Best Starfield weapons: Early game must-haves & best guns overall

I've read several comments here and elsewhere that Bethesda's Starfield is "a mile-wide but deep as a puddle", or variations on that theme. Said commenters might be tickled to know that there is, in fact, a puddle in the game's Akila City that contains infinite loot: by dint of peering into it, you'll magically gain access to a nearby store's inventory. Strip the shelves, then wait a day or two, and you'll be able to do so again, forever and ever. Or at least, that was the case till this week's Starfield patch, a small update consisting of exactly ten bulletpoints, including one that tackles "an issue that allowed for a vendor's full inventory to be accessible". Boo! Time to go looking for another convenient in-game metaphor, I guess. Perhaps there's something incredibly clever you can say about all the flying cities.

An update for Starfield has been released today, but temper your expectations: the patch is a small one aimed at closing some exploits and fixing a few bugs. The other stuff players have been waiting for, like the missing FOV slider and brightness controls, DLSS and ultrawide monitor support, and city maps, still haven't arrived.

, with more than 1,000 planets and 100 star systems, has a plethora of excellent quests, many of which are easy to miss as they are non-essential side quests. In spite of not being necessary for the completion of the game, many of 's side quests are among the greatest, most entertaining, and most immersive quests in the game. Perhaps the best element of many of these side quests, however, is the exceptional rewards they offer the player.

The Trade Authority is a major chain of vendors found throughout the Settled Systems of . They are infamous for their open trade policy. They'll take anything you have to sell, including contraband. You can find both official Trade Authority shops and smaller kiosks in the major towns and settlements of .

features a number of Enhance! stores that make it possible to change the appearance of a player character, but one is the clear winner among the pack. Appearance isn't necessarily the most crucial aspect of, as first-person mode is the default experience, but the inclusion of a third-person feature does bring make it possible to bring looks to the forefront. Whether curating a nice style for third-person or simply wanting to rest assured that a character looks as good as it could, Enhance stores provide a nice option that is by no means unwelcome.

The depth of customization available for your ship in allows you to add Workbenches and other Crafting Stations to your vessel to make or improve items wherever you go. These areas can only be included by picking specific module parts when building your ship. The delicate balance between the moving sections of your star-soaring craft can make this process tricky but possible.

The Hunter is one of the most enigmatic characters in that shouldn’t be ignored. With so much to explore and so many people to meet, it is easy to overlook some characters, especially those that can only be found when straying from the beaten path. However, 's The Hunter stands out among the rest of the game'sNPCs, and with good reason, as people will learn as they progress through the game.

Traits in are part of your character creation that gives you a special positive and negative origin that affects how you start the game, but these backgrounds are something you can choose to lose. If, for whatever reason, you dislike the trait you picked, each can be nullified in different ways as your journey unfolds. Those playing on PC even have the option to use console commands to give themselves a new trait entirely.

, like many of Bethesda's past RPGs is a game full of choices and consequences. Most often, major choices in any given quest line will come through dialogue or optional objectives clearly marked in the quest log. However, there's one choice players don't even know they're passively making, which can have devastating consequences later on in the game's main campaign.

gives you tons of options to build your ship to resemble iconic sci-fi vessels, including the ominous space station of the parasitic robots from known as The Borg Cube. The infamous location where countless members of the United Federation of Planets were assimilated, this machine can be tricky to recreate. Even the simple design of the Cube requires plenty of effort.

Another day, another Starfield exploit. This one lets players plunder the inventory of the poor unsuspecting shopkeeper in Akila City.

If you've been a fan of Bethesda games for a while, you'll more than likely be well aware of the Invisible Dawnstar Chest glitch from Skyrim. Over a decade ago, one lucky Skyrim player found a seemingly invisible chest packed to the brim with powerful and expensive items, tucked away inside of a random cliff in Dawnstar. This was actually a chest filled with a nearby merchant's inventory, but was accidentally placed too close to the surface, letting fans pilfer the contents of an entire shop without punishment.