How To Keep away from Being Continually Overencumbered

Starfield, Bethesda’s latest RPG, is, properly…a giant sport. It’s full of quests to finish and aliens to shoot. It’s additionally jam-packed with gadgets to seize, promote, and manipulate. And it’s very simple to select up an excessive amount of junk and all of the sudden end up overencumbered, unable to fast-travel or dash as a lot as common. That’s no enjoyable! However you’ll be able to keep away from this annoying scenario.

I’ve performed about 55 hours of Starfield thus far, and for many of that point, I’ve not been overencumbered. In actual fact, I’m often carrying beneath 100kg of weight at any given time. What’s my secret? Effectively, after years of taking part in Bethesda video games, I’ve gotten fairly good at managing all of the weapons, well being gadgets, and junk you gather as you journey via the studio’s huge open-world RPGs. So let me assist you to cease being overencumbered with the following pointers and methods!

Cease grabbing all the things

Look, okay, I do know that is very apparent and all that, however…yeah, cease grabbing all the things! I get it. It is a Bethesda sport and one of many joys of those RPGs is how all the things will be grabbed, manipulated, saved, and offered. Each plastic cup and dart and sandwich. However you don’t have to seize all of it.

You could be pondering “I’ll promote this all for credit!” Effectively, positive, however you gained’t get that a lot for that junk. And there are higher methods to make credit on this sport, like doing quests and promoting high-value gadgets like uncommon fits, weapons, and really light-weight objects which can be value a whole bunch of credit. So yeah, cease. Put that cup down. Stroll away. Depart it. Depart it! I’m watching.

Stage up your carrying capability

Sure stats are all the time helpful in a Bethesda open-world RPG. Having additional well being and the power to lockpick something, for instance, are as useful in Starfield as they have been in Skyrim.

Equally, leveling up the talent that permits you to carry extra stuff with out turning into overencumbered could be very helpful. I additionally advocate grabbing this early so you can begin grinding away at its necessities to unlock increased ranges. Belief me, this can prevent time in the long term.

Make a behavior out of checking for heavy gadgets

You may type your total stock by weight and it is best to do that usually, as you’ll typically discover some random spacesuit or different merchandise taking over a big chunk of your carrying capability. Deal with this stuff and don’t allow them to muddle up your character. Whereas your heaviest bits of junk, you may additionally discover some of the seemingly culprits for why you’re overencumbered: ship elements.

Don’t maintain on to ship elements

Ship elements! These things are very helpful, letting you restore your ship throughout fight. Nevertheless, they’re additionally very heavy, weighing 10kg every. It’s very simple to gather a stack of those and never notice it till you choose up a gun and change into overencumbered.

Making issues worse, these heavy gadgets are discovered not in your sources or misc. tab, however as an alternative buried along with your help gadgets, like meals and well being kits. This makes them simple to overlook when dropping off sources to your ship. I’d love a future replace to maneuver these to sources by default. Till then, double-check everytime you really feel too heavy to ensure you aren’t carrying round a bunch of those cumbersome gadgets. And, one very last thing: You may retailer these in your ship and nonetheless use them, no want to hold them round!

Decide just a few weapons and promote the remainder

There are plenty of weapons in Starfield, from laser rifles to previous Earth shotguns and extra. It’s a smorgasbord of killing choices. However whereas I like to recommend you strive all the things at the least as soon as early on in Starfield, after the opening hours it is best to choose three or 4 weapons and promote or retailer the remainder.

This has plenty of advantages. You may focus your abilities extra, carry much less ammo, and never should handle an armory in all places you go. But in addition, it means you’ll not be slowed down by 12 weapons all utilizing up your treasured carrying capability! And that’s—hey, I informed you to place down that plastic cup! Cease! Simply because we’re on a brand new tip doesn’t imply I finished watching!

Use your ship’s cargo bay to retailer sources/valuables

After you’ve been out on a planet exploring, mining, or finishing quests, it is best to take a second to drop off extra gadgets in your ship’s cargo maintain. Fortunately, Bethesda added a hotkey that permits you to ship all of your sources—like minerals, metals, and many others.—proper to your ship with one button press.

However don’t simply retailer sources in your ship’s cargo containers. You may retailer uncommon fits or weapons you need to promote later in there too, in addition to different gadgets which can be taking over area. And in case your ship begins to expire of area, properly, first, perhaps cease grabbing all the things. But in addition, spend money on including some extra storage to your ship, which you are able to do at any spaceport with an NPC starship technician. Oh, and don’t neglect: You may improve your ship’s storage capability through the Payloads perk.

Search for spacesuits which have additional storage

Throughout my third night time of taking part in Starfield, I stumbled upon a legendary go well with that allow me carry 40 additional kilograms on my character. When you may not discover one pretty much as good as this, maintain an eye fixed out for spacesuits that present additional storage.

Unfold the burden round to companions

In the event you journey with a companion, don’t neglect to make use of them like a pack mule. They will carry fairly a bit, which may help out loads in massive area dungeons full of good loot. Simply speak to your companion and ask to commerce, then shove all of the plastic cups and crappy weapons into their stock so you’ll be able to promote all of it later.

And, if all else fails, use chems or booze to quickly increase your capability

Maybe you’ve achieved all the things above and but nonetheless end up carrying an excessive amount of junk. Effectively, that’s why I like to recommend retaining some whiskey or different chems readily available, as utilizing them can enhance your carrying capability.

Needless to say these are simply momentary options and gained’t final endlessly. However they’ll, in a pinch, assist you to cease being overencumbered simply lengthy sufficient to fast-travel and promote all of your junk.