Starfiled update 2024

In this post, we explore the new gameplay features from the latest starfield update, where players can adjust difficulty settings to make the game their own. Knowing how each setting affects gameplay is important, as finding the right balance between experience points and challenges can improve your overall enjoyment. Whether you want a simple and easy experience or seek a tough and demanding adventure, trying out these options will enrich your gaming experience.

Combat & Ship Damage

Adjusting the settings for Enemy Combat Damage and Player Combat Damage affects how intense the combat feels. Damage levels range from very easy to extreme, with extreme settings requiring more attention. Setting both to the highest level can increase your experience by 12%, leading to taking more damage and dealing less. If your play style supports it, raising enemy combat damage may be beneficial for the experience boost. On the other hand, lowering these settings does not impact your experience. Keeping player combat damage at the normal level is advisable, but reducing it below normal can make combat feel more realistic.
In ship combat, the damage dealt by both enemy and player ships is important, allowing players to earn up to 12% XP without facing penalties for adjusting these settings. The Extreme setting challenges players to remain vigilant and act quickly, enhancing the overall difficulty of the game.
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Very Easy
Easy
Normal
Hard
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Extreme
Enemy Combat & Ship Damage
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Ammo Weight & Carry Capacity

Enabling the ammo weight setting can give you a valuable 4% XP bonus, even though it adds a bit of weight to your inventory. We recommend using this feature because the advantages far exceed any disadvantages. This small adjustment allows players to earn more experience while only slightly reducing their inventory space.
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Weighted Ammo
Ammo Weight
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+4%
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Adjusting your Carry Capacity affects your gameplay. Lowering your weight gives you a 4% experience bonus, but we suggest keeping it at the normal level for the best experience. If you raise your carrying weight by two levels, you can carry more but will face an 8% experience penalty, so we recommend staying with the normal setting for optimal play.
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Carry Capacity
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Cargo Access Distance & Vedor Credits

Using the Cargo Access Distance feature, you can customize how you access your ship’s cargo. You have three options: access cargo from anywhere, limit access to outposts or settlements, or only access it from inside the ship. Although this option gives you a +2% XP Bonus, it’s best to stick with the standard settings unless you’re ready for the extra work involved.

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Limited Locations
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Inside Ship
Cargo Access Distance
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-2%
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+2%
Starfield May 2024 Update Vendor Credits
Vendor credits provide a useful feature that allows you to customize your experience in three ways. You can reduce your credits for a 4% XP boost or choose from two options to increase credits with a maximum penalty of 4%. We believe this penalty is worth it, as it improves your game experience by letting you sell more items without needing to reset the vendor or travel to different vendors to offload your goods.
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Vendor Credits
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-2%
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Medical Item Healing, Food Healing & Sleeping Healing

These three gameplay options affect your health recovery. Medical Item Healing controls how quickly you regain health from med packs and other medical aids. You can choose to recover faster, which has a -2% penalty, or slower, which provides a +4% XP bonus. Food Healing lets you decide how much health you gain from eating food; selecting none gives you a +2% bonus, while more healing results in a -2% penalty. Sleep Healing indicates where or if you can recover health or heal from afflictions. If you choose to heal wherever you sleep, it costs a -6% penalty, but many players find this not worthwhile. The Location Limited Sleeping option restricts affliction recovery but allows health recovery while sleeping at ship outposts and settlements, making the +2% XP bonus valuable. Choosing None gives a +4% bonus but doesn’t allow any recovery during sleep or rest, meaning you’ll depend on food and medical supplies to heal.

More
Normal
Slowly
Medical Item Healing
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+0%
+4%
More
Normal
None
Food Healing
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+2%
Full Restore
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Location Limited
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Sleep Healing
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+2%
+4%

Sustenance

Sustenance introduces a survival element to the game by requiring you to eat and drink every 30 minutes, which results in either positive or negative effects depending on your settings. There are three options available: off, positive and negative effects, and positive effects only. If you choose positive effects only, drinking will increase your oxygen recovery by 30 percent, your sneak attack bonus by 15 percent, and your reload speed by 25 percent, while eating will boost your health by 30 percent, melee damage by 15 percent, and carry capacity by 25 percent. In this mode, you won’t face any penalties for not eating or drinking, but you will lose all positive effects. If you select the positive and negative effects option, you will enjoy all the benefits mentioned earlier but will incur penalties if you fail to eat or drink every 30 minutes. Not eating or drinking will lead to a loss of 30 percent health, 15 percent melee damage, and 25 percent carry capacity due to hunger, or a decrease of 30 percent oxygen recovery, 15 percent sneak attack bonus, and 25 percent reload speed because of dehydration.
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Positive Only
Positive and Negative
Sustenance
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-2%
+4%

Combat Affliction Gain, Affliction Treatment, & Affliction Prognosis

Starfield May 2024 Update Afflictions
The following section outlines how afflictions are passed on and treated. Combat affliction gain affects whether you get afflictions from fighting, creatures, or weapons. Turning it off means you won’t get any afflictions. In normal mode, you only get afflictions from creatures, while increased mode raises the risk from all sources. Turning off combat affliction results in a -3% penalty, while increased mode offers a +4% XP bonus. Affliction treatment shows how afflictions can be managed. In normal mode, medications can cure afflictions with no penalties or bonuses. If set to Improve Only, medications can enhance the outlook but won’t cure it, providing a +6% XP bonus. Affliction prognosis indicates how likely an affliction is to worsen or develop an infection over time. In normal mode, afflictions remain stable without penalties or bonuses. Advanced settings add a chance for afflictions to worsen while offering a +5% XP bonus.
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Increased
Combat Affliction Gain
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+4%
Normal
Improve Only
Affliction Treatment
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+6%
Normal
Advanced
Afflicltion Prognosis
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+5%

Environmental Damage & Affliction & Environmental Damage Restoration

Environmental Damage Restoration explains how you recover from damage. The Normal option allows you to restore health when you are safe, in a good location, and away from hazards, but does not offer any bonuses or penalties. Resting provides recovery when you are not in a dangerous environment, but only if you are waiting or sleeping, giving you a 2% bonus. The Limited Resting option requires you to sleep in a ship, outpost, or settlement for restoration, which offers a 4% bonus. We believe this option is worth the additional XP.
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Normal
Advanced
Environmental Damage & Afflictions
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+0%
+4%
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Resting
Limited Resting
Environmental Damage Restoration
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Conclusion

Conclusion – In the May 2024 update, the new Game Options provides a significant increase in flexibility within Starfield. We feel that the new game options enhance gameplay and are a great addition to Starfield. They allow you to adjust combat, ship damage, healing, and survival settings to tailor the gameplay to your preferences. Although this was not the only change made in the update, we feel that it was the most significant.In this post we give our suggested settings, but recommend playing with the settings to find a balance between XP and challenge that fits your play style.

  • REVIEW SCORE: 9.0