Starfield Character Creation

Character Creation Guide to help you create a Starfield character that you will enjoy playing.

Your character appears in Starfield as an employee of Argos Extractors, a mining company operating on Vectera, the moon of the planet Anselon on May 7, 2330.

For the events leading up to the start of the Starfield story, see Starfield Story So Far.

Character creation in Starfield begins few minutes after you start the game, after a brief introduction to the story. The character creation process in Starfield consists of the following stages:

• Your character's appearance settings: Biometric ID, Body and Face.
• Finding out your character's past: Background
• Traits settings, i.e. an additional description of your character.
• Familiarize yourself with the available Character Skills - you don't set them during character creation, but they will describe you in the game.

My personal Starfield Character Creation Guide

In most role-playing games, especially Bethesda games like Starfield, your character and their development are the most important part of the game.

Each of us finds his own way to make the game run nice and effectively. There will be as many different characters as there are players who will play Starfield. Therefore, don't worry about what character you play and what skills he will have at low levels. The creators of the game put a lot of effort so that everyone can easily find their path in the game.

So don't worry too much about my suggestions, just play the way you like it. Here are my "tips" for character creation and development in Starfield.

• What character you create during Character Creation, Pirate or Scientist, basically does not matter for the further game, because it is during the game itself that you will shape the strengths and weaknesses of your character.
• A few hours spent on refining the details of the face and the rest of the figure is certainly important, but in case of problems, during the game you will have the opportunity to use the Genetics Facility, where you can improve your beauty.
• Character Background is basically more of role play lore than a real indicator of your character's attributes. You get three Starting Skills, which slightly change the gameplay in the early stages, but either way you will be able to compensate for all the shortcomings in the later game.
• Character Background gives you additional dialogue options later in the game, but it doesn't have a significant impact on the whole story.
• Character Background cannot be changed during gameplay.
• The importance of Character Traits is slightly greater than Character Background, but still no Trait significantly affects the overall story.
• In general, Character Traits open up new dialogue options for you, mainly Faction Allegiance Traits and Religion Traits.
• Some Character Traits give you additional in-game stories, most notably Dream Home, Kid Stuff, and Hero Worshiped.
• Faction Allegiance Traits and Religion Traits give you bonuses to specific factions but cause hostility to their adversaries.
• None of the Character Traits block you from the game's storyline, you will still be able to complete quests for different factions and religions.
• None of the Character Traits make you significantly weaker, you'll have your disadvantages but you'll still be able to handle anything.
• Character Traits cannot be changed during gameplay.
• You don't set Character Skills during Character Creation, but it's worth getting acquainted with them and finding out in which directions you can develop.
• Personally, it seems to me that the best way to develop Skills is to develop evenly up to a certain point in the game, and after gaining the appropriate level of experience, investing in selected skills.
• You will not be able to max some skills to Rank 4 at low levels as the upgrade cost increases with your Rank. And if you spend too many points in one Skill, you will be weak in others.
• In fact, every skill is useful at some point in the game.
• I will certainly develop skills related to exploration, the ability to fly long and fast, scan planets and moons, scan flora and fauna on planets, discover new star systems.
• Skills related to interactions with NPCs, such as conversation, persuasion, trade or bribery, seem to be important. Developing these skills will make your game more interesting.
• Skills related to production, mining, cooking, making chems and research seem to be important in the long run of the game.
• As for Combat Skills, they are certainly important, but without exaggeration, it's definitely not worth investing points in every possible way of fighting and every weapon.
• I will leave the skills related to fighting in a spaceship for the second part of the game.
• Probably, as in every RPG game, knowing Stealth, Persuasion, Scavenging, Theft, Medicine and Security will make the game much easier.

Biometric ID, Body and Face

The process of creating a character in Starfield starts with setting their appearance, i.e. Biometric ID, Body and Face.

Starfield provides a lot of possibilities to create unique looks for your character.

• Biometric ID - determines the base type of your character, then this type you will refine later.
• Body - sets body type, musculature, walk style, and skin tone.
• Face - allows you to set all the parameters of your face in great detail.

These settings are not final, please note that, later, during gameplay you will be able to modify your character's appearance in the Genetics Facility.