the complete skill system used in Starfield (SPECULATION)
by u/asd8dhd in Starfield
It also looks like these tone down the deep personal customization options we saw in Fallout 3 in exchange for something more streamlined.
Asd8dhd’s deductions led them to conclude that each skill has four ranks – Novice, Advanced, Expert, and Master – each of which takes increasingly more skill points to unlock. They believe you’ll need 16 points to unlock a skill’s Master level, and assuming you get one skill point each time you level up, that should put the level cap somewhere around 326, at least at launch.
Whether their work ends up being fully accurate, it’s an impressive bit of deduction and synthesis, all the more so considering Bethesda and Xbox haven’t released all that much Starfield footage in the past few years.
Starfield launches for Xbox Series X|S and PC on Sep. 6, 2023.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
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