Starfield offers players a wide array of weapons to choose from and use while exploring the galaxy. As you progress through the game, enemies will get more and more health, along with stronger armor, and can become very difficult to kill.
Increasing your damage output is key to taking out enemies quickly, and Starfield gives players multiple ways to do so. Upgrading your damage output in multiple ways will all add up and have you dealing much more damage as long as you build your character correctly.
Upgrading Skills
The most straightforward way of increasing your damage is by upgrading skills to make your weapons deal more damage. The game has many weapon types and multiple skills that prioritize the damage of specific weapon types. Players should figure out what weapon they like most and will use the most and upgrade the corresponding skills for that weapon.
When wanting to upgrade the damage of a specific weapon, you’ll first need to figure out what type of gun it is and what bullets it shoots. Open up your inventory and find the gun you want to deal more damage with. Along the right side of the menu will be the gun’s stats. Below its name will be the keywords such as rifle, pistol, energy, etc. Each of these keywords has a corresponding skill to upgrade and deal more damage with. Ballistic weapons won’t be listed as ballistic, and cover all weapons that don’t have a bullet-type keyword such as Energy or EM.
Below is a list of skills that upgrade damage:
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Skill Name |
Effect |
|---|---|
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Rifle Certification |
Rifles deal more damage. |
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Ballistics |
Ballistic weapons deal more damage. |
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Lasers |
Laser weapons deal more damage. |
|
Pistol Certification |
Pistols deal more damage. |
|
Shotgun Certification |
Shotguns deal more damage. |
|
Boxing |
Unarmed attacks deal more damage, and heavy unarmed attacks use less oxygen. |
|
Martial Arts |
Unarmed attacks have an increased critical hit rate. |
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Dueling |
Melee weapons deal more damage, and players receive less damage while wielding a melee weapon. |
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Heavy Weapons Certification |
Heavy weapons deal more damage. |
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Incapacitation |
EM weapons deal more damage. |
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Particle Beams |
Particle Beam weapons deal more damage. |
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Armor Penetration |
Ranged weapons ignore a percentage of enemy armor. |
|
Sharpshooting |
Increased ranged headshot damage for all ranged weapons. |
Upgrading Weapons
Another way to increase the damage of a specific weapon in your inventory is by upgrading that weapon with better parts. This can be done at a Weapon Workbench and will require the Weapon Engineering skill to research better modifications that deal more damage. Some modifications can increase accuracy, fire rate, or reduce recoil, but the best simply increase your weapon’s damage.
When hovering over the possible upgrades for a weapon, you’ll see its effects on the stats of your gun with the menu on the left side of the screen. Flip through the upgrades to find the best damage upgrades and use the resources to get and equip the modification. Dealing damage will require a mix of both the right skills and a highly modified weapon, so be sure to find your favorite weapons and start working on all the ways to make them deal more damage.
Increasing Ship Damage
The process of dealing more damage with your ship is mostly the same. Go to a Ship Service Technician and purchase an upgraded weapon that deals more damage. Ship weapons have multiple stats that make it less clear on which weapons are the most effective, but pick and choose whichever you think is best based on your play style and equip it to your ship.
There are also multiple skills in the Tech skill tree that increase the damage of specific weapon types. Based on the weapons equipped to your ship, upgrade either Ballistic Weapon Systems, Energy Weapon Systems, Particle Beam Weapon Systems, and Missile Weapon Systems to increase the damage done by these weapon types.
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