Starfield already looks like a true sci-fi marvel from Bethesda, with starships at the heart of the highly-anticipated adventure. These space cars aren’t just for show either. From the interviews and presentations prior to Bethesda’s release, there are many granular stats that make up the various Starfield ships.
You also have the option to customize your ship to your heart’s content with colors and modular parts. Need help pre-planning how to balance combat, defense, and aesthetics with your future vehicle? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with everything we know so far about how Starfield’s ships will work.
How do you customize your ship in Starfield?
Making their ship feel like their own is the most important step for anyone who wants to become an accomplished spaceman, and so far it looks like players have plenty of options to express their intergalactic style.
There are many different ship parts, many from different manufacturers with their own style. Each has their own cost, health, and crowd rating, and some are even locked behind certain player ability unlocks. There’s even a color picker for editing the exact hues for each piece.
In the June 2022 Official Starfield Gameplay Reveal, we took a look at how this customization actually works: players bring up a menu that places their ship on a blueprint with dozens of specs to tweak it. Confirmed parts include: cockpits, cowls, guns, engines, fuel tanks, landers and reactors. However, every part and paint job has a list price, so be ready to save up for something nice.
Starfield ship stats
On the ship customization screen, Starfield presents players with 11 essential stats that convey vital information about your rig. Here’s a list of all the important stats, from left to right:
- READ
- BAL
- MSL
- hull
- Sign
- charge
- crew
- Jump range (light years)
- mobility
- top speed
- Dimensions
Our best guess so far is that these acronyms probably stand for lasers, ballistics, missiles for weapon types. The hull and shield are likely to contribute to your ship’s health. There is a number for how many crew members can fit on the ship, how far you can jump through space, how easily the ship moves through space, how fast it can go and how heavy the ship is.
In addition to these identifiers, there is a small block in the top left that shows reactor and equipment performance, as well as six other bars. These are listed as:
- W0
- w1
- W2
- CLOSELY
- SHD
- GRV
Those qualities are a bit more veiled by the short clip that Bethesda showed. We can make an educated guess and assume that’s three weapons, an engine, a shield, and possibly a gravitational boost.
Are there ship battles in Starfield?
You’ve been confirmed to be able to pilot Starfield ships in first-person perspective à la No Man’s Sky, but how about combat? Yes, there are also confirmed space battles in Starfield.
In conversation with IGN At Summer of Gaming 2022, Todd Howard said: “[Starfield ships have a] A little bit of FTL there in terms of how much power to put into three different weapon systems, then into your engines and shields, and the gravdrive lets you jump and sort of get out of some situations where you need to use power.”
Here, Howard confirms several weapon systems, all of which could handle differently. Although we don’t know all the details, there is huge potential for different classes and builds like tanks, glass cannons or supply ships.
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